ritance is, its attainment is secured, if we only heartily desire, accept, and lay hold of it. In ourselves we have neither strength nor worthiness for that purpose; nor can any prosper spiritually who have not known and felt the reality of their own wretchedness, misery, poverty, blindness, and unfitness for all good. But in Christ Jesus are freely bestowed for our everlasting possession, the forgiveness of sins, the gift of righteousness, the peace of God, spiritual rest, consolation, joy, strength, life, fulness of content and satisfaction; and we have only to prostrate ourselves before the throne, with such utterances of the heart as these: "Heavenly Father, I am thy creature! Thou hast made me that I might have the fruition, not of these transitory things of time, but of thine own everlasting blessedness! At present I live in this world, banished, with the rest of mankind, from thy house, on account of sin! In these ways of error have I suffered myself to wander farther and farther from thee, and have spent in vanity, indecision, and doubt, the time which I ought to have employed with all diligence in returning to thee as my resting-place. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost. Seek me, bring me back, and take me up! Teach me thyself the right way, and meet me in it; open mine eyes; withdraw not thy hand from me; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation! Pardon all my sin, and especially the inbred corruption of my nature. Forgive my every transgression, through the precious blood of thy dear Son! Send thy Holy Ghost, and shed abroad thy love in my heart, that so I may possess the blessed scriptural assurance that I have verily found favour with thee. Keep also and preserve me, that amidst the sufferings of this present life I may possess my soul in peace, quietness, and tenderness, in constant spiritual watchfulness and sobriety; in contentment, meekness, joyfulness, love, and hope. Teach me perpetually to seek the one thing needful; to cleave to thee with purpose of heart; to find thy word my very joy; to hold perpetual communion with thee in secret prayer; and by inward prayer without ceasing, to lay up in myself a good foun

dation against the time to come. O God! be thou ever my God; that neither death nor life may be able to separate me from thy love."

I close my letter with assuring you, that my journey hitherto has been accompanied by many spiritual and temporal blessings to me; as also, that I am quite well in health; for all which let thanks be continually given to the Most High! May he ever increasingly manifest his goodness towards us, and write in the heart of my dear and honoured mother what I have here written. Amen.

THE CULTURE OF THE COFFEE-TREE.

THE Coffee is the seed of a tree of the family rubiacæ, and belongs to the pentandria monogynia of Linnæus. There are several species of the genus, but the only one cultivated is the coffea Arabica, a native of Upper Ethiopia, and Arabia Felix. It rises to the height of from fifteen to twenty feet; its trunk sends forth opposite branches, in pairs, above and at right angles to each other; the leaves resemble those of the common laurel, although not so dry and thick. From the angle of the leaf-stalks small groups of white flowers issue, which are like those of the Spanish jasmine. These flowers fade very soon, and are replaced by a kind of fruit not unlike a cherry, which contains a yellow glaisy fluid, enveloping two small seeds, convex upon one side, flat and furrowed upon the other, in the direction of the long axis. These seeds are of a horny and cartilaginous nature; they are glued together, each being surrounded with a peculiar coriaceous membrane; they constitute the coffee of commerce.

The most extensive culture of coffee is still in Arabia Felix, and principally in the kingdom of Yemen, towards the cantons of Aden and Moka. Although these countries are very hot in the plains, they possess mountains where the air is mild. The coffee is generally grown half-way up on their slopes. When cultivated on the lower grounds, it is always surrounded by large trees, to protect it from

the torrid suns, and prevent its fruit from withering before their maturity. The harvest is usually gathered at three periods: the most considerable occurs in May, when the reapers begin by spreading cloths under the trees, then shaking the branches strongly, so as to make the fruit drop, which they collect and spread upon mats to dry. They then pass over the dried berries a very heavy roller, to break the envelopes, which are afterwards winnowed away with a fan. The interior bean is again dried before being laid up in a store.-Ure's Dictionary of Arts.

PUBLIC WORSHIP.

If we love the Master, we shall love the service he requires from us, and with especial delight attend those duties by which his holy name is more eminently honoured, his sovereignty acknowledged, and the glory of his kingdom manifested to the world. Now the power and majesty of God's kingdom among men, never appears in so visible lustre as in the congregation of his saints, where numbers of his creatures and subjects are assembled before him, and with united hearts and voices address sacrifices of prayers and praise to his throne. What transports of pleasure must such a scene infuse into a man who loves and honours God? An overflowing delight will fill his soul, and his heart will dance for joy, when he beholds around him such an image of heaven; the fairest resemblance that earth can afford of that holy and happy assembly," who cease not day and night to ascribe honour, and glory, and power to Him who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb that was slain" for the sins of the world. If we find in ourselves a coldness and indifference to this service, we may be assured all is not right within us: our soul must be distempered, and our spiritual appetites depraved and vitiated, if this spiritual entertainment, this food of angels, be tasteless and insipid to us. It was a consciousness of guilt and nakedness made Adam attempt to hide himself from God, and rendered that

presence which was the joy of his innocence, a terror and burden to him.

As God is the supreme and ultimate object of a good man's affections, his rest and his confidence, the centre of all his hopes and desires, so the greatest felicity he is capable of in this life arises from acts of communion with Him. God indeed is never far from any of us: He is about our bed, and about our path; his presence is always open to the addresses of his servants; he attends even to every ejaculation darted up from the shop or the field, and in every place and at every season sheds down his graces and comforts on the faithful worshipper. But as the influences of his Spirit never descend more freely than in the courts of his sanctuary, so the soul is there peculiarly disposed to receive and enjoy them. The concurrent devotions of the assembly open and enlarge every spiritual capacity, awaken our zeal, and warm our affections. We find by all experience how apt the same passions are to spread and diffuse themselves through numerous assemblies of men, how easily they catch and take fire from one another and the observation holds as well in religious assemblies as in any other. The affections proper to the offices we are there engaged in, are kindled by communication from one to another; and the coldest breast must burn with divine love, when every heart around him appears wrapt in that holy flame. To a soul thus disposed to receive him, the Spirit of joy descends in more abundant consolations, and gives him to drink of his pleasures, as out of a river.

It is farther endeared to us, considered as an act of religious communion with one another. For this is a service which equally promotes the glory of God in the highest, and peace and good will among men. It is in these holy assemblies we appear as servants of the same Master, as children of the same Father which is in heaven; and recognise those engaging relations which unite us to Christ and one another. Every fierce and unbenevolent passion must here be calmed; and with whatever resentments our secular interest and pursuits may divide us from each other,

yet surely in the house of God we shall walk together as friends. For how can malice, envy, or revenge remain in our hearts, when we are mutually imploring the graces and blessings of heaven for each other? Can we hate him, whom we behold entreating God to pour his benefits upon us? Can we withhold our forgiveness from him, whom we here see humbling himself in a penitent confession of all his offences; whom we beseech God to hear and forgive; and whom the conditions of that pardon we are praying for ourselves, call upon us to forgive? Here, if ever, the insolence of the rich, and the envy of the poor, all those disquietudes which are apt to arise from the different stations and conditions of men, will be softened and appeased. In the duties of this place, we all present ourselves before the great and glorious God as creatures and sinners; and how must the pride of man be humbled, when he reflects on himself under these characters! How little must the greatest among men appear in his own eyes, in comparison with that infinite Majesty before whom he stands! How trifling the advantages of fortune or authority he possesses! How inconsiderable the distance at which he is removed from the meanest of his brethren! With what influence must such a sight reconcile the several ranks and orders of men to each other; dispose the rich to humility and compassion, the poor to gratitude and content, and diffuse love and amity through the whole assembly!

Yet farther will public worship be recommended to us when we reflect that the most express encouragements of success are given to this service. Where two or three are gathered together in his name, our Lord has promised to be in the midst of them. The united prayers of a devout congregation offer a kind of holy violence to heaven, and address the mercy of God with a force which he will not resist.

In sum: it is here the holy angels of God more especially attend upon us: it is here we express and keep up our communion with that heavenly host," with the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, with the spirits of just men made perfect, with