"Lord, here we are, send us," and of you I would hope that whenever the probability is, that you shall be employed at home. and wherever you are, the cause of Missions will find in you zealous and devoted advocates. Let not your advocacy, however, be the cold, formal, and didactic information whatever you do in this matter, do it heartily; and rest assured you will never find the people under your care indifferent to your appeals. If you undertake the charge of a congregation where there seems so little life that you fear to ask their assistance in the cause of Missions, you may be certain that all your fears will be realized. But if with a determination to know fully, and to preach nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, you combine what should always accompany such a resolution, the demand that they who have received benefit from the word of life should assist in imparting it to others, you will not be disappointed every disciple of Christ will join you, and even those who are strangers to him will acknowledge the justice of the principle on which you act, and respect you as consistent. Mr. Leslie had written thus far, when he was called to take his departure from our shores. The Missionary. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE REV. THOMAS LESLIE AS A MISSIONARY TO JAMAICA. "MR. LESLIE has broken new ground, being the first Missionary to the Heathen from the Synod of Ulster. He departs from among us with a pure and elevated character-he goes with the prayers and sympathies of the church-and the confident expectation is that, under the blessing of God, his services will be faithful, persevering, and successful."-Orthodox Presbyterian. 1 AROUSE thee, our Zion! be girt in thy strength, And one of thy sons goeth forth to the war. He goeth in weakness, yet goeth in power; "In lands far away, where the star of the West J Our country hath broken the fetter and chain, The hand of the Negro's unfetter'd and free_- Has he look'd to our land has his cry been in vain O no; to his help thou hast hasted away- Thy way lieth far from our Isle of the West; My pray'r goeth with thee, thou true-hearted man-→→→ In the strength of the Lord-by the power of his might And now, when a time of refreshing is come, Shall the youth of our Zion still slumber at home ?- The harvest is plenteous, the reapers are few- As a token of the Christian feeling with which Mr. and Mrs. Leslie were regarded, a number of her sisters in Christ, in Belfast, presented the latter with a very beautiful Copy of the Bible, and Bridges' Exposition of the 119th Psalm In another work also presented to Mrs. Leslie by a Christian friend, the following lines were inserted Thy way lies o'er the lonely deep, siaroo 180 1, Thou leavest many a friend behind, buss ant Devoted woman, may thy soul? brand ap With food sufficient for the work, To which thy heart's allied. A nobler and a holier cause Could never heart engage 16th March, 1835. TEMPERANCE. M [THE following Petition to Parliament, on the subject of Temperance, is in course of being extensively signed in Belfast and the neighbourhood, and we lay it before our readers with an earnest recommendation that they would consider the propriety of addressing the Government in this or similar Petitions. A motion on the classification of public-houses, and the prevention of drunkenness, will be submitted to the House of Commons, on the 9th of April.] To the Honourable, the Commons of the United Kingdom of THAT, as appears in evidence before a Committee of your Honourable House, Drunkenness, with its attendant evils, prevails to an alarming extent throughout the United Kingdom; and that in Ireland, where it presents itself in a most aggravated form, it is caused almost entirely by distilled spirit. It is in evidence before the Parliamentary Committee on Drunkenness, that while in Ireland millions of her people are in a state of most pitiable destitution, MORE THAN SIX MILLIONS STERLING are ANNUALLY EXPENDED ON DISTILLED SPIRIT, chiefly by the POOR; and that as a necessary consequence, poverty, disease, and crime have so increased, that THREE FOURTHS of the abject POVERTY AND CRIME of the country, and ONE HALF of the DISEASE prevalent among the lower orders, are, by competent witnesses, attributed to INTEMPERANCE. The brutalizing influence of distilled spirit, is universally acknowledged: it sears the conscience and hardens the heart; it is a barrier in the way of improvement; and the friends of education, religion, and all benevolent efforts, too often strive against it in vain. It has also been established by the incontrovertible evidence of hundreds of the most eminent medical practitioners, and by very long and extensive experience, THAT DISTILLED SPIRIT IS ENTIRELY USELESS TO PERSONS IN HEALTH, and directly and positively NOXIOUS to the human constitution, body, and mind, so that all use of distilled spirit as a customary beverage, and all sale of it for such a use, is MORALLY WRONG, and CONSEQUENTLY CANNOT BE POLITICALLY RIGHT. It has been further established in evidence, that THE GREAT SOURCE of drunkenness in the United Kingdom, is the sanction given by the influential portion of the community to the customary use of so seductive, powerful, and pernicious an instrument of evil as distilled spirit very many captivating qualities being falsely attributed to it by their precept and example, and very many fatal customs upheld and perpetuated which trained the present generation of drunkards, and which will have another ruined generation ready to occupy their place when they are gone. Your Petitioners deeply regret that the whole of this destructive system has been hitherto sanctioned by the British Legisla ture, which largely participates in promoting the evil, not only by legalizing a traffic MORALLY WRONG, but directly produ cing drunkenness in the ARMY AND NAVY by the distribution of spirit-rations, and the establishment of canteens; while a most pernicious lesson is thus taught, and a most destructive example set to the whole community. Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House immediately to adopt such measures as shall, in the present depraved state of public sentiment and practice, most effectually tend to exclude distilled spirit from customary use as an article of diet, And Petitioners will ever pray.. your WILL YOU BECOME A SUNDAY-SCHOOL, TEACHER?! Are READER, allow me to reason with you. Are you willing to do any thing for Christ? Are you anxious that his kingdom should be promoted, all being converted to it? you anxious about the welfare of the souls of others? If you are, then be a Sunday-School Teacher. It is easy if you will but try. You have only to make the attempt pray 1 and pray for its success. Pray before you begin, and when you have done, and the Lord will bless the attempt. Reader, there is no way in which a young christian can become more useful, than by becoming a Sunday-School Teacher. How easy is it to gather five or six young children togetherto take them into a retired corner of a school-room, apart from the rest-and in the presence of God only, teach them one by one the precious truths of the bible. You there may direct their young minds to the command of the God that made them, to the death and righteousness of the Son who gave himself for them, and to the teaching of the Holy Ghost, who worketh in them to will and to do. of his good pleasure. " Reader, you may become more successful with the young than ministers of the Gospel are with the old. Ask them and they will tell you how very difficult it is to make an impression upon their minds how very hard it is to lead them to God. You, on the other hand, have the tender branch to train, and the pliant twig may be easily bent. Now is the time when they may be taught, and to you is offered the important, the delightful task. If you refuse, there may be five or six little children whose education may be neglected, from the want of a teacher, and who may grow until the devil has ensnared them in the cares and the vanities of life, and they have become hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Reader, if Christ be the captain of your salvation, you are bound in duty and in gratitude to fight under the banner of his Gospel. The world is fighting against Christ-the flesh is at enmity to his cause-and Satan, with all the powers of darkness, is endeavouring to gain the victory over the church. And will you sit still while such important interests are at stake, and when Christ is calling on you to defend the battlenients of his church? And what are its battlements? They are the young. If they be preserved, the church will be triumphant. If they be surrendered to Satan, we shall in vain attempt to drive Satan from its camp. Up, then, and be doing while you have an opportunity, another call may never come. But you will say I am not qualified to be a teacher. We answer, try-there is more difficulty in the prospect than the attempt; and, besides, it is not necessary that you should be already qualified the only question is, are you willing to do what you can ? Means are provided for qualifying you if you be willing to learn. The only qualification which is at present necessary, is a willing and humble desire to do any thing for |