forever, happy here and happy in yonder world of bliss.  Without religion also, allow me to add, the very beauty and enjoyment, arising from the exercise of these domestic virtues, will prove injurious to your eternal interests.  They will serve to strew with comforts your path leading away from God to heaven.  The powerful influence of a much loved brother is exerted to keep the sister in the path of worldliness; while, in return, the sister’s boundless influence, for in such a family the sister’s influence may be said to be boundless, will all be added to the snares of an ungodly world, to drive the brother onward in his neglect of God and his own soul.  My young friends, seek not only to make those around you happy in this world, but happy forever.  Give thine own heart to Jesus, and thou mayest save thy brother and thy sister, and thou shalt meet them on high.  Refuse to do so, and thou mayest drag these loved ones down with thee to that cold dark region, where affection is unknown and nothing is heard but blasphemies and curses.  Oh, thou kind and loving brother and sister, can ye endure the thought of spending an eternity in cursing each other as the instruments of each other’s destruction?  Christ alone can deliver you from such a woe.

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HABIT.—­“I trust everything, under God,” said Lord Brougham, “to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance; habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from a wonted course.  Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of your lordships.”

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AN APPEAL TO BAPTIZED CHILDREN.

BY REV.  WM. BANNARD.

It is presumed, young friends, that you have reached an age when you are capable of appreciating your obligations, but have hitherto neglected them.  It is proposed, therefore, in what follows, briefly to call your attention to your position and responsibilities.  If you have considered your privileges as the children of pious parents who have dedicated you to God in baptism, you are now prepared to examine your duties.  You have then a name and a place in Christ’s visible church; you sustain covenant relations to God, and these, fraught as they are with manifold benefits, cannot be without corresponding responsibilities.

You are not the children of the world but the children of the covenant.  Solemn vows have been assumed for you, and these vows are binding upon your consciences.  They were taken with the hope and intention that you should assume them for yourselves when you arrived at years of discretion.  You were given to God with the expectation that you would grow up to serve him.  And this it is your duty to do.  You