BAXTER.

Not only our old acquaintance, but all the saints of all ages, whose faces in the flesh we never saw, we shall there both know, and rejoice in knowing.

BISHOP HALL.

If the three disciples in Tabor knew Moses and Elias, how much more shall we know them in God's Sion? Comfort you with this, we shall know, and be known.

DWIGHT.

Our Saviour informs us, that “ many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God, with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob." In order to a complete fulfilment of the intention of this promise, it seems necessary that the persons here spoken of should know these patriarchs. Lazarus, Abraham, and the rich man, are all exhibited in the parable as known to each other. Moses also and Elias were known by the disciples, on the Mount of Transfiguration, to be Moses and Elias; one of them embodied, the other an unembodied spirit. From these facts it is, I think, sufficiently evident that mankind will know each other in the future world; and that their bodies will be so far the same, as to become the means of this knowledge.

MATTHEW HENRY.

Holy society is a part of the felicity of heaven. They shall sit down to be feasted; which denotes both fulness of communication, and freedom and familiarity of communion.

ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.

I am convinced that the extension and perfection of friendship will constitute great part of the future happiness of the blest.

PALEY.

Religion disarms even death. It disarms it of that which is its bitterness and its sting, the power of dividing those who are dear to one another.

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the grave; in a new and never-ceasing happiness, in the presence and society of one another.

SCOTT.

Our deceased friends still live, and we shall meet again; though separated from the body, a re-union shall certainly take place.

BISHOP HEBER.

I am convinced that Paley is right in his thirty-fourth sermon, where he lays down, on scriptural grounds, the doctrine that those who loved on earth are to recognise each other in paradise; that as David felt on a similar occasion, you will go to Him, though He cannot come to you; and that every moment passed in patience and submission to the divine will, brings you nearer to Him.

ROBERT HALL.

The pious living and the pious dead are still one family, under one head; and when " He who is their life shall appear," they shall appear together with Him in glory. The friendships which have had virtue and religion for their basis will survive all human ties, outlive the habitable globe, and form, in all probability, a principal part of the happiness of the blessed.

GISBORNE.

Christian friends, reunited in the realms above, shall meet one another with complete and lively consciousness of their reciprocal attachment upon earth; and with such recollections of the incidents of their mortal intercourse, as shall enhance the blessedness of eternity. This is the suggestion of reason; this is the testimony of the Scriptures.

FECUNDITY OF THE ONION.

IT was recently stated that a gentleman in Lancashire had raised 8,000 ounces of onions from twelve ounces of seed; Mr. Crossley, the engineer of the Macclesfield Canal, residing at Bollington, having seen this statement, was induced to weigh his own crop, when he discovered that from two ounces of seed, the produce was the amazing quantity of 2,496 ounces, or 156 pounds; being nearly double the produce of the former in proportion to the quantity of seed sown.

GREAT-HORNED OXEN OF ABYSSINIA.

HERE, for the first time, I was gratified by the sight of the Galla oxen, or sanga, celebrated throughout Abyssinia for the remarkable size of their horns. Three of these animals were grazing among the other cattle, in perfect health; which circumstance, together with the testimony of the natives, "that the size of the horns is in no instance occasioned by disease," completely refutes the fanciful theory given by Mr. Bruce respecting this creature. It appears by the papers annexed to the last edition of Mr. Bruce's work, that he never met with the sanga, but that he made many attempts to procure specimens of the horns, through Yanni, a Greek, residing at Adowa. With respect to the disease which occasions their size, probably derived from their pasture and climate;""the care taken of them, to encourage the progress of this disease;" "the emaciation of the animal," and "the extending of the disorder to the spine of the neck, which at last becomes callous, so that it is not any longer in the power of the animal to lift its head,"-they all prove to be merely ingenious conjectures thrown out by the author solely for the exercise of his own ingenuity.

I should not venture to speak so positively upon this matter, had not I indisputably ascertained the facts; for the Ras having subsequently made me a present of three of these animals alive, I found them not only in excellent health, but so exceedingly wild, that I was obliged to have them shot. The horns of one of these are now deposited in the museum of the Surgeons' College, and a still larger pair are placed in the collection of Lord Valentia, at Arley Hall. The length of the largest horn of this description which I met with, was nearly four feet, and its circumference, at the base, twenty one inches. It might have been expected, that the animal, carrying horns of so extraordinary a magnitude, would have proved larger than others belonging to the same genus; but in every instance which came under my observation, this was by no means the case. The accompanying etching, which was copied from the original

sketch, taken from the life, may serve to convince the reader of this fact; and it will convey a better idea of the animal, than any description in writing I can pretend to give. I shall only farther observe, that its colour appeared to vary as much as in the other species of its genus, and that the peculiarity in the size of the horns is not confined to the male; the female being very amply provided with this ornamental appendage to her fore head.-Salt's Travels in Abyssinia.

MARRIAGE.

How few people consider sufficiently and rightly before they enter into the marriage state!-Some marry before there is any reasonable prospect of providing for a family, and thus bring distress and poverty on themselves and their offspring. Others marry without any serious consideration of the real character of the person who is to be their partner for life. This is a worse error than the first. If there is no Christian principle, there is no security for happiness. We read in Scripture that "the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose." Those persons who had been brought up as the true servants of God, (and therefore called the sons of God) married those who knew nothing of God and religion, (and were therefore called the daughters of men.) They took these young women for no other reason than because they were fair and handsome; and we well know the misery which was thus brought upon them and their families.

Christ performed his first miracle at a marriage feast; and his blessing will be ever with those who seek to enter into the marriage state with hearts truly desirous of serving Him, and earnestly praying for his guidance in every changing scene and circumstance of life. "How honourable, says good Bishop Hall, "must be the state of wedlock, when the Son of God pleases to honour it! Happy is that wedding where Christ is a guest."

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