Fond mourner! be that solace thine!
Let Hope her healing charm impart,
And soothe, with melodies divine,
The anguish of a mother's heart.
O, think! the darlings of thy love,
Divested of this earthly clod,
Amid unnumbered saints above,
Bask in the bosom of their GOD.

Of their short pilgrimage on earth
Still tender images remain ;

Still, still they bless thee for their birth,
Still filial gratitude retain.

Each anxious care, each rending sigh,

That wrung for them the parent's breast, Dwells on remembrance in the sky,

Amid the raptures of the blest.

O'er thee with looks of love they bend;
For thee the LORD of life implore;
And oft from sainted bliss descend,
Thy wounded quiet to restore.
Oft, in the stillness of the night,
They smooth the pillow of thy bed;
Oft, till the morn's returning light,
Still watchful hover o'er thy head.

Hark! in such strains as saints employ,
They whisper to thy bosom peace;

Calm the perturbéd heart to joy,

And bid the streaming sorrow cease.

Then dry, henceforth, the bitter tear;
Their part and thine inverted see ; —
Thou wert their guardian angel here,
They guardian angels now to thee.

THE memory of the sainted dead hovers, a blessed and purifying influence, over the hearts of men. At the grave of the good, so far from losing heart, the spiritually minded find new strength. They weep, but as they weep they look down into the sepulchre, and behold angels sitting, and the dead come nearer, and are united to them by a fellowship more intimate than that of blood.

REV. W. H. FURNESS.

FOR thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

ISAIAH.

TO A SORROWING FRIEND.

WORDSWORTH.

My friend, enough to sorrow you have given,
The purposes of wisdom ask no more;
Be wise and cheerful; and no longer read
The forms of things with an unworthy eye;
They sleep in the calm earth, and peace is there.

A PARENT'S DEATH.

WILLIAM JAY.

THE death of a parent has been useful. His expiring charge has never been forgotten. The thought of separation forever from one so loved and valued, has awakened in the son a salutary fear. Returning from a father's grave, he has met with God, saying, Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father! thou art the guide of my youth?' And the death of the parent has proved the life of the child.

THEY only truly mourn the dead, who enIdeavor so to live as to insure a reunion in COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.

heaven.

O, STAY THOSE TEARS.

ANDREWS NORTON.

O, STAY thy tears! for they are blest
Whose days are past; whose toil is done.
Here midnight care disturbs our rest;
Here sorrow dims the noonday sun.

For laboring virtue's anxious toil,
For patient sorrow's stifled sigh,
For faith that marks the conqueror's spoil,
Heaven grants the recompense to die.

How blest are they whose transient years
Pass like an evening meteor's flight;
Not dark with guilt, nor dim with tears;
Whose course is short, unclouded, bright.

How cheerless were our lengthened way,
Did heaven's own light not break the gloom;
Stream downward from eternal day,

And cast a glory round the tomb!

Then stay thy tears; the blest above

Have hailed a spirit's heavenly birth;

Sung a new song of joy and love,

And why should anguish reign on earth?

THE RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS IN
ANOTHER WORLD.

LESLIE.

THAT every inhabitant of the blissful world will be as much distinguished from all the rest as one man is distinguished from another in this world, is a sentiment fully supported by the word of God. And though John says, that when Christ shall appear, the righteous will be like him; yet that same apostle, in the apocalyptic vision, saw that the righteous and the Saviour were not so much alike but that he could distinguish the Lamb amidst the throng, that he could mark the elders amidst the angels, and that he could know the martyrs amidst the innumerable company. And to this same apostle, along with James and Peter, it was also granted on the mount of transfiguration, to see that there was such a difference between one celestial inhabitant and another, that Moses could be plainly distinguished from his companion Elias.

If, therefore, every heavenly inhabitant is to preserve his own special identity, and if