 VARIETY.
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Enthmiasn, aud dts efects.-There are many people who are never easy unless they are at tending some religious assembly; hearing ser mon, a lecture, or d prayer, going about to all kinds of missionary meetings, and all sorts of clerical s!nventlons, receiving exlortations, and perhaps making them; listening to the recital of experiences, and then in turn rcciting their own; crowding around show of Cherokee children. or converslng with convert from New Zealand; :; never easysin fact, unless while they are tres passing on their real duties, by the ruitess per formance eofimaginary ones. They must have the bell of the meeting house rung every other day. and the doors of the school house opened every other night; but their own house may take care ofsitseii.

 am pretty confident that motives of vanitu nave considerable influence over this class of deyotees. It is not enough that they are seen in the house of worship ono day in seven. Every body else is seen there too. and they are not noticed in the crowd. This gives them no dis tinction--they have nothing to do-people are on that day assembled together to worship God. and not to talk boutthemselyes; there IS no op- portunity to exercise any particular gifts, or 10 show off any remarkable graces At an anx- iouss or ssinquirys meeting, they can measure their spiritual growth withmuch apparent meek ness, and confess the vileness of theirnature and the enormity of their sins, with much real pride. and while they arc calling themselves sro1,ns. mean all the time that they are the chosen of Gods creatures.

 Another motive with number of these con stant frequenters of religious meetings, may De love of excitement, change, novelty, and gos- sping. That same residences of temperament, which is the root of ali dissipation, is also the origin of it's religious variety; for what is the spirit and essence of diss patton of any kind but perpetual desire of finding that pleasure abroad, which cannot he felt at home.

 4 third motive, is the idea which many enter