At a stated meeting of the General Committee of the New-York Sunday School Union Society, on Monday the 16th of Feb. 1824, the Board hay ng been requested to express their opinion of the character and usefulness of The American Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, published in this city.

On motion, Resolved unanimously, that this board have witnessed with great satisfaction the commencement of the work above mentioned; that its design has an intimate connection with the prosperity of Sunday Schools; that its past conduct has met their entire approbation; that they have reason to believe it will continue to be a very beneficial auxiliary to the cause in which they are engaged, and that they therefore cordially recommend it to the patronage of the public.

JAMES MILNOR, President.
H. AVERILL, Secretary.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS.

The committee appointed to examine The American Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, now publishing in this city, report, that they have done so with much pleasure and gratification, and do unanimously approve of it, not only on account of the matter it contains, but also of the manner in which it is conducted. As a journal of education, they think it would be a useful book in the family of every person who de sires the religious improvement of his children. They also consider it an excellent medium for circulating Sunday School intelligence, and therefore strongly recommend it to the patronage. not only of every Sunday School Teacher, but of every one interested in religious inThe terms are very reasonable, being but $1 50, per

struction.

annum.

The above report was unanimously Wednesday evening, Feb. 13th, 1824.

HENRY HART.
JOHN P. HAVEN.
STEPHEN KEELER.
JOHN H. HILL.

ANTHONY P. HALSEY.
SAMUEL W. SETON.
THOMAS PRINGLE.
adopted by the Association,

J. B. BRINSMADE, Chairman, p. t.
GEO. A. DWIGHT, Secretary, p. t.

Lines written by the late Princess Amelia of England.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,

I laugh'd, and talk'd, and danc'd and sung--
Proud of my health; of beauty vain;
Thoughtless of sorrow, care,-or pain:

Believing in those hours of glee,
That all the world was made for me.

But when the day of trial came;

When sickness shook my trembling frame:
When folly's gay pursuit was o'er,
And I could laugh and sing no more-
It then occurr'd how sad 'twould be

Were this world only made for me.

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NOTES ON THE SCRIPTURES.

On Ecclesiastes, ch. 12.

Verse 1.-" REMEMBER now thy Creator, in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not; nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."-Those who do not remember their Creator are Atheists, and will receive the same retribution as other infidels. "The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God." Ps. ix. 17, Yet, how few there are who have God in all their thoughts! "The Hence the complaint of the Creator so often reiterated. ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his masters's crib; but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider." Isaiah, i. 3. "Wo unto them who rise early in the morning to follow strong drink, who sit late in the evening that wine may inflame them; and the lyre and the harp, the tabor and the pipe, and wine are their entertainments; but the work of JEHOVAH they regard not, and the operation of his hands they do not perceive." [Isaiah 5th, translated by Lowth.]

Verse 2.-" While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars be not darkened."-This expression represents the dimness of vision in 'old age.-" Nor the clouds return after the rain." This is a beautiful figure for a succession of troubles. Verse 3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble." "In old age the hands and arms, (which are the guards and defenders of this "earthly house") become feeble, VOL. I.

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palsied, and tremulous : "And the strong men shall bow themselves." This expression represents the limbs, bending under the weight of the body. "And the grinders cease because they are few." The teeth, which perform the same office to the food as the millstone to the corn, shall be few, and incompetent to perform it. "And those that look out of the windows be darkened." This represents the decay (and sometimes total loss of) sight.

Verse 4.- -" And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low." This is an allusion to the noise of the hand-mill in grinding the corn for the day: The lips are called the doors of the mouth; and when in old age the teeth fail, the lips are compressed with a singular firmness-a marked peculiarity of age. "And he shall rise up at the voice of the Bird." This probably is meant to express the wakefulness of age" and all the daughters of music shall be brought low." The lungs, the voice, the ears, may be called the "daughters of music ;" for they are the organs employed in the production or enjoyment of it; and are "brought low" in old age. See 2 Sam. xix. 35.

Verse 5." Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high." Every ascent is difficult in old age." And fears shall be in the way." They are full of apprehension of real or imaginary danger; of stumbling, being jostled, or thrown down, "And the almond-tree shall flourish." The almond-tree, covered with its snow-white blossoms, is a beautiful poetic emblem of the hoary head. “And the grasshopper shall be a burden." The lightest thing is a load; he cannot bear a fly to light on him : "and desire shall fail." The desire of sensual pleasures shall fail: "because man goeth to his long home;" to the grave, or to his future and eternal state of existence : "and the mourners go about the streets." This refers to the eastern custom of employing official mourners to wail for the dead, and make lamentations by dress, voice, and gesture, plaintive music, sacred melodies, &c. See 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. and Jer. ix. 17, 18.

Verse 6.-" Or ever the silver cord be loosed." The silver cord represents the spinal marrow the loosing it is the final cessation of its nervous influence, and of all sensibility. "Or