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whispering in its ear that at this very moment, far across the wide sea, kind hearts and generous hands are preparing to chase away haggard hunger from old Ireland, and that ships are already speeding rapidly to her shores, laden with the food which shall restore life to the parent and renew the exhausted fountain of its own young existence.

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TO RHODA.

[Translated from the Swedish.]

BY GUSTAVUS SCHMIDT, ESQ.

I fly to thee, when clouds of evening, sailing,
Haste in their glory to thy Western home

I fly to thee, when with the twilight failing
Sinks Hesperus to rest in Ocean's foam.

I fly to thee, when Flattery, caressing,
Pours its unheeded praises in my ear;

;

I fly to thee, and crave thy healing blessing, When racked with pain I sit and languish here.

I fly to thee, when each harmonious sound
In nature soothes the fever of my breast;
I fly to thee, when Fancy's wing hath found
No pleasant spot whereon my foot may rest.

I fly to thee, when Time moves sad and slow,

Dragging the heavy length of sorrow's chain; Or, when my anxious, fluttering heart beats low, With thee I hush my fears-my peace regain.

I fly to thee, when Night's close sable shroud Enfolds the day, and leaves the fancy free To tinge with rainbow-hues that fleecy cloud On which, in dreams, I float away to thee.

SAILORS ARE HUMAN BEINGS.

BY REV. EDMUND NEVILLE, D. D.

I. You may perhaps think it strange that I should observe in the first place, with respect to sailors, that they are human beings.

But the neglect which they have met with from their fellow creatures seems to make that observation necessary. Obliged from the nature of their calling to be wanderers on the face of the earth, and to spend a large proportion of their lives on the solitary deep-never staying long in one place, and separated from landsmen by the uncongeniality existing between their pursuits and habits, they have been forgotten-being out of sight, they have been out of mind. A few years ago you could scarcely find in the catalogue of Christian charities one of them devoted to seamen's interests, and even now those interests are only beginning to attract attention. I observe, therefore, that they are human beings, of the

same flesh and blood as ourselves, and on that ground alone entitled to our sympathies. It is a spurious benevolence that limits its regards to peculiar objects. Connected by the link of a common brotherhood, we should feel for all who are comprehended in the fraternal chain. The orphan, the widow, the aged, the sick, the blind, the poor and the ignorant should not be allowed to engross our sympathies. It is not only the ne

cessities of this or of that class of men that should awaken our compassion, but the necessi ties of all. The benevolence of God, which, as being perfect, should regulate the benevolence of his creatures, is expansive. It shines like the sun upon the good and upon the evil; it descends like the rain upon the just and upon the unjust. And redeeming love is equally comprehensive"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," not sinners of any particular class but sinners of all classes; and as every sinner in distress excites his compassion, so every fellow creature in distress should excite ours. Sail

ors are human beings.

II. I observe again that they are Immortal beings.

This gives them their highest claim to our

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