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May we say to the readers of the YOUTH'S MAGAZINE, in an age when it is especially true that knowledge is power, determine, in strength from on high, to KNOW NOTHING AMONG MEN, SAVE JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.

So we bid you a loving farewell!

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MY YOUTH'S BEST FRIEND.

SUCH was the salutation of Mary F, as she tenderly embraced her widowed mother. She had been a loved and only child. They had lived together for many years in blessed and growing confidence; but now the day was come which was to separate them. Mary was affianced to a man of kindred spirit, and was about to venture from under the maternal wing upon new and untried scenes. Her heart was full to overflowing, and she sought relief, where she had ever found it,-on her mother's bosom. That mother was, as usual, ready to receive her. She had risen betimes, and after commending herself and her children to the care of her Heavenly Father, with emotions peculiar to the occasion, she had been penning a few lines to her daughter, ready to put into her hands at the moment of her departure. We subjoin the leading paragrahs :

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"My own precious Mary,-What shall I say to you, that I have not already said? He who knows my heart, knows that I have sought, however feebly, to train you for His service and glory. You are the child of many prayers, and much may well be ex pected of you; but never forget the Saviour's words,

Without Me, ye can do nothing.' Live, my child, in habitual fellowship with Jesus. Let Him still have the first place in your affections, and recollect that other friends and other objects can only be

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