JUVENILE MUSIC. Furnished for this work by LoWELL MASON, Professor in the Close of Sabbath School. Now is done the time of teaching, Ended is the hour we love; Precious Sabbath! Precious Sabbath! Swiftly, Oh! they swiftly move. 兼 Still the voice of friends beseeching, Us to seek for joys above. D.c. b 2 Wake, then, every tender feeling! On the sacred Sabbath-day. Soon our Sabbath's will be ended, We must see the grave at last. Then may heaven be beaming o'er us, Where the Sabbath knows no night. AUBURN STATE PRISON. THE last report of this prison, recently put into our hands by a friend, contains some interesting statistical facts relative to the influence of the penitentiary system there adopted. Says the Chaplain, I have examined all the letters ever received at this prison, in answer to inquiries respecting discharged convicts, and find the whole number reported is 449.' Of these, according to the accounts given in the letters, 78 are unreformed, -3 deranged,―63 somewhat improved,-76 much improved,—and 229 decidedly reformed, and sustaining good characters. Only about one-sixth remain unimproved, while more than one half go out decidedly reformed, and become good citizens.' Forty three have been ascertained, without any general inquiry, to be consistent professors of religion. Moral and religious instruction holds a prominent place in the system of this prison. The Sabbath school, taught by the members of the Theological Seminary, now embraces two hundred of the convicts. From an individual examination of 747 prisoners, embracing the number in prison on the first of August last, and all who have been committed since, it appears that four had received collegiate education,-8 academical,-221 common,-311 very poor education,-203 could not read the Bible. Of the 747,-561 were intemperate,-177 temperate drinkers,-9 total abstinents, -283 had intemperate parents or guardians,-248 left their parents, or were left orphans, under sixteen years of age,-26 had attended Sabbath school previous to conviction,-27 had been habitual readers of the Bible,-88 had committed the decalogue to memory and 12 had been conscientious observers of the Sabbath. These facts will afford the Christian and philanthropist a subject for much reflection. They develope the intimate connection there is between ignorance and crime, intemperance and crime, and a bad parental example and crime. And they show too the moral power there is in the gospel in preventing crime, and even in reclaiming the vicious and the abandoned. FOURTH OF JULY. LAST year several Schools were greatly enlarged, by a general visitation of all the families within the limits of the parish, on the FOURTH of July. Large committees were chosen who employed the day in presenting the claims of Sabbath schools in every dwelling, and in inviting every man, woman and child to become a member. Wherever this experiment was tried, the results were most happy. Classes of adults were formed, and children and youth from the high-ways and hedges were ' compelled to come in,' and the committee themselves, from these very efforts, were made more active and faithful teachers. Among the families visited last July, in—, was one consisting of parents and fourteen children. None of them at tended the Sabbath school, though efforts had often been made to secure their attendance. This visit, however, proved successful in gaining the permission of the parents to let some of the children go. Soon they became more and more interested in the school. A new child was fitted out every Sabbath, till most of them were enrolled as members. Those parents and several of their children are now hoping in the mercy of God. Wherever the teachers can be collected to consult on this subject, previous to the 4th, we hope they will appoint their committees, district their towns and send out the invitation to all, Whosoever will, let him come' and partake of the rich provisions furnished by this institution. Where this cannot be done, individual teachers, whose hearts are burning with a desire to do good, might go forth two by two, or even singly, and, on this day of our nation's independence, they may scatter seed which may spring up and bear fruit to the glory of God and their own everlasting joy and rejoicing. The number of Sabbath school celebrations will be much greater the present, than any former year. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE SOCIETY. Mary Inglis, the Beloved Domestic. Mary Inglis was the daughter of indigent, but very pious parents. At an early age her father died and she was taken into a rich, irreligious family, to aid in the nursery. She was remarkably conscientious and had great reverence for the Bible, and the Sabbath, and was punctual in repeating her morning and evening prayers and hymns, and greatly interested in teaching them to the children of whom she had the care. During Mary's progress from the nursery to the rank of first domestic in the kitchen, many things of interest, both in her own character and that of her mistress and the other domestics who were constantly changing, are developed. She maintained her integrity, tenderness of conscience, fidelity, and boldness in reproving whatever she saw that was wrong, although she was associated, at different times, with domestics that were unfaithful, fraudulent, deceptive, and hypocritical.-Mary, at length, became decidedly pious and made a profession of religion. She secured the utmost confidence of her mistress and was deservedly regarded as a beloved domestic. She was in strumental, by her consistent Christian life, of producing a great change in the religious feelings of the family. At length, as a reward for her fidelity, she was taken from the kitchen, and, after suitable praparations, was placed at the head of an Infant school, and was ultimately married to a respectable, wealthy Gentleman. Although every one who imitates the example of Mary Inglis, may not attain to so high a rank in society, yet she may secure the confidence, respect and affection of all who know her.-Every lady who is dependent on the services of domestics, will do well to read this little volume, and present a copy to each individual under her employ.-It is believed that the general circulation of this book will have an important influence in increasing the number of those who will sustain the character of BELOVED Domestics. The Lollards: containing an account of Wickliffe, Jerome of Prague, Huss, and other eminent Persons; with sketches of church history during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries: being the Eleventh Vol. of the Sabbath School Church History. By Harvey Newcomb. FRONTISPIECE TO "THE MODEL FAMILY." SABBATH SCHOOL VISITER. VOL. III. AUGUST, 1835. NO. 8. CHOICE OF COMPANY.-No. II. SUCH, as described in our first article, is the influence under which every person, but more especially every young person is living, a kind of leading-string by which his footsteps are guided. But every youth, every child should bear in mind that it is optional with him to what hands he will entrust the string. Nobody can compel you to put all to hazard by being intimate with the thoughtless and wicked. No one can force you to sit in the seat of the scorner; to be the companion of fools. If you are so and are destroyed, remember it was the choice of your own heart which placed you in this way to hell. There may be difficulties in the way of your enjoying such society as would, in all respects, be preferable. Your standing in community or your location, may shut you away from valuable privileges, or expose you to peculiar dangers. But no situation can make it necessary for you to cast in your lot among those who have no regard for God. You may refrain from going in the way of transgressors, you may "avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it and pass away," even though there is not a pious associate for you in your neighborhood. There is no condition so disadvantageous, but that individuals have risen from it to a high point of intellectual and moral worth; and certainly there are no circumstances so depressing that there is no pathway from thence to glory, and honor and immortality. Several incidents will illustrate this remark. THE ABANDONED INFANT. An infant was found, one morning, in a basket on the door-step of a house in one of the cities of New England. Abandoned by his natural protectors and thus cast on the cold charity of the world, he was trained up as a menial, despised even by the vulgar and the poor. Yet in his VOL. III. 15 |