Bury my influence with me.
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Bury my influence with me.


Not long since young man, blessed with
wealthy and respectable parentage, who might
have been useful and honored, had he improy-
ed his opportunities, but who had run short
career of vice and dissipation, and by his ex-
ample entced others to ruin--was stretched
upon his dying bed. The lamp of life was
burning feebly in its socket, weeping relatives
were gathered around him. The dying youth,
as if arousing his last energies Of exhausted ma
ture, called upon his attending friends, g am
about to be launched into eternity. Bitterly,
0 bitterly, do regret my sins and follies.
have one request to make before leave you
forever. Soon you will commit me to the op-
en- grave. Q gather up my influence and bu-
ry it with me''


He died, and was buried, but his influence
lives, and not only to the latest generation of
man, bat through eternity TO come it will con-
tinue to operate.


. reader, what is your influence Were
you about TO he launched into eternity, would
you wish TO have your influence gathered up
and consigned to the oblivion Of the tomb
Strive TO live unto God. To him consecrae
your powers, and live for the welfare of your
race: Then, when your unconscious dust
shall lie mouldering in the grave, the influence
you have lef, behind you will go down through
succeeding generations, to redeem, sanctily,
and bless.





Description of the Person of Jesus Christ.
sent by Pubhus Lentuus, President Of Judea,
to he Senate Of Rome.


There lives at this time in Judea, man Of
singular character, whose name is Jesus Christ
The barbarans esteem him prophet, bu, his
!ollowes adore him rs the immediate offspring
ofthe living Con He is endowed with such un-
paralleed virtue as to call back the dead fom
theIr graves, and 10 heal every sort Of disease
elegantly shaped, his aspect amiable and reve-
rend. His ha'r flows in those beautiful shades
which no united colory can match, falling into
graceful curls below the ears, agreeably couch





of his head, like the head dress Of the sect of
NaZarItes. His forehead is smooth, and his
cheeks without spot, save that of lovely red
His nose and mouth are formed with an ex-
quisite symmetry; his beard is thick and sui
table to the hair of his head, reaching li,,le
below his chin and parted in the middle like a
fork his eyes are bright, clear and serene He
rebukes with majesty, connsels with mildness
and persuasive language. His whole address
whether in word or deed, being elegant, grave
and strictly characteristic ofso exalted being;
no man has seen him laugh; but the whole
world has frequently beheld him weep, and so
persuasive are his tears, that the multitude can
not withhold theirs from joining with him. He
is very modest, temperate, and wise. In short,
whatever this phenomenon may be in the end,
he seems at present man of excellent beauty
and divine perleclons, every way surprising
the children of men,


