which you had so long anticipated, disappointe your expectations; and as for the cathedral, i was not to be seen at all. Thus, when we ar permitted to reach the height of our wishes, th result is sure to disappoint us. Our imagina tions had painted it too gaily; and our chief sa tisfaction arises, not so much from the success of our scheme, as from some simple circumstance attending it, like the fine glowing sun-set, which was unthought of in our calculation.

You were cheered by the sudden fineness of the evening, and the late accomplishment of your hopes; but, like the chastened tranquility of age, your cheerfulness was of a very different character from the lightsome, joyous spirits of the morning.

After all, though you had some entertainment upon the whole, yet, if you had the offer of going over the same events to-day, you would not feel disposed to accept it. Now, this is what I, and every one, I believe, of my age, must say of our day's pleasure. Could our youth be renewed like the eagle's: yet we should decline the offer, if it must be upon the condition of living over again all the vicissitudes and anxieties, all the sorrows and sins of the past. Wearied even with pleasure, you were glad to set off on your return home. The evening was chilly and dark : and you were more disposed to sleep than to converse. This, as you see in your poor old grandfather, is not unlike the condition and infirmities of old age.

Thus far our comparison is pretty exact: and well will it be for us if it need not stop here! The sight of home at last, gave you, perhaps,

more true pleasure than any thing you had seen in the day. And there are some who can say the same of the long home to which they are hastening. All are, more or less, weary of life ind need rest; yet, how many shrink from, and at last come short of it. You had a kind father to receive you, and a comfortable home; and the companion you dropped at the commencement of your journey, was ready to welcome your return. And if it should be thus with us at the end of the day of life, it will signify little indeed, what accidents befall us by the way. "In our Father's house are many mansions.' There is a rest remaining for the people of God." And there, many dear friends who are gone before await our arrival. They regret not that they were stopped short in their course, but, like your friend, rejoice that they got safe home so early, and thus escaped all the misfor

tunes of the road.

Your day's pleasure is now over; and you all feel that the little accidents which disconcerted you yesterday are of no consequence at all to-day. You can now smile at its misfortunes; and as for its pleasures they are past, and are now nothing to you. But suppose you had found no

home to return to; or an uncomfortable one, exposed to the weather, and filled with bad quarelsome company! Of how much greater value the smallest convenience and comfort you enoy here, because it is to last for years, than all he pleasures of that one day put together! Or uppose that from morning to night it had been ne continued storm; suppose you had not been able to reach the place of your destination at all;

that many instead of one of your company h been left behind ;-that your carriages had be broken down, and every other misfortune h befallen you that can be imagined :—what the your day's pleasure would have been spoiled, is true; but it was only a day, and now all over. Now, this is just the state of the case wit regard to time and eternity; only the compar son falls far short of the truth. They who, de voted to the pleasures of this life, take no care to ensure an entrance into that rest, act infinite ly more unwisely than you would have done, i for the sake of enjoying that one day's recrea tion, you had left your house to be overrun with robbers, or destroyed by fire; knowing, that upon your return at night, you would have no shelter, no home, no father to receive you.

But is it true, that our youthful hopes are so fallacious, that there are so many drawbacks to our pleasure, and that there is so large a mixture of pain? What does this teach us?-first, not to give life a wrong name: after all, it is not a day of pleasure, but of business. We came into life not to please ourselves, but to do the will of Him that sent us; and especially, "to work out our salvation with fear and trembling." Again, we should learn hereby "not to set our affections on things below :" it is to teach us this lesson, which we are slow to learn, that so many trials are allotted us. Our Heavenly Fa ther does not willingly afflict and disappoint us. He does it in mercy, to wean us from the world to which we cling. We should also learn by the disappointments attending our schemes, not to desire to order our own lot in life; since we can

ary foresee how they will succeed, nor what will ad bet promote our welfare. Let us leave it to ne h, who sees the end from the beginning, and at the will then cause" all things to work together bile our good." Above all, let us learn to care vas for the things of time, and more for those se eternity. Do not our years pass like “a tale mat is told?” "Let us therefore fear, lest a 10. omise being given us of entering into His rest, 10y of us should seem to come short of it."

Thus grand-papa concluded his discourse; hich, thinking it might prove instructive to -ethers as well as to ourselves, I have, as I promsed, transcribed it for the perusal of the reader.

V.

FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER.

"Be clothed with humility," and have "the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.",

THIS is the most graceful, becoming, and, at the same time, novel costume that has ever solicited public patronage. The mantle is of the most exquisite hue and delicate texture ; tastefully decorated with the above-mentioned costly brilliants; and will be found to unite every advantage of utility and elegance. This dress is suitable to all seasons, and is considered equally becoming to the young and the old. It posses

ses extraordinary durability; is less liable to take a soil than any other material, and retains its freshness and novelty to the last. It falls over the person in the most graceful folds; and is so adjusted as to veil every blemish, and set off the least favorable figure to the best possible advantage. The color usually preferred for this costume is invisible green, which casts the most delicate shade upon the whole form, and produces an effect indescribably agreeable and preposessing. Nothing can be more tastefully imagined, than the ornament with which this mantle is finished; and although this jewel is pronounced by the best judge to be of immense value, it may be obtained upon very reasonable terms. It is so delicate in hue, and so chaste and simple in its workmanship, that it has been mistaken, by unskilful observers, for an ordinary pebble: but connoisseurs instantly recognize it, and allow it to be "more precious than rubies." Notwithstanding the many recommendations it possesses, this dress has never become common, although universally approved. It was once worn as a royal robe, and has ever since been held in high estimation and general use, among the subjects of the great prince who first introduced it.

The figurative language of the Bible will always allow of the most plain, and practical interpretation. When our Lord, for instance, relates the parable of the merchantman seeking goodly pearls, who sold all that he had to obtain one of great price, we are not to regard it as an entertaining fable. Its meaning is plainly this, that