for the children of fashion have often very compassionate hearts, she might gladly offer from her abundance to supply the necessities of the poor and naked, and some arrangement might perhaps be entered into for the disposal of such things, with those who make a livelihood by purchasing them. The same would hold good with respect to many other articles of luxury which I need not here enumerate, for if once the habit of self-denial was formed, and the sweetest of all luxuries, that of relieving misery, tasted, no prompting would be needed to encourage further efforts. Leaving this suggestion to the judgment of yourself and your readers, and to the blessing of God, if He sees fit to bring any good out of it, I remain, dear Madam, Your sister in the Lord, ALATHEA. [We must leave this suggestion to the judgment of our readers, we do not feel sufficiently clear of its eligibility to press it upon them. We do however most earnestly press the cause of the poor orphans for whom Alathea so earnestly pleads! In one parish we hear of 120, in another of 90, left as orphans. There are few infants, they mostly perished; but many young children calling loudly for parental care. Those who saved them from death during the horrors of the winter, are now inquiring what they must do with them. Christian ladies of England, do none of you hear the voice of God, saying, "Take this child, and nurse it for me?" A gentleman from India was telling at a Missionary meeting a few weeks since, of the awful famine which desolated India ten years ago, and of the wonderful results which God's providence, ever bringing good out of evil, wrought there ; three hundred orphans, children of heathen parents, being placed in a school at Agra, and brought up in the Christian religion. Shall we not do as much for Ireland, as we have done for India? Romanists do not count pounds shillings and pence when they want to spread their faith, let us not be more penurious in the service of our heavenly Master, than they are in that of the Pope. It would certainly be desirable if some collective measure could be adopted for establishing an Orphan Asylum, but there is no need to wait for this, Christian friends in Ireland are surrounded with these destitute children, and are only waiting our assistance to place them at once in respectable Protestant families where they will be taken care of, and brought under Protestant instruction. The average charge is not much above five pounds a year. Are there no English children who will make an effort to collect shillings and sixpences for them? No English mothers who can afford to add to their family expenses for this year, £5. for an adopted Irish child? If subscriptions were sent to Mr. Nangle at Achill, to Mr. Digby Latouche, Banker, Dublin, for Sidney O'Moore's Orphan Fund; or to Mrs. H. Brougham, 3 Waterloo Place, Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, they would be immediately applied to cases already investigated. (For post office orders the Christian name of the party to whom they are sent must be given at full length.)-ED.] P. S. Since the above was writen, fresh intelligence has reached us from Ireland of the number of orphans left destitute by the late famine,-in six parishes mentioned by our correspondent, there are no less than 461. If any thing,' she continues, 'is to be done for these poor destitute ones, it should be without delay. Once the orphans of Romanists are received into the workhouses, they are by law shut up into the darkness of Popery, and our only time to rescue them is while the workhouses are too full to give them admission.' Another letter states. The black-eyed boy, for whom you enquired is gone-no one knows where. When the soup-kitchen closed he went away, sick, and swelled! I had collected five pounds for his support-but too late! We leave these facts on the consciences of our readers; £5. a year raised annually by any little circle of Christian friends, will be the means of rescuing one of these children from the only alternative that now awaits them, immediate starvation, or refuge in a workhouse where they must be brought up in the thickest darkness of Popery. THE PSALMIST'S REVELATION OF THE TIMES OF RESTITUTION, WITH PARALLEL PREDICTIONS OF THE SPIRIT. PSALM XLV. THIS Psalm relates to the second advent. The Bridegroom is the conquering Messiah-the bride, or consort, the restored Jewish people. THE PSALMIST'S 2. Thou art fairer than the children of men: Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness: PARALLEL PREDICTIONS. My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. Cant. v. 10, 16. How great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Zech. ix. 17. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us... full of grace and truth. John i. 14. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. John iii. 34. For thou hast made him most blessed for ever. Psalm xxi. 6. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called THE PSALMIST'S REVELATION. 4. And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies: whereby the people fall under thee. 6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. PARALLEL PREDICTIONS. the Word of God. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev. ix. 11, 12, 13, 15, 16. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. Isaiah xlii. 13. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Psalm xxi. 8, 9. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning. Zech. ix. 14. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering and to conquer. Rev. vi. 2. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Heb. i. 8. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth and for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Isaiah ix. 7. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. To proclaim |