THE DAY OF MOURNING. OH! weep not for the joys that fade For hopes, that like the stars decayed, And though on earth the tear may start, Amid the bowers of heaven. Oh! weep not for the friends that pass As breezes sweep the withered grass For though thy pleasures may depart, And lonely though on earth thou art, When friends rejoin in heaven. MORTALITY. OH! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? The leaves of the oak and the willows shall fade, The child that a mother attended and loved, The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure, her triumphs are by; The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne, The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The saint that enjoyed the communion of heaven, So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed, So the multitude comes, even those we behold, For we are the same things that our fathers have been, run. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think, From the death we are shrinking, they too would shrink; To the life we are clinging to, they too would cling, But it speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. They loved, but their story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers may come; They joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb. They died! ay, they died! and we things that are now, Yea, hope and despondence, and pleasure and pain, 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, JOSIAH CONDER. N extensive prose writer and sacred poet, Josiah Conder was born at London, on the 17th September 1789. A publisher in the metropolis, he became, in 1814, proprietor of the Eclectic Review; he retired from business in 1819, but retained the management of the Review till 1837. Subsequent to 1824, he composed a series of descriptive works, which appeared in thirty volumes, under the designation of The Modern Traveller. In 1833 he became editor of the Patriot newspaper, which he conducted till the period of his death. His demise took place on the 27th December 1855. Conder edited the Congregationalist HymnBook, which appeared in 1836. COMMUNION WITH CHRIST. When not e'en friendship's gentle aid His counsels and upholding care, Jesus in whom but Thee above, My flesh is hastening to decay, Soon shall the world have passed away; When heart, and strength, and life, shall fail? But oh! be Thou, my Saviour, nigh, H CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. eminent Christian writer, Charlotte Eliza beth was born at Norwich, on the 1st October 1790. She was the only daughter of Michael Browne, Rector of St Giles' parish, in that city. At an early period, she became the wife of George Phelan, of the 60th Rifle corps, and he dying in 1837, she afterwards accepted the hand of L. N. J. Tonna. death took place at Ramsgate, on the 12th July 1846. The numerous religious writings of Charlotte Elizabeth are held in high estimation. PARTING. WHILE to several paths dividing, Keep His scattered flock in view. May the bond of sweet communion We attain our resting-place. Oh, 'tis sweet, each other abiding, Sweet when each can bend, imploring, Or, the stumbling foot restoring, Her |