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DOMESTIC INFLUENCE.

"Hush, my dear! lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed;
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

"How much better thou'rt attended
Than the Son of God could be,
When from heaven he descended

And became a child like thee!"

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Mother says, that before another year has gone by, she will get me into Sunday school; and if she does, I will try to be always in time, and mind all that is said to me.

I feel sure that I should get on, but mother says I should never trust my own heart, for it will deceive me. I must ask God, for Jesus Christ's sake, to pardon all my sins, and help me in every thing.

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I know that mother is right, and I hope I shall do as she tells (London) Child's Companion.

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THE FAMISHED LAMB.

[A story for Children.}

Walking through my field on a winter's morning, I met with a lamb, as I thought, dead; but taking it up, I found it just alive; the cruel mother had almost starved it to death. I put it into my bosom and brought it to the house there I rubbed its starved limbs, warmed it by the fire-side, and fed it with warm milk from the cow. Soon after, the lamb revived: first, it feared me; but afterward it thoroughly loved me. As I mostly fed it with my own hand, so it followed me wherever I went, bleating after me, whenever it saw me, and was always happy when it could frisk about me, but never so pleased as when I would carry it in my arms.

But you, dear children, have had more from your parents and friends than ever my lamb received from me. What ungrateful hearts must yours be, if you do not love your parents and friends ten times better than ever my lamb loved me.

And let me now remind you of a still better story. Jesus is a shepherd, a shepherd of souls; and of him it is said, "he carries the lambs in his bosom." If you desire to love Jesus, I dare say your parents will let you read that blessed book, the Bible, though good children alone wish for such a favor. There you will hear such things of the love of Christ to poor ruined sinners, as I hope will melt your eyes to tears and your hearts to love."

Rowland Hill.

Song over a Child.

POETRY, BY BARRY CORNWALL.

MUSIC, WRITTEN FOR THE YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND BY GEO. J. WEBB. Pia, ANDANTINO CON AFFETTUOSO.

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THE YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND.

From the English Missionary Notices.

A ROYAL MARRIAGE AT TONGA.

On Tuesday, the 14th May, 1839, there was a royal wedding celebrated here. The bridegroom is a chief of the very highest rank his Christian name is CICERO, and his title Tuibelehaki. He is a local preacher. He spent several years of his life at Fejee, and returned to this place near four months ago. But, prior to his coming, he had heard of the charms of Princess Charlotte of Vavou, King George's only daughter; and no sooner did he see her than he determined to pay his addresses to her. He wrote, and, according to the custom of the Friendly Isles, soon obtained a direct answer; which was in the affirmative. No sooner was the affair made known, than Josiah Tubou, and the other chiefs here, requested King George to bring his daughter to Tonga to be married. He acceded to their request, and they immediately began to make preparations for the event on an extensive scale. All the heathen chiefs, as well as Christian, contributed to it. Great quantities of yams and of native cloth were brought from the different fortresses to Nukualofa; and on the 11th May, about noon, the fleet from Haabai and Vavou was discovered off this place. It consisted of twenty-six double canoes. A sort of drum was immediately beat, to collect our people together, to prepare kava and food for the reception of the guests. The place was soon in a bustle, men, women and children, running to see the canoes, some of which were drawing near to shore. The king's canoe, in which were the queen and the bride, was first, she having outsailed the rest. The scene was lively, and interesting in the extreme to us. The number of people on board was immense there were one hundred and thirty persons in one

canoe.

As soon as the principal part of the chiefs and men came on shore, they proceeded with King George to Tubou's residence, to drink kava. The ladies formed another party. The old king sat in the centre of his house; and the chiefs, according to their name of office, took their stations on each side of him; while the bulk of the people sat opposite. In the evening, we had a great many visiters; and, the next day being Sabbath, we divided the congre

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gations, which were immense. King George preached in the large chapel, in the evening, a very useful and excellent sermon.

On Monday the preparations were made on a magnificent scale; we reckoned sixty-two baked pigs, beside two hundred baskets of other kinds of food. Tuesday was the day fixed for performing the grand ceremony. The reeding, which formed the sides of the chapel, and the outside fence, were taken away, in order to accommodate, in some measure, the multitude who would assemble to witness the scene. Soon after day-light, the people began to collect in great numbers, Christian and heathen. The chief women were engaged, in the meantime, in adorning the bride and bridegroom; and a little before ten o'clock the lali, or "drum," was struck, to give notice that all was ready.. We went to the chapel; where there was such a mixed multitude assembled, inside and outside, as I never saw before there, every one dressed in his best apparel. After waiting a short time, the bride and bridegroom made their appearance; the former walking first, as is the custom here on such occasions, both in going to and returning from the place of worship on the day of marriage. We began the service by singing and prayer; the congregation then chanted the Te Deum; after which Mr. Rabone delivered a short address on the duties of husbands and wives. I then performed the office of marriage, spoke a few words of exhortation, and concluded with singing and prayer. Thus ended one of the most interesting marriage ceremonies I have ever witnessed in the Friendly Islands. There were two kings and two queens present, the Tamaha, all the chiefs of Haabai and Vavou, with many belonging to Tongataboo. The bride is a very fine person, quite the image of her father. They are devotedly attached to each other.

On Thursday, King George and Queen Charlotte, and the newlymarried pair dined with us. The King preached in the evening, and again on Sunday. We had an abundance of religious services. I should think there were upward of one hundred local preachers here from Haabai and Vavou. The visiters conducted themselves with the greatest propriety; and, I believe, great good will result from this marriage having taken place at Tonga. Fatu and Maafu, two of the principal heathen chiefs, as well as several others of minor importance, have been here near a fortnight, at the katoaga, or "feast." This is a very pleasing indication that Satan's kingdom is divided against itself here. O that it may speedily fall, and the kingdom of the Redeemer every where prevail!

SISTERS-WHAT SHOULD EVER SEVER THEM?

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I have received a model of a Tenga canoe from King George, which he wishes me to present, with his best wishes, to the Missionary Committee.

SISTERS-WHAT SHOULD EVER SEVER THEM?

BY REV. GEO. W. BURNA P.

A thousand ties concur to bind sisters together. There is, in the first place, a natural affection in the human heart, implanted there to correspond to that relation, and thus unite those in attachment who' have been borne on the same bosom, and grown up around the same hearth. Besides this instinctive affection, they naturally become attached from sympathy, from sharing the same joys and sorrows, and loving the same objects. The same events for years have filled them with gladness, and often they have mingled their tears at the same calamities. Their interests have been the same, and even their childish plays, the source to them of infinite delight, have made closer the tie which draws their hearts together. Sisters-blossoms on the same stem—what should ever sever them? Stars shining in the same constellation; why should they not mingle their mild radiance in peace? If there be in their hearts any capacity for attachments, how can their common tasks, their common pleasures, their perpetual society, fail of uniting them in the most intimate affection? If they have any literary ambition, any desire for intellectual improvement, they may minister endlessly to each other's pleasures and progress. If they would add to literary accomplishment the charm of graceful and winning manners, whose eye so quick as that of a sister to administer friendly criticism and admonition?

I counsel them to use well that portion of life, which they pass under the same roof, to cement the bond of natural affection, for the time will come when they will probably need it all. For as fountains, which rise upon the same mountain top, diverge and run in opposite directions, traverse plains as different as tropical abundance and polar sterility, and finally join the great ocean, one under the burning line, and the other in the midst of perpetual snows, so sisters rocked in the same cradle, watched over by the same maternal solicitude, walking hand in hand the same paths of education and accomplishment, may be destined by events over which they have no control, to a lot as widely contrasted as can possibly be conceived. Equality of conditions they cannot hope. How shall they resist the

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