Oh, that this youthful mourner might now hear that voice of God to his chosen people, "Ye have compassed this mountain long enough--turn you northward." God grant that the past time of her life may suffice that she has "wrought the will of the flesh." We most earnestly commend to her prayerful contemplation the last words of our blessed Saviour to his disciples, "In my Father's house are many mansions." I go to prepare _a place_ for you--just such a mansion--such a place as each ransomed soul, by improving the discipline of God--by holy and self-denying efforts in this life, to do his will, is fitted to fill, and enjoy. And so it will ever be with the heirs of salvation, while they remain in a world of sin and temptation. They are daily and hourly working out their salvation with fear and with trembling, while God is working in them to will and to do of his good pleasure. The improvement which is made of afflictions has a great deal to do in this process. And thus, too, will it be with those who wilfully, or even thoughtlessly neglect the great salvation--those who reject the overtures of pardoning mercy and salvation by Christ. They will hereafter know and acknowledge that "they knew their duty but they did it not." It is said that "Judas went to his _own place_"--and that "Dives _made his bed_ in hell." And herein will these words of the poet be strikingly fulfilled in every human soul-- "'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die." * * * * * Original. CHILDREN'S APPREHENSION OF THE POWER OF PRAYER. While visiting in the family of Rev. Mr. F----, one morning as we were quietly seated at the breakfast table, his two little boys, Willie and Georgie were seated between their father and mother. All at once Georgie, the youngest, a child of five years, reached his head forward, and in a half-whisper said to his brother, "Willie, Willie, if you were going a journey, which would you give up, your breakfast or your prayers?" Willie replied, "I should want both." "But," said the little fellow, still more earnestly, "What if you couldn't have both, then which would you give up?" "I would give up my breakfast," said Willie. The little urchin said in an undertone, "I think mother would take something along in her bag." There was certainly a good "look out" for two worlds. A mother who resides near me, and has a large family of small children, related to me the following circumstance of her eldest boy, when quite young. From the time her children began to talk, she accustomed them, each in their turn, to kneel by her side, on rising and retiring each morning and evening, and repeat to her their little prayers.