Part 7 (1/2)

Another week is gone, eternally gone! What account can I give to e for my conduct and opportunities? Hassteeds of unretarded tiht, and deed? Oh, hteous, devoted, and holy scarcely are saved, where stall I appear? How do hts, and unprofitable conversation, swell heaven's register? Where is my watchfulness!

Where are my humility, purity, and hatred of sin? Where is s unpractised, unfelt, almost unknown to me How little do I share in the toils, the labours, or the sorrows of the righteous, and consequently how little do I participate in their confidence, their joys, their heavenly prospects? Oh, may these awful considerations drive ent improvement of my precious time, so that I22nd--Sabbath_--When I arose thisI endeavoured to dedicate myself afresh to God in prayer, with a full deterlory, and to spend it in his service

Accordingly, I spent the , and le with the worldly-minded, my devotions and hts unprofitable and vain I attended a Methodist Class- where I felt s Sure I ailant, zealous, and watchful, I shall never reach the Paradise of God Ito bear reproach for Christ's sake, confess him before men, or I never can be owned by hiels

Merciful God! forbid that I should barter away leam of momentary joy, and the empty round of worldly pleasure:

”Help me to watch and pray, And on thyself rely, assured if I23rd_--I have been abundantly prospered in my studies to-day; and have been enabled to maintain an outward conformity in my conduct But alas! how blind to s and exalted honours the Alhty has to bestow Oh, Lord! help me henceforth to be wise unto salvation May I be sober and watch unto prayer! Ah the ree to overcome my besetments, and have this day maintained more consistency in conversation and conduct Still I feel too much deterred by the fear of man, and thirst too ardently for the honours of the world Merciful God! give th, that I may triumphantly overcome and escape to heaven at last!

I shall finish the first book of the Georgics to-day, which is the seventh day since I commenced them I expect to finish them in four weeks froed

My labour is uniforht I have not a25th_--There is nothing like ihty for assistance, protection, and assurance! His past dispensations and dealings with me leave not the least suspicion of his inviolable veracity, and his efficacious promises cheer the sadness, calm the fears of every soul that practically reposes in and seeks after him The truth of this, blessed be God, I have in some race to attain still26th_--I feel a growing indifference to worldly pleasures, and increasing love to God, to holiness, and heaven Entire confidence in a superintending Providence heals the wounded heart of even the disconsolate , and gives the oil of joy for sorrow, and the gar 27th_--This day I attended a funeral; those connected with it were very ignorant; how strikingly this showed to ood education God forbid that I should idle away olden moments Help s!

_Aug 28th_--The labours of another week are ended; during it I have enjoyed ion of Christ dazzles all the ard the happiness of this life, I would embrace its doctrines, practice its laws, and exert29th--Sabbath_--The blessings of the Lord have abundantly surrounded30th_--In observing s that are culpable; and yet, blessed be God, his goodness to me is profuse Help me to watch and pray that I enter not into te 31st_--How reatest part of their tinifies His name that I have decided to be on the Lord's side; how s obtained; what praise enjoyed, through the influence of this religion To God be all the glory!

_Septehts more profitably than on the atoneh his aze on the love of Deity; with profound ae behold a God descending frorace! And while in deep silence his death wraps all nature; while his yielding breath rends the temple and shakes earth's deep foundations;aloft; and fired by this blood-bought theme, enerally close up the labours of the day by writing a short essay or the this I have two objects in view: the improvement of my mind and heart And what could be more appropriate than to close the day by reflection upon God, and heaven, and time, and eternity? No private e and profitable than this Youth is the seed-time of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to coer blessedness One day of humble, devotional piety in youth will add more to our happiness at the last end of life than a year of repentance and hu the ious topics To-day I have chosen the atonehts on it

_Sept 2nd_--I Providence is a constant source of comfort and support to me

_Sept 3rd_--God has blessed me to-day in my studies I have also felt the efficacy of Divine aid Help me still, most merciful God!

_Sept 4th_--In the course of the past week I have experienced various feelings, especially with respect to the dealings of Divine Providence with me; but in all I have had this consolation, that whatever happens, ”the will of the Lord be done” It isI attended church and heard a sermon on Ezekiel xviii 27 When we consider the importance of repentance, its connection with our eternal happiness, surely every feeling heart, andzeal the conditions of salvation, the slavery of vice, the heinousness of sin, the vanity of hulory, and the uncertainty of life

_Sept 6th_--When I laid aside hts to paper, my mind wandered on various subjects, until ainst this is, not to put off to the next moment what can be done in this We should be firm and decided in all our pursuits, and whatever our ht”

_Sept 7th_--The mutual dependence of men cements society, and their social intercourse communicates pleasure If we are called to endure the pains and inconveniences of poverty, possessing this we forget all; and in the pleasant walks of wealth, it adds to every elegance a charion, elevates all the ties of Christian love and mutual pleasure

_Sept 8th_--I have found led with the common crowd, and like others, too indifferent to the subject of all others the chief

_Sept 9th_--We ”cannot serve God and Mammon” May I be fir that ”Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to co our ”calling and election sure,” which closed with these words, ”He that calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” I felt condeence, and resolved, by God's help, to gain victory over my tendency to inconsistencies of life and conduct

_Sept 14th_--I observe men embarked on the stream of time, and carried forith irresistible force to that universal port which shall receive the whole hu crowd, ho are there who reflect upon the design and end of their voyage; surfeited with pleasure, involved in life's busy concerns, the future, with its awful realities, is forgotten and tiround

_Sept, 15th_--In a letter to e, to-day, I said:--It would be superfluous for ave me unspeakable pleasure Your fears with respect to roundless, for Izeal in these all-iht to have For who can estimate the value of a liberal education? Who can sufficiently prize that in which all the powers of the hu extent? What industry can outstretch the worth of that knowledge, by which we can travel back to the rees, and live the lives of all antiquity? Nay, who can set bounds to the value of those attainments, by which we can, as it were, fly frolories of creation; by which we can glide down the streaions of uncreated futurity? My heart burns while I write Although literature presents the highest objects of ambition to the most refined mind, yet I consider health, in comparison with other teift of heaven