he must be opposed to everything that is opposed to love. If he is a just and holy being, he must be opposed to all injustice and unholiness; and from the very nature of things he cannot cease his opposition to these principles, so long as a single vestige of them remains in the universe. But if God is infinite, and consequently supreme over all other existences, it cannot be otherwise than that he will finally exterminate and destroy all those principles and influences to which he is necessarily and actively opposed, and over which he has supreme control.

In harmony with this, and with no other conclusion, is the language of the prophet, which we have selected as the motto of the present article. He will rest,-not in the exercise of wrath or hatred towards any portion of his creatures, -not whilst a state of things prevails to any extent to which love stands opposed. If he is a God of love, under these circumstances he indeed could not rest. But he will rest in his love ;" and this plainly implies that in the final state of things, love shall have supreme, unrestricted, and universal sway; and this it could not have unless all sin and suffering were exterminated from the universe, and all intelligent beings rendered holy and forever happy.

And all the operations of the divine government, and especially the influences of the gospel, tend directly to the production of this most glorious result. Ever increasing light is diffused in the moral world by the teachings of Jesus and his apostles. The holy precepts and examples of the Saviour are silently and constantly sending forth an influence among the children of men, winning souls from the contaminations of sin, and causing them to live holily in the love of God and man. And if in the consummation of Christ's reign, he will see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied, and if all enemies shall at length be put under his feet,”—then all things that are from God, and which exist through God, will at length return to God, that he may be ALL IN ALL !—a consummation in view of which archangels might pour forth their highest exultations, and all the hosts of the redeemed shout aloud for joy!

Let grim evil, then, rave and frown upon us; the monster's doom is sealed by the blood of the Redeemer. Its dominion at most is but temporary and evanescent; and beyond its dread realms a holy and happy eternity looms up into spiritual sight.

To this, then, let us look forward. May we ever feel and act as becometh beings to whom belongs this exalted des

tiny. We will not, then, despond when we are afflicted, or behold our brother man reeling under the heavy yoke of sin ; and realizing the transitory nature of these worldly circumstances, our souls' cheering prospect, and our minds' allabsorbing thought will be, ETERNITY, ETERNITY, A HOLY AND BEATIFIED ETERNITY!

TO THE MEMORY OF A BELOVED PUPIL, RECENTLY DECEASED.

BY S. F. STREETER.

WE parted; she, with deep delight,
Thought of sweet home and days of rest;
Her heart was full, her eye was bright,
No dream of ill disturbed her breast.
We parted ;-but to meet no more,
Save in a better land than this;
Her home is on the eternal shore,
Her rest, in realms of endless bliss.

I stood beside the early dead,
I looked upon her placid face;
In every lineament I read

Of truth, and gentleness and grace;
I saw the tears of anguish flow,

heard the mourning mother's sigh;
It told the grief that none can know
But mothers, when their children die.
I stood 'mid the monumental stones,
Beside the narrow resting place;
I heard the Friend, in solemn tones,
Dispense the truths of heavenly grace;
Yet though the peace-inspiring word
Taught my sad soul in God to trust,
With keenest pang, the sounds I heard,
That told of dust returned to dust.

I gaze upon the youthful throng,
As young, as kind, as pure as she,
And sadly think of each,-how long

Before such summons comes to thee?
Yet why repine? for well we know,
That we are God's, and not our own;
And when he bids his children go,

'T is ours to say, "Thy will be done!"
Thus, as our dearly loved depart,

And our long cherished hopes are riven,
We learn, by Death's unsparing dart,
They were but for a season given.
Through pangs of parting, too, we learn
Not on this mortal to rely;

And our oft wounded spirits turn,
And fix their holiest hopes on high!

Take heart, fond mother, then, nor mourn
That thou hast lost thy priceless gem;
That this bright jewel hath been torn
From thy maternal diadem;

Think, when thy soul within thee pines,
And heavy sorrows weigh thee down,
That she, a gem of beauty, shines,
Bright in the Lord of Glory's crown!

Baltimore, Courtland Street, September, 1845.

WIFE VERSUS LADY.

BY REV. GEORGE ROGERS.

"A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one lady."
"Husbands, love your ladies, as Christ also loved the church."

"Wherefore shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his lady."

In ancient times, it would seem, there existed on the part of women toward men a relation called wife. This relation appears to have been one of a close and intimate nature,—so much so, indeed, that it constituted an indissoluble oneness of heart, interest, and fortune between the parties, insomuch as that "the twain became one flesh."

From a diligent comparison of the two things, the writer hereof has been led to think, that, possibly, the wife of that day had a sort of correspondence to the lady of this, and he hence has ventured to substitute the latter for the former, in

the texts which head this article. For example, in ancient times the woman to whom a man was united by the ceremonial of matrimony, became from that union his wife; she now, by the same ceremonial, becomes his lady. A man's wife, moreover, was then the mother of his children, as his lady now is. The wife's relations became the husband's by virtue of the nuptial union, and his became her's, as is now the case with regard to the lady. From these and other points of agreement, the writer feels warranted in assuming that lady is but a modern and less vulgar title for what in former times was understood by the term wife. He is confirmed in this persuasion by the fact, that no married man now-a-days hasa wife, from the king down to the cobbler, but each and every one hath a lady. Seemeth it not clear, then, that lady is but the superfine of wife?

Whether the ancient wife was as pretty as the modern lady,—whether her waist was squeezable into the same pipestem dimensions,-whether her silks and plumes constituted as essential a part of her value,-or whether she was, to the same extent, a subject of ailments and doctor's bills,-these are points which the writer's researches have not enabled him very satisfactorily to solve. It is said, though to modern refinement it would seem scarcely credible,—that the wife used to descend to the vulgarity of knitting and darning stockings, and that she knew how to roast a joint and make apple-dumplings. If this was really so, it would seem that the wife of past days could hardly have been what the lady of modern times is, though she may have been a sort of vulgarized type of her. Certes, however, the wife was a most valuable acquisition to a man, insomuch that the wise monarch of Israel, who would seem to have had a plentiful experience among ladies, testifieth that, "whoso findeth a wife, findeth a good thing. Aha! a wife, indeed; I doubt me whether he would not willingly have exchanged his thousand and more fine ladies for one such good thing, after he had duly tested their comparative value.

Well-a-day! This question of the identity of wife and lady beginneth to prove perplexing as we push it into particulars; and that the interpretation of the one for the other, moreover, may somewhat infract on a rule which is thought to be authoritative in such cases, namely, that a correct interpretation of a word or phrase will bear to be substituted for it in all its applications. This will hardly hold in respect to wife and lady. For example, it will do to say of a woman that such a man made a wife of her; but to say he made a

lady of her would convey a somewhat doubtful significance. So, too, in the marriage ceremony, "I pronounce you hus ́band and lady," would not, perhaps, quite fulfil the intention of the statute. In the parable of the wedding-supper, also, the plea, "I have married a lady, and therefore cannot come,' " would sound oddly enough; one, in such a case, would be inclined to conclude with the wight and say, "Poor fellow, the spell of his lady-mate operated as a sad abridgement of his freedom, and the same should serve as a warning to all unincumbered members of the sex-masculine, to take heed how they peril their liberty by marrying themselves to ladies."

And what, furthermore, are spinsters to do in this case? If lady means wife, then, as they are not wives, so neither can they be ladies. Shall we, then, term them young ladies, for distinction's sake? But how if they are not young ? They, doubtless,-passive, good-natured souls,-would not demur to the being thus termed so long as their memories remained oblivious as to their age; but far down in life, it is said, their recollection marvellously reviveth as to that particular, and after that period their modesty would take alarm at their being termed young. Good faith, the writer begins to doubt if he does not err in supposing a lady a synonyme for wife. When he sees "Ladies' apartment "" over a cabin or parlor-door, he understands thereby not, exclusively, wives' apartment, but an apartment for women in general. But then, when he sees it announced that such and such distinguished men, with their ladies, have arrived at such and such a place, he understands not their women in general to be meant, but certain specific ones, to whom they have been married. This, of course, because distinguished men can have no such intimate connexion with women in general,—of course not.

On the whole, the writer confesseth himself puzzled on this knotty point; he may err, or he may not, in supposing that a man's lady means his wife,—or what in old times used so to be called. If he does not err, then his substitution of the one for the other in the above-quoted texts is correct. If he does err, then, good faith, he has only to express his regret that wives have gone out of fashion, and ladies come in to fill their places. So endeth his chapter on the subject.