treasures there. And no treasures are so safe as those which consist in works of grace. They may be but partially enjoyed here; but they shall be enjoyed without interruption through eternal ages. The pious dead "rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."

How pleasing the thought, that every truly good work becomes an imperishable treasure, forever adding to the bliss of heaven. Well might Paul exhort Christians to be "always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know, that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." Christian reader, grace in the heart of Paul led to good works-abundant, self-denying works-works tending to the salvation of men. Does it produce in your heart the same fruits? In him grace made those self-denying labours pleasant. Is such your experience? Since you professed to love Christ, what efforts have you made for his cause? What are you doing now? Do you abound in such efforts? Do you pray for opportunities to do something for the salvation of men? When opportunities offer, do you thankfully embrace them ?-Presbyterian.

A STARLESS CROWN.

"It would be a sad thing to wear a starless crown in heaven."

IF grief in heaven might find a place,
And shame the worshipper bow down,
Who meets the Saviour face to face,
"Twould be to wear a starless crown;

Find none in all that countless host,
We meet before the Eternal throne,
Who once like us were sinners lost,

Can say our influence led them home.

The Son, to do his Father's will,

Could lay his own bright crown aside;
The law's stern mandates to fulfil-
Poured out his blood for us, and died!

Shall we who know his wondrous love,
While here below sit idly down?
Ah then-if we reach heaven above,
There'll be for us a starless crown!

O, may it ne'er of me be said,

No soul, that's saved by grace divine,
Has called for blessings on my head,
Or linked her destiny with mine.

INFLUENCE OF A LOWLY LIFE.

THE characters which attract us most are not always those which are very marked or peculiar-but often those in which the beauty and completeness of the development render it impossible to fix on any one trait which is more prominent than another.

Near the close of the last century there lived in the Isle of Wight, a poor, but pious girl. She lived in obscurity. In obscurity she died. But the story of the Dairyman's Daughter has gone into all the world, and she being dead exerts an influence of which she never dreamed when living.

The influence of such a life-so pure, so gentle-is an intangible thing. We cannot lay our finger upon a single great thing in it, any more than we can touch

the colours of the rainbow, yet as with the rainbow, we are fascinated and lifted above ourselves by the spectacle of so much beauty vanishing into heaven.

THE INFIDEL'S CREED.

1. "I BELIEVE that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and the body the soul, and that after death there is neither body nor soul."

2. "I believe that there is no religion; that natural religion is the only religion, and that all religion is unnatural."

3. "I believe not in revelation; I believe not the Bible. I believe in tradition; I believe in the Shaster, the Vedas, the Koran. I believe not Moses, the Prophets, the Evangelists, the Apostles, or Jesus Christ. I believe in Chubb, Collins, Tolland, Tindal, Bolingbroke, Hume, Voltaire, Volney, and Tom Paine." 4. "I BELIEVE IN ALL UNBELIEF."

THE PIRATE AND THE DOVE.

THE following anecdote is related by Audubon, the celebrated traveller and ornithologist:

"A man who was once a pirate assured me that several times, while at certain wells dug in the burning, shelly sands of a well-known key which must be here nameless, the soft and melancholy notes of the doves awoke in his breast feelings which had long slumbered, melted his heart to repentance, and caused him to linger at the spot in a state of mind which he only who compares the wretchedness of guilt within him with the holiness of former innocence, can truly feel. He said he never left the place without increased fears of futurity, associated as he was, although I believe by force, with a band of the most desperate villains that ever annoyed the Florida coast. So deeply moved was he by the notes of any bird, and especially those of a dove, the only soothing sounds he ever heard during his life of horrors, that through these plaintive notes, and them alone, he was induced to escape from his vessel, abandon his turbulent companions, and return to a family deploring his absence. After paying a hasty visit to those wells and listening once more to the cooings of the Zenaida dove, he poured out his soul in supplication for mercy, and once more became, what one has said to be the noblest work of God-an honest man. His escape was effected amid difficulties and dangers, but no danger seemed to him comparable with the danger of living in violation of human and divine laws; and he now lives in peace in the midst of his friends."

MORE CHRISTIAN WOMEN THAN MEN.

It is generally known that the Church numbers among its members many more females than males. The natural tenderness and simplicity of the female character more nearly resemble the traits of Christ, than the unsoftened, rougher virtues of the other sex. But we think it will surprise many to learn the remarkable disproportion in regard to numbers, that is set forth in the following statement; it is from the pastoral letter of the venerable Bishop Meade, of Virginia. He says:

A most startling and deplorable fact is the immense disproportion between the number of male and female professors of religion. The ministers of God see it and mourn over it, whenever they administer the Lord's Supper. The Bishops do the same when the rites of confirmation are performed. The number of females on these occasions is often double, treble, yea, quadruple that of the males. I have administered the rite of confirmation to thirty persons, only one of whom was a male. I have often done it to a smaller number, when there was not one male. It is to be feared that the disproportion between the professors in the two sexes, is but a just representation of the difference in religious character.