JUVENILE MUSIC.

Furnished for this work by LowELL MASON, Professor in the Boston Academy of Music.

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THE teachers in one of the Sabbath schools in New York, passed a resolution that no impenitent teacher should belong to that school, without being made a subject of special prayer. The Superintendent says that no impenitent teacher, since that resolution was adopted, has been able to remain six months in school without being converted.-Has not this subject been too much overlooked? Have those teachers who are untaught by the Holy Spirit, been sufficiently borne on the hearts of the pious?

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE SOCIETY.

THE LOLLARDS.

THIS volume we announced last month. It contains 200 pages, and gives a brief sketch of the state of the church in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, with notices of Greathead, Bishop of Lincoln, John Wickliffe, Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and other eminent persons of those times. Cobham, Huss, and Jerome fell martyrs to the bloody system of popery. Some examples of piety among the Catholics of that age, are given; but a large portion of the book is occupied with the history of the Lollards, the followers of Wickliffe, including accounts of their most crue persecutions, sufferings, and even the death of multitudes of them, by the papists.

This book is well written and will compare with the other interesting works furnished for the Society, by Mr. Newcomb. It is highly seasonable. It will give our children right notions respecting the nature and tendency of the Catholic religion, at a time when all ought to understand this subject. It shows, clearly, that, as this religion claims to be infallible, it must be the same now, and in the United States, as when it filled all Europe with the blood of the saints. It gives good instruction as to the feelings we should cherish towards the Catholics. They have acted consistently with the principles of their religion. It is these principles then,-their system that we must abhor, while we pity and pray for those who have embraced it.-We hope this volume, together with all those on Church History published by the Society, will be studied, with great care, by all the members of our Sabbath schools.

A young lady whose mind had been aroused to think of her spiritual state, and who was watched over with intense anxiety by Christian friends, was requested to pass an afternoon with some pious companions who designed to spend the season in religious conversation and prayer. But the same day a proposal was made to her to ride a few miles and call on some relatives she had never seen. The latter proposal was accepted. The family on whom she called were gay people of the world, she returned with her head filled with plans of dress and pleasure-she had no longer any ear for serious subjects, and she has lived unmoved through powerful revivals and scenes of most solemn and affecting admonition from the death of near friends.

This youth only said to the Holy Spirit "Go thy way for this time, when I have a convenient season I will call for thee." And how did she say it. By her choice of companions for a day, for an hour.

ABUSE OF THE SABBATH

The son of a professor of religion in affluent circumstances, began about the age of fifteen to be intimate with a circle of youth who were remarked for their thoughtlessness and lightness of behavior on the Sabbath. They devised various methods of passing away, what they thought, the dull hours of worship. They used their penknives, read fragments of newspapers and committed little impositions upon their seat-mates. In all this he soon learned to be foremost, and gloried in his freedom from superstition. He arrived at manhood and entered the family state, but, heedless and reckless in his character, he was uncomfortable to his friends, and quickly squandered the inheritance he had received from his father. He forsook his family and

some few years after was seen by an acquaintance who visited one of our southern cities, in a state of abject and haggard poverty. He has not been heard from since, and doubtless ere this, he has died, a sad witness to the danger attending an unwise choice of companions.

The facts I have mentioned in this and my former numbers, have been gathered in a comparitively narrow sphere of observation, and by one whose life has not been long They are but a specimen of many which recollection might supply, illustrating the subject we have considered; and those who have numbered more years and taken wider views, could bring a cloud of concurring witnesses.

But very far aside has it been from the object of these remarks, to lead you to suppose yourself too good to associate with any of your acquaintances. It is not pride which will secure you from any of the dangers which beset your path in this world of snares, for a haughty spirit goeth before a fall. You may be affable and kind to all around you while you are firm in declining any intimacy with those, whether high or low, whose example would be corrupting. You may perform for those among whom Providence has placed you, every office dictated by the law of love, and yet never join them in any thing which conscience and God would not approve. You need never slight, or treat with contempt, those to whom you do not open your heart, and whom you cannot encircle with your choicest affections. But the solemn consideration that the chords of your soul will be tuned for the songs of the redeemed or the wailings of the world of wo, by the influences of the touches to which they are accustomed to vibrate in this world, should induce you, in the morning of life, most firmly to resolve and most watchfully to keep the resolution, 'that you will be a companion of those that love God's law.'

A. B. H.

VALUE OF THE BIBLE.-NO. IV.

The Bible incites to high degrees of Mental action.— How many of the best and noblest of the sons of men have labored and studied untiringly to understand and elucidate this volume! They esteemed it their highest privilege as well as duty. How many numbers of the Visiter, think you, would suffice to give à catalogue, merely, of invalua