SERIOUS REFLECTIONS.

PLEASURES OF RELIGION.
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If man can find no enjoyment except
when directly engaged in seeking his own
happiness, his pleasures must be necessari-
ly limited as we'll as selfish. But if with the
love Of God and the love CT man regning in
his heart, he takes delight in rendering O.
theirs happy, his sources of pleasure must
be abundant and perpetual. To cultivate
n spirit of bcncvocncc is at once then our in
tcrcst and our duty. "Look not every man
on his own things" says the benevolent
apostle, "but every man also on the things
Of Others" Remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how he sad, sit is more blessed
to give than receive" Remember the cNi-
gcncies of the poor, of the fricndless, Of the
afflicted, and Of the ignorant; and connect
with their miscrics their claims; their claims
on your commiscration, your time, and pro-
pcrty. Think how many ofyour elbow crca-
lures, with natural susccptibilitics of delight,
not inferior to your own, arc altogether
strangers to your happiness, and destitute OF
the moral AMI divincly prescribed means OF
discovering the way to its attainment Are
not myriads pcrishing for lack of knowledge
Arc you not inthe possession Of the treasures
of Divine Truth by which they may become
"wise unto salvaton," and happy through
unchanging eternity. Remember that he
who winneth souls, to the paths of peace and
glory, is by the highest authority, "wise )"
he is wise in seeking for himself and for O.
Tiers the happiness ofimmortality of for they
who are thus wise "shall hereafter shine
with the brightness of the iirmamcnt, ant
they turn many to righteousness, as the stars
forever and ever" [Bnrder's Lectures.