heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters." I felt relieved-why, I cannot telland I have found it impossible to bring back the distress which weighed me down before. I am sometimes afraid the Spirit of God is leaving me, and I am becoming stupid. But I have nothing to say. Whatever God may do with me, he is righteous-his law is holy, just, and good, and must be approved of by every good being in the universe.

P. Do I understand you right? Do you mean to say that the justice of God would be perfectly vindicated in your eternal condemnation.

I. I do. I have no doubt of it-I am so great a sinner-I have sinned so long, against so much light and knowledge.

P. But how is this? It was only yesterdy you could not see how you were so very criminal for remaining in the state in which you were born, and were strongly inclined, as I thought, to throw the blame upon Adam.

I. Ah, that was my folly-my guilt, rather. I wanted some excuse for holding out against God, and was ready to take up with any thing I could find. I now see, as plain as day, that I was totally wrong. What have I to do with Adam's sin, in the settlement of this great controversy between God and my own soul? It is for my own sins that God threatens to punish me for ever

and ever, and I have come to the conclusion that it will be time enough to trouble myself about being condemned for Adam's sin, when I have none of my own to be troubled about, and to repent of.

P. I rejoice to hear you express yourself as you do; but remember, my dear young friend, that conviction is not conversion. Have you repented? Do you loathe and abhor yourself as a sinner? Feeling your own ruin and helplessness, have you cast yourself upon Christ as an all-sufficient Saviour? Do you renounce all dependance upon your own merits, and your own doings, for pardon and justification? These are great questions, and it is infinitely important that they should be rightly settled. "He that believeth shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.”

I MUST PRAY MORE.

I HABITUALLY feel this necessity, but the other day the conviction came to my mind with strange power, and I said with greater emphasis than ever, I must pray more. It struck me with indescribable wonder that so little time should be employed, and so little energy expended in prayer, even by those who are prompt to acknowledge its dignity as a privilege, and its efficacy as a means of obtaining good. It is not now as it

was in patriarchal times. We do not pray as Jacob did. He wrestled until the breaking of the day. Yes, his praying was wrestling, and it lasted all night. We put forth no such power in prayer, and we do not allow the repose of our nights to be interrupted by it. It is not because our wants are all supplied that we are so feeble and brief in prayer—nor is it that God's bounty is exhausted. We are as poor as creatures ever were, and He as rich and munificent as ever. His hand is not shortened, neither his ear heavy.

Only think how small a portion of each successive day is spent in prayer. I wonder if any Christian ever thought of it without being so dissatisfied as to resolve that he would spend more time in praying the next day. Just add together the minutes you daily occupy in supplication, and the kindred exercises of devotion, scriptural reading and meditation, and see to what it will amount. Will the sum total be one hour? What! less than an hour a day in devotion ?—not one twenty-fourth part of time! And is this all which can be afforded?

Is there anything attended by a purer pleasure than prayer? One who knew, said, "It is good for me to draw nigh to God," and again, "It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant and praise is comely." All the exercises of devotion are as full of pleasure as they are abundant in profit.

But prayer is not only a means of getting good.

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It is such a means of doing good, that I wonder our benevolence does not lead us to pray more. We are commanded, as we have opportunity," to do good unto all men. Now prayer affords us the opportunity of being universal benefactors. Through God we can reach all men. We can make ourselves felt by all the world, by moving the hand that moves it. In no other way can we reach all. Prayer makes us, in a sense, omnipresent and omnipotent. It prevails with Him who is both.

The world needs your intercessions. It lies in wickedness. Zion needs them. She languishes because few pray for her peace; few come to her solemn assemblies. Whose family needs not the prayers of its every member? Who has not kindred that are out of Christ? With such a call upon us for prayer, so urgent and from so many quarters, I wonder we pray no more.

I must pray more, for then I shall do moremore for God, and more for myself; for I find that when I pray most, I accomplish more in the briefer intervals between my devotions, than when I give all my time to labour or study. I am convinced there is nothing lost by prayer. I am sure nothing helps a student like prayer. His felicitous hours-his hours of most successful application to study, are those which immediately follow his seasons of most fervent devotion. And no wonder. Shall the collision of created minds with each other produce in them a salutary ex

citement, and shall not the communion of those minds with the infinite intelligence much more excite them, and make them capable of wider thought and loftier conceptions.

I must pray more, because other Christians, whose biography I have read, have prayed more than I do.

God is disposed to hear more prayers from me than I offer and Jesus, the mediator, stands ready to present more for me.

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If I pray more I shall sin less.

I will pray more. The Lord help me to fulfil this resolution.

ESSAY ON REVIVALS-continued.

(By Rev. Dr. Goodrich, of America.)

In the year 1802, in answer to long-continued and fervent prayer, the Holy Spirit was poured out in a remarkable manner on Yale college, then under the presidency of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, D.D. As a work of this kind, in a seat of learning, will naturally be regarded with peculiar interest, I shall here transcribe (with some slight abridgement) an account of this revival, drawn up at the request of the writer, by the Rev. Noah Porter, D.D. who was then a member of the institution. "The grace which some of the students had witnessed, and of which they were all informed, in churches