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CHARITY.

I Cor. xiii.

CHARITY decent, modest, easy, kind,

Softens the high and rears the abject mind;

Knows with just reins and gentle hand-to

guide

Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride.

Not soon provok'd, she easily forgives,

And much she suffers, as she much believes ;

Lost

peace she brings, wherever she arrives,

She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even,
And opens in the breast a little heaven.

Each other gift which God on man bestows,

Its proper bounds and due restriction knows,

To one fixt purpose, dedicates its power,

And finishing its act, exists no more.

Thus in obedience to what heaven decrees,

Knowledge shall fail and Prophecy shall cease;

But lasting Charity's more ample sway,

Nor bound by time nor subject to decay,

In happy triumph shall for ever live,

And endless good diffuse, and endless praise

receive.

Life in Death.

Her Saviour calls, he sends his high behest—

The shining ones now beckon her to come,

And Mary soars up to the heavenly Mount,
Leaving the tenement of clay behind.

No more we see the animated frame,

The sparkling eye, the aspect mild and sweet.

All, all, is dreary and no movement seen

In form once lovely, Deity's fair shrine:
But lives th'imperishable spirit still.
Now ever bright and fair, see Mary rest
Beneath the shade of yon perrenial tree,
That's ever verdant in the climes of bliss.

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MEMOIR OF MISS PODMORE.

See yon angelic group, they welcome her

To heavenly mansions: they lead her on

Through the adoring crouds, to the Empyreal

throne

Of radiancy divine and unveiled glory

But Ah! not eye can see, nor ear can hear,
Nor can the mind of mortal man, conceive
What heavenly spirits without end enjoy.
Here clouds and shadows intercept our view,
And we by faith must walk, in love adore,
Till ends our suffering and the conflict's past—

Then the cross-bearer wears th'immortal Crown.

J. H.

Howarth & Slater, Printers, Knutsford.

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Page 30 line 20. This led to a project of a Missionary Bazaar, which was followed by that at Altrincham and then by the magnificent one at Manchester. The Misses Beecroft of Great Budworth had set the first example.

Page 79. The interrogatory and expository system is far preferable to the common mode and is particularly adapted for Sunday-Schools, but how few can and will practice it.

Page 82. At the bottom, read-She was not yet entered into that state she had conceived, as is remarked by her in a note subsequently written.

Page 95. They can not awaken those emotions, which man having himself felt, knows how to excite-the chord of sacred' sorrow having been touched in his own soul.

ERRATA.

p. 59 The eight lines should run on without a break.

p. 67 1. 23. For equal-read usual.

p. 89. Read-and e'er I take another step, I

now consecrate &c.

p. 95. For choir, read chord.

p. 117 1. 15. Read absorbed.

p. 122. Should be, 'How happy &c.'

p. 143.

Read-To use her own expression:
'Like a butterfly &c.'

p. 145. Begin the paragraph with-The general character &c.

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