as she enters, upon her dearest mother. Long tost, and driven and lashed, as amid the wild billows of a boiling, frightful, and shoreless sea, where, above, lurid fires glared from sky to sky, and hideous spectres were flitting across her vision, and the horrid laugh of demons sickened her whirling brain, she had, all suddenly, heard a voice new, and of loveliness unuttérable, hushing to peace. Then, in a twinkling, she was standing upon the solid earth, and looking aloft, the glorious sun lay deep in the far-spreading azure-and every sight and sound were only beautiful-and a soft hand seemed laid upon her disheveled tresses, composing to delightful tranquillity and healthfulness her agitated and tortured being. The transport, so sudden-so complete, had well nigh overcome her strength, and she had sought her couch, there to indulge her gushing tears of joy, and praise the Hand that stooped to bless a child; and there she waited the coming of her happy mother.

In after days, did they not often think of Jesus, and speak of him? Was not the "great faith" of the mother still greater now, and her love more elevated and intense? And that daughter, was she not, in the best sense, clothed, and in her right mind? And from these kindred hearts, arose there not the frequent song of praise and thanksgiving,—until they passed, both of them, away to where she who humbled herself to beg for "a crumb," found eternal plenty!

Mother! Is thy daughter as yet unrenewed, and her heart drawn away by evil and downward influences? Does the spirit of a sinful world still enthrone itself within her heart? And seems she fondly lured away by the hopes and vanities of a brief and uncertain life, and averse to the rational and lofty pursuit of holiness and heaven? The example of the woman of Canaan, is given thee for thy instruction and encouragement. Like her, go, in behalf of thy daughter, directly to the great and compassionate Redeemer. Seek after and cherish "great faith" in his promises and mercy. Exercise a perseverance, such as is obstinate and unyielding; cultivate profound humility-begging, if it might be, but a crumb from his infinite fullness. And while thou prayest, bear always before thy child the spirit corresponding to thy prayers. Putting away all wrath, and clamor, and evil-speaking, talk often and skillfully of the things of Christ. Be his love always a familiar theme. Let everything pertaining to thy house be such as shall tend to invite the Saviour's presence and power. So shall that presence and that power dwell with thee, banishing evil spirits. and poisonous influences, and fitting thee and thine for endless happiness and heaven.

Mather of James and John.

"THE mother of Zebedee's children" is several times mentioned in the evangelical history. From a comparison of Matthew xxvii, 56, with Mark xv, 40, it would appear very probable that her name was Salome. She was, in all probability, specially beloved by Christ. She doubtless entertained him often in Capernaum, and was one of the women specially designated as ministering to his wants in Galilee and other places. She was one of the celebrated women that were not content to see Christ, and hear him, as in his travels he passed their homes. At times we find her abroad, listening to the words of the Saviour; and in his last and dreadful agony, she was one of the weeping witnesses of his crucifixion. At the side of Mary Magdalene, and "the other Mary,” stood the faithful Salome, looking on afar off, as they crucified the Lord of glory. She looked upon that dreadful scene, and was a spectator of the awful signs that accompanied the dying of the Son of God. So also was she associated with the Marys in the preparations for embalming the sacred body. She proved herself one of his most devoted and constant friends-lingering near him to the last, and yielding the last service within her power to proffer him.

One shade, however, rests upon the mother of

Zebedee's children, and which seems inseparably associated with her name. The Jewish idea of a temporal Messiah, and of great temporal prosperity and power under his reign, seems never to have been eradicated from the minds of the apostles, even to the day of Christ's ascension to heaven. On that very morning, as they assembled around their Master, they inquired whether he would now restore again the kingdom to Israel. They appear to have advanced but by slow degrees to the true idea of Christ's kingdom; and came not to the knowledge of the whole truth on this important subject until the ascension of the Lord, and the outpouring of the Spirit that soon followed.

It was with this idea of a temporal reign, that the sons of Zebedee petitioned for the most honorable places under the new order of things. We are surprised, in contemplating the ambition of these brothers, as well as the apparent boldness and imprudence with which they pushed their request. That their proceedings in this matter must produce the effect upon their brethren which was actually produced, might have been foreseen by a child, and could not have been unanticipated by the petitioners. A species of recklessness, therefore, appears to have accompanied their ungraceful ambition; while the whole affair is to be numbered among the most inexplicable circumstances of the apostolic history. The employment of their mother as their advocate in this case, may be accounted for, perhaps, from the probable

fact of her great influence. We have seen her to have been one of the most faithful of all Christ's attendants who "ministered to his wants,"-and the sons naturally supposed that her intercessions would be specially availing in their behalf. It must be pronounced as being, on the part of James and John, a mean, weak, and altogether unfortunate transaction, and not at all in keeping with what we learn besides of the spirit and character both of the sons and the mother. And on the whole, how can we contemplate it otherwise than as one of those sad mistakes to which even very good people are exposed when at any time they dispense, even for a moment, with watchfulness and prayer? We may not doubt the general piety of the mother and her two sons; and they were specially distinguished by the Lord Jesus. It was much that one from a single family should be called to the apostleship. Much more was it that two brothers should at once receive this high distinction. It was more still, that both brothers should be recognized not only as apostles, but confidential friends of Christ. No family on earth was ever honored like that of Zebedee. No other mother could tell of two of her sons being both raised to the apostleship, and also to be two out of the three on whom the great Mas-. ter, for reasons known to himself, bestowed special intimacy. All this may possibly help to account for the kindling of their unhallowed ambition, and the indiscreet proceeding to which it gave exist