with me, read, and repeat her hymns and catechism to me. So you must excuse me, if the style of my letter seems, as if intended for a child. If we were to meet now, and I should be surprised to see how much you have improved, you would be not less surprised to see me with a long black beard, with a large white turban on my head, and loose robes that come down to the ancles. I will not, however, describe to you in this letter, the strange things that I see in this country; I will rather endeavor to render my letter useful to you by giving you advice.

"1. I recommend to you a diligent attention to your studies. You are now arrived at an age, when you are capable of appreciating the value of learning, and ought to feel that the time, which is allowed you for this purpose, should be diligently improved. When at school, take care that no day pass without making some sensible progress in the acquisition of useful knowledge; and when at home let not your books be neglected, but improve your leisure hours in reviewing what you have studied at school, and in reading attentively such books, as are best calculated to improve your character, and furnish your mind with useful knowledge. Your parents will be able to tell you what books, it will be most useful for you to read; and if you converse with them about what you read, this will help you to understand it better, and serve to fasten it in your memory. When you get a good book, read it several times through, so that you may understand it well.

"2. Guard against vain and useless amusements. In the pursuit of them you would lose time which ought to be spent in business or study, and they would only tend to injure your disposition and temper. In all your visits and in all your hours of recreation, take care not to say or do any thing, which you would not be willing that your parents should hear or see; or rather, I would say, always remem

ber, that God, your Creator, hears all you say, and sees all you do.

"3. Carefully cultivate a good temper and a kind disposition. Love to do kind things to others, whenever you have opportunity. Guard against being angry, sulky, irritable, morose, or peevish. The way to be happy and useful is, to be kind and affectionate. To love others, is the way to gain their love. By giving way to an ill temper, you would become unhappy yourself, and make those around you so likewise. Be cheerful, contented, kind, and friendly, and you will always find friends.

"4. Learn to govern your tongue. I trust, indeed, that I need not caution you against falsehood. But I will warn you to be always cautious how you speak of the characters of others. It is better generally to talk about other people's virtues, than about their faults. And if you are sufficiently aware of your own imperfections, you will be sensible that you ought not to be forward in speaking against others. Take care not to indulge unreasonable prejudices against any of your companions, neighbors, or acquaintances.

"5. The last and most important direction I have to give to you, and which, I pray God, to give you grace to comply with, is, attend to the concerns of your soul. Remember, Clarissa, you are a sinner, a great sinner in the sight of God, and exposed to eternal punishment. Christ has died to save sinners. Repent, confess your sins, cry to God for mercy, and believe in the Lord Jesus, with all your heart, and he will save you. If you neglect to do this, you cannot be saved. Do think of this subject, now, while you are young. You may die in youth. O may God grant you his saving grace. This is the prayer of your affectionate uncle, PLINY."

During September Mr. Fisk visited Hadet, the native place of Asaad Shidiak, and had conversa

tion with two emeers, whose eyes had been burnt out, and tongues cut off, by the prince of Mount Lebanon. He learnt from the unfortunate emeers, that their eyes were put out by having a red hot iron thrust into them. Notwithstanding a part of their tongues was cut off, they could articulate intelligibly. They were punished in this cruel manner for having taken some part with Sheik Bushir in the disturbances, which, in the previous winter, had been occasioned in Mount Lebanon.

An object, which engaged Mr. Fisk's attention at this time, was the establishment of a school at Beyroot for teaching Arabic grammatically. And for this purpose he had engaged Mr. King's teacher. What led to a consideration of this subject was the fact, that it is very difficult for Christians to find a suitable Arabic instructor; the grammatical knowledge of the language being principally confined to Mussulmans, who seldom condescend to instruct native Christians.

On the 26th of September he accompanied his fellow-laborer, Mr. King, to the Sardinian brig in which he was to sail, having closed the three years for which he engaged. On their way their conversation turned upon the dangers to which they were likely to be exposed; the little probability of their ever meeting again in this world; the importance of being faithful while it is called to-day; and the hope of meeting each other, when their labors and trials should be finished.

TO ONE OF HIS BROTHERS.

"I feel interested in the welfare of your children, and shall ever rejoice to hear that they are well and happy, intelligent and virtuous. But above all I should rejoice to hear that they have been made partakers of the grace of God. Often reflect, dear

Brother, on the value of their immortal souls, and let the consideration stimulate you to pray earnestly for them, to exhibit a consistent and holy example for their imitation, and to speak affectionately and solemnly to them about their guilt and danger, and the way of life by the blood of Jesus. Persuade them, entreat them, warn them, to flee from the wrath to come. Invite them, and, if possible, win them to the love of the Saviour. Parental exhortations often have a powerful effect. Can you bear the thought that any one of your children should remain an enemy to God, live in sin, die impenitent, and be miserable forever? If the thought of this is dreadful, then do not rest, till you have evidence that divine grace-is dawning in their souls. May God give you a wise and faithful spirit, and make you the instrument of bringing all your children to Christ."

While in Western Asia, Mr. Fisk became deeply interested in the present state of the Greeks, and he was impressed with the consideration, that the facilities for introducing among them the means of religious instruction were peculiarly favorable. He urged the wants of that oppressed people, and mentioned Smyrna as an important post for missionary labor. He also proposed the publication of a Periodical work at the mission press in Malta, with special reference to the present condition of the Greek population. From a number of documents it appears, that it was his sanguine conviction that the latter measure would be followed with very desirable results. Nor did his benevolent concern for this people subside, after he had explored the wretchedness of other fields. One of his last productions was a communication, prepared just before his death, and addressed to the Society of Inquiry respecting missions, in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, in which he notices the claims of the

Greeks, and the facilities among them for missionary operations. Some extracts follow.

"The Greeks need missionaries; for, though nominal Christians, they pay an idolatrous regard to pictures, holy places and saints. Their clergy are ignorant in the extreme. Out of hundreds, you will scarcely find one who is capable of preaching a sermon. Of course, there is little preaching; and that little is oftener an eulogium on some saint, than an exhibition of Christ's Gospel. The people are consequently ignorant and vicious. Before the Bible Society began its work, the Scriptures were rare, and in most of the schools that exist, the children merely learn to read ancient Greek, without understanding it. Greece offers to view an extensive missionary field;--the different divisions of Greece, properly so called-the numerous Islands of the Archipelago-a multitude of Greeks scattered over all Turkey-convents innumerablethousands of schools, now almost useless, but needing only a proper organization and suitable books, to render them nurseries of sound learning. Nor should it be forgotten that the Greek church is intimately connected with the predominant church in the immense and rising empire of Russia-and has more or less direct or indirect influence upon all the oriental churches-Armenian, Syrian, Nestorian, Coptic, and Abyssinian.

"The Greeks offer to missionaries many excellent materials to be wrought into the great spiritual building--powerful intellect, lively imagination, zeal, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, love of learning and liberty, which four hundred years of barbarous slavery have not been able to destroy, an earnest desire for civilization, a remembrance of what their fathers were, and the hope of being what England and America now are, and all these traits of character brought into action by the idea, that the present is the period of their national regeneration.