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 a6bath Schools ooud have soved me from the gaous

 Gibbs, the pirate, who rose to bad em- thence" by participation in the murder of three or four hundred of his fellow mortals {; and who, according to the demands of jus. tice, recently suffered public execution at New York, was endowed with native tal- ents of high order. His mind, though un- polished by education, would occasionally sparkle with dazzling brilIiancy, in spite of the uncou,h rubbish in which it was envel- oped. "Seldom could find man in any part of the world," said he, "who could compete with me in matters of intellect 1; but ! always felt myself inferior in point of mental cultivation"

 A few days before his execution, Gibbs was visited in his prison by clergyman from his native town. He appeared im- penitent and strikingly indifferent to his fate. He conversed with stubborn compo- sure about the rope, the hangman, and all the apparatus of his inglorious death. Yet now and then, word of regret fell from his lips.

 Had, | been instructed in Sabbath Sch0O!s," said he, they would have sav- ed me from the galows but Sabbath schools were fifteen years too late fo, me. " How came you to know about Sabbath schools 2" inquired his visitant. "Oh, I knew that the religious world was all alive i've found Tracts and Reports on board the vessels which we captured-I read them all."

 "At the age of fourteen," continued he, was almost a Christian. As l sat in the back seat above the singers in the gal- lery of your meeting house, often trem- bled in view ofmy eternal destiny, as des- cribed in the faithful preaching of father

 Here are two things, Mr. Editor, which are worthy of particular attention: first, tho testimony of this condemned culprit in favor of Sabbath schools. Reasoning from a knowledge of human nature, he well knew thats if his heart, while young and susceptible, had been brought under the moulding and transforming influence of the gospel of Christ in Sabbath schools, he never would have run his guilty career, nor have ended his life on the public scaffold. And second, we here see an exempli6ca. ton of the truth. often inculcated, but too little regarded. that if a man resist and re- pei the early convictions of conscience, he s in imminent danger of being given up of God to "reprobate mind." Let the young, then. be admonished by this mans example. Youthful readers, tkia mas once had tenderness ofheayt as you have now-- he was sensitive to the least imprassian- he trembled-he shudderad and sRrishaa in spiri. at the sight Of Himself as a losta aiaaas hastening to the haE of God-aDd he was, in bis own languaee, l" "almose Christian. '' But alas. what did it avail him How ma- ny are "aEm0sE CkristiGns" who never will "see life !' No more than you, did this man mean tO become a hardened wTetehr murderer, pirate, when he first