family, females and all, follow his example. They, too, then walked on the 'solid water,' not less with delight than with amazement.

The valuable instruction of this able and benevolent teacher was productive of the happiest effects on the minds of these two interesting young men. They appeared to receive with cordiality and pleasure the doctrines and precepts of the Holy Scriptures, and urged Dr. Clarke to admit them by baptism to the privileges of disciples of Christ. Their preceptor hesitated for a time, that he might more carefully mark their spirit and conduct. At length, having admonished and instructed them, and commended them in prayer to the Searcher of hearts, he solemnly baptized them in the name of the ever blessed Trinity, on Sunday, May 7, 1820, at the large Brunswick Chapel in Liverpool, in the presence of a numerous and deeply interested assembly. Shortly afterwards, it was determined that they should return to their own country; and, in order to accredit them, the Rev. Dr. Clarke wrote the following letter in testimony of their good conduct, and conversion to Christianity.

"TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

"Adam Sree Goona Munhi Rat'hana, formerly a Teerunanxie, or High Priest of Budha, in the temple of Doodhandhuvé, near Galle, in the Island of Ceylon, was on the 7th May, 1818, with his cousin Alexander Dherma Rama, also a Teerunanxie of the same temple, placed under my care by the Hon. Sir Alexander Johnston, late chief judge of the Island of Ceylon, in order to be instructed in the Christian Faith; and during the space of two years, they have continued

under my roof, and have given such satisfactory proofs of their total change from every species of idolatry and superstition, and thorough conversion to Christianity, that I judged right, on their earnest application, after eighteen months' instruction, to admit them into the Christian Church by baptism; which was administered to them in Liverpool, 12th March, 1820, according to the form of the Established Church of England.

"As they now intend to return to their own land, with the purpose of testifying to their benighted countrymen the gospel of the grace of God, I feel much pleasure in being able to recommend them to the notice of sincere Christians in general, wherever they may come; and especially to all who are in power and authority, both in ecclesiastical and civil affairs, being satisfied of the strict morality and loyalty of their principles, and that they are worthy of the confidence of all who may have any intercourse or connection with them.

Given under my hand, this 7th of May, 1820.

"ADAM CLARKE, LL.D"

They reached the island of Ceylon in safety, where the one is still officiating as a native Christian preacher, and the other as a civil officer of the local government. While in England, they became, under Dr. Clarke's tuition, so well acquainted with the English language, that they made a translation from the English into the Cingalese language of a very beautiful poem, written by Mrs. Hannah More, and set to music by the celebrated composer, Charles Wesley, for the purpose of being publicly sung by the slaves in Ceylon, on the anniversary which was

appointed to be kept by them every year on the 12th of August, in commemoration of that day in the year 1816, after which every child born of slave parents in Ceylon is born free, in pursuance of the resolution passed at the recommendation of Sir A. Johnston by 771 propietors, the entire number of those who held domestic slaves on that island.

SELF-CONSECRATION.

BY JOSIAH CONDER, ESQ

Mihi enim vivendo Christus est, et moriendo lucrum.

GRANT me, Heavenly Lord, to feel
In thy cause a servant's zeal :
More than all to self most near,
May I hold thine honour dear;
Willing to forego my pride,
So my Lord be glorified.

In the conquests of Thy might,
May I loyally delight ;-
In thy ever-spreading reign,
Triumph as my greatest gain.
Make me conscious, by this sign,
Saviour, Sovereign, I am Thine.

THE CHRISTIAN TALISMAN.

"And His name, through faith in His name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know."-ACTS iii. 16.

SUCH, in the gospel's earlier hour,
THE TALISMAN, and spell,
Which, by its own Almighty power,
Wrought many a miracle.

It cleans'd the leper, heal'd the lame,
And on the darken'd sight
Outpour'd, in utterance of that name,
A flood of cloudless light.

The deafest ear it could unseal,
The speechless tongue unchain;

Through faith all sickness it could heal,

And banish every pain.

Sorrow's dark veil it could remove,

Impart-for angry strife-
Peace, meekness, charity, and love-
And raise the dead to life!

Nor has it, in the lapse of time,
Known weakness, or decay;

Could faith-pure, simple, and sublime,
Confess it-and obey.

Though to our grosser, outward sense,

Such fruits no more are shown,

Within its meek omnipotence

By equal proof is known.

The mental eye it still can ope,

The mental ear unclose:

For grovelling fear give glorious hope,
Heaven's joys for earthly woes.

The poor it can make rich within,
The weak-make strong once more;
The dark in error, dead in sin-
To light and life restore!

Oh, heavenly Father! none else can
Such miracle achieve-

In this true Christian Talisman
Compel us to believe!

Since thou hast given thy Son to be
The Light, the Truth, the Way,
Which through the Spirit leads to Thee
For faith in Him we pray!

Grive unto minds by doubt enthrall'd,
Where death and darkness lower---
Spirits by servile fears appall'd-
Faith in His name and power.

For unto hearts by anguish riven,
And souls of sin the slave,
None other is, or can be given

TO COMFORT, or TO SAVE.

BERNARD BARTON.