the repugnance of the savage. The peasants of Denmark rose against kings who violently assisted the collection of tithes, and the Norwegians defeated and slew their king Olaf Haraldsen, vulgarly called St. Olaf, who had committed numberless atrocities in the propagation of Christianity and the extortion of Tithe.-See Laing's Norway cap. 2.

NOTE 2, p. 106.

Its ceaseless care the sabbath doubly blest.

It seems scarcely necessary to mention that we are indebted for the first establishment of Sunday Schools to Robert Raikes of Gloucester. 1781.

NOTE 3, p. 107:

And smiled at length a bleeding Conqueror.

Our victory over the slaveholders was indeed dearly purchased-The defeated party might safely fall back on £20,000,000; and yet I see nothing that should make us repent of the sacrifice. It is confidently asserted (with what degree of truth I know not) that the slave trade is more actively carried on at the present, than at any other former period of its existence. This dreadful assertion, however painfully it may excite our feelings as men, cannot affect our honour or character as Britons. Our hands are clean; the pollution has passed from among us. We neither countenance the traffic in slaves, nor uphold the system of slavery; we resist the one and have abolished the other.

NOTE 4, p. 107.

Each tongue receives the Word, each nation reads.

The unsettled portions of North America, and the coral Islands of the South Sea present a boundless field for the exertions of the Christian labourer. Many have put their hands to the plough, and the lands bring forth fruit in due season. The monuments of their toils are multiplying in broken idols and deserted sacrifices (and may we not venture to add?) in souls renewed and sins forgiven.-See Ellis's Polynesian Researches, passim.

THE

RIGHTS AND GLORY

OF

WOMAN.

THE RIGHTS AND GLORY OF WOMAN.

CAN Woman love, yet discontent profess? Can Woman smile, yet talk of powerlessness? Know half her heart, yet deem such knowledge nought? Think worthily, nor prize the imperial thought ?

Look through her own full depths, and there descry The royal residence of Purity

Yes! feel her heart the holiest shrine save One,

That eager Worship loves and grows upon;
Yet call on justice? yet for glory sigh?

Yet weep the woful weight of tyranny?
And careless of her proper wealth, complain
That Man is master in his own domain?

Would Woman madly deal with God's great plan,

Pretend identity of lot with Man,

Grope o'er the path that shines for him alone,
Distract him on his way, and lose her own ?
In search of equal rights discover strife,
And spoil the holy melody of Life ?—
Derange the strings whose varying tones agree
To breathe one full, surpassing harmony,
Ring out confusion, Earth's best music mar,
And force upon the world an endless jar ?

Can Woman thanklessly esteem a wrong
The kind diversity that makes her strong?
Man loves in Woman the contrasted fate-
The tear, the smile, he cannot imitate,
The soft, pure light, his duller heart must want,
The grace of which his strength is ignorant!
These plead her cause with eloquent effect;
Man feels the magic of the dialect;-
Her helpless modesty the master-spell!

Her tender weakness all-invincible!