Boast not your ennobled stations, Boast not that you're highly fed; Jesus, hear it all ye nations, Had not where to lay his head. Learn of me, thus cries the Saviour, If my kingdom you'd inherit: Sinner, quit your proud behavior; Learn my meek and lowly spirit. Come, ye servants, see your station Free from all reproach and shame; He who purchased your salvation, Bore a servant's humble name. Come, ye poor, some comfort gather, Faint not in the race you run; Hard the lot your gracious Father Gave his dear, his only Son. Think, that if your humble stations Less of worldly food bestow, You escape those strong temptations Which from wealth and grandeur flow See, your Saviour is ascended; See, he looks with pity down: Trust him, all will soon be mended; Bear his cross, you'll share his crown. BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS; or, THE VALLEY OF TEARS. A VISION. BY HANNAH MORE. Once upon a time methought I set out upon a long journey, and the place through which I travelled appeared to be a dark valley, which was called the Valley of Tears. It had obtained this name not only on account of the many sorrowful adventures which poor passengers commonly meet with in their journey through it, but also because most of these travellers entered it weeping and crying, and left it in a very great pain and anguish. This vast valley was full of people of all colors, ages, sizes, and descriptions; but whether white, or black, or tawney, all were travelling the same road, or rather, they were taking different little paths which all led to the same common end. Now it was remarkable, that notwithstanding the different complexions, ages, and tempers of this vast variety of people, yet all resembled each other in this one respect, that each had a burden on his back, which he was destined to carry through the toil and heat of the day, until he should arrive, by a longer or shorter course, at his journey's end. These burdens would in general have made the pilgrimage quite intolerable, had not the Lord of the valley, out of his great compassion for these poor pilgrims, provided, among other things, the following means for their relief. In their full view, over the entrance of the valley, there were written in great letters the following words: BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS.