them no good? Lord, help! I feel much for the class next to mine, as some of them were formerly my scholars. Nothing would rejoice my heart so much as to see them converted. . . . . Went to Sabbath school with the same anxiety I have of late felt, that I might do good. One of my class took up the class-book, and, looking at her name, remarked that she had been in my class for two years, and hoped she should be for two years to come. It encouraged my heart; for the knowledge of the affections of every member of my class leads me to hope that it is for a wise purpose that God has given me their love, that I may do them much more good than I have ever done."

At the close of another Sabbath she writes:

"Have I done all my duty? Can I look back upon my interview with my class, and feel that I have said all I could say, that I have set them an example worthy of imitation? Thank God! they have all tasted of his goodness; but is my duty done? Can I stop here with a clear conscience? Went to the Sabbath school feeling that I had no strength of my own; the grace of God is alone sufficient to accomplish the great work of bringing the children to love and obey Christ. Was appointed to-day to superintend the infant school. Felt quite homesick; wanted to get back to my class, yet feel willing to make the sacrifice if I can be more useful. Was tried when I found only one of the teachers in the infant class a professor of religion. O that God would bring the teachers to repentance!"

In a time of revival in the school she writes:

"Five of my class have found the Lord; two others are seeking him; and one says, 'She needs religion, but is not prepared to seek it now.' O that she might have space for repentance! I feel that I have a great work to do, to lead these souls to heaven, and need the assistance of God; indeed I must have it, or fail. I need, above all things, a holy heart.

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"I feel very anxious that I may be enabled to glorify God to-day,-speak for the Saviour in the Sabbath school. O that he would use me as an instrument to advance his cause! May he specially apply the word I may speak to the heart of Mary N She is the only one in the class who has not found the Lord to be precious. I hope some word, fitly spoken, may sink with deep weight into her heart, and she be led to the Saviour."

We will give but one more extract:

"What has God wrought for the month past? When I was appointed superintendent of the infant department in the Sabbath school, I said, 'Lord, how can I go forward in my duty, for the teachers are not professors of religion, and will not be helpers in the great work?' But now all have found the Lord. How little faith I had in God! Help me, ever blessed Saviour, to believe thou art able and willing to save, even to the uttermost. I desire to feel more for others, that I may constantly pray and labor in the vineyard of the Lord."

REVIVAL IN A BIBLE-CLASS.

IN 1841 there was a revival of religion in a small missionary church in Maine, as fruits of which some fifteen or twenty individuals made a public profession of their faith in Christ. This revival commenced in a Bible-class, taught by the pastor, in connection with the study of the SCRIPTURE QUESTIONS on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. As the class proceeded to consider the fifth lesson, "God will judge men according to their moral characters, and not by their religious privileges or professions," the pastor felt unusually solemn. Soon a deep solemnity pervaded the class, and the members were so much affected, that they were unable to answer the questions. The pastor then closed the

book, and began to address them on the scenes of the judgment, and the interests of their souls. A revival at once commenced, and every impenitent member of that class of thirty was hopefully converted. The revival extended to the Sabbath school, in which many of the members of the Bible-class were teachers. This class, which was held on a week-day evening, spent two years on the Question Book on Romans, holding a meeting every week. And all the members have ever since felt a special interest in that portion of the word of God.

SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS FOR TEXAS.

AN elder in the Presbyterian church, in Western Texas, has made very urgent appeals to the Mass. S. S. Society, "for a donation of their valuable publications," for Sabbath schools in that country. He also appeals to all the friends of the SOCIETY to aid in this work. "Many Sabbath schools," he says, "embracing numbers of Catholic children, might soon be established and sustained, if they could obtain suitable books." New and second-hand books, Bibles and Testaments, are wanted. Who will aid the Society in answering this urgent application? What individuals? What Sabbath schools? What churches?

THE CHOCTAWS.-The Western (Miss.) Banner represents the condition of affairs in the Choctaw Nation as quite prosperous. There are now four female boarding-schools, sustained principally by the funds of the Nation, but under the care and instruction of the missionaries. There are other schools, containing 250 pupils. There are, also, various Sabbath schools, taught by Choctaw teachers, embracing six or seven hundred adults and children.

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Williamsburgh.-A new year's gift from the Sabbath school, per E. A.
Lyman, Sup't,

From Miss M. A. Phillips's class of young Misses in the Sabbath
school in Rev. Mr. Wheeler's Society.

Whitinsville-From infant class in Sab. school in Rev. Mr. Clark's Soc.,
Wenham-From Juvenile Benevolent Society, in Rev. Mr. Mansfield's

congregation,

66 From Miss E. P. D.'s class in the same,

From S. and S. S. D.'s charity box in the same, Wayland-Cent a week contribution from Miss Abby C. Rice's class of little girls,

New England Revivals,

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As they existed at the close of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Compiled principally from narratives first published in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine. By BENNET TYLER, D. D., President and Professor of Christian Theology in the Theological Institute of Connecticut.

THE NEW ENGLAND PURITAN,-which, it is said, "is now the largest and cheapest religious newspaper in the world,"-in a very kind and favorable notice of this book, says :-" Dr. Tyler has produced a book full of sound and living instruction, and that so much the more sure of a reading for its being in a narrative form. The Mass. Sabbath School Society have done a good work in adding to their catalogue a book of such substantial and enduring value.

"We occasionally hear it whispered that there is no use in sustaining such a denominational Society, because they publish, after all, but little that a Union Society might not publish. Now this book itself is a refutation of that suggestion. If we regard the promotion of sound revivals of religion, the power to give a wide circulation to this book alone might justify the sustaining of a denominational Society. Let the Society continue to hold forth sound doctrine after this manner, and they will soon live down all such suggestions."

Notice.

The VISITER, it will be seen by the specimen now given, is to be made, to a greater extent than heretofore, an auxiliary to the Sabbath school. May we not, then, request the friends of this institution to lend us a helping hand, in obtaining the best materials for its pages, and in securing its circulation in all our schools? Brief, well-written articles on any of the topics of practical interest to those for whom the VISITER is intended, will be thankfully received.

It will be understood that all articles hereafter to be inserted in the Visiter, which do not bear the signature of correspondents, or are not copied from other publications, will be from the pens of the editors.

THE MONTHLY MISCELLANY, AND JOURNAL OF HEALTH, edited by W. M. Cornell, M. D., is the name of a new Magazine to be published in this city and New York. Terms, one dollar a year. Judging from the first number, and the well known reputation of the editor, we doubt not it will be an interesting work, deserving, and we hope it may receive, a liberal patronage.

PUBLISHED BY THE MASS. S. S. SOCIETY SINCE DEC. 1, 1845.

THE PARABLES OF JESUS EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED. By Frederic Gustavus Lisco, minister of St. Gertrand Church, Berlin. Translated from the German, by Rev. P. Fairbairn, minister of Salton.

THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVINCING THE WORLD OF SIN, OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT: Considered in four Lectures; the two former delivered at the Tuesday evening Lecture in Brattle Street, January 20 and March 3; the other two at the Old South Church, in Boston, April 17 and 26, 1741. By Joseph Sewall, D D.

THE JEWISH WASHINGTON or Lessons of Patriotism and Piety suggested by the History of Nehemiah. By Rev. Joseph Alden, D. D. 90 pp. 18mo.

AUGUSTA AT HER AUNT'S. 54 pp. 18mo.

EMMA'S VISIT. 36 pp. 18mo.

LIFE SCENES. A New Year's Gift. Edited by Mrs. H. C. Knight. 18mo. With three beautiful engravings.

180 pp.

FOOTPRINTS OF POPERY: or Places where Martyrs have suffered. 18mo. With twenty-five handsome engravings illustrative of

198 pp.

the cruelties and horrors of Romanism.

THE AGED PILGRIM. By Rev. J. Alden, D. D.

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"I AM SO HAPPY." By Miss Selina Bunbury.

THE CONTRAST: or Sketches from Life.

A STORY ABOUT FISH AND FISHERS: for school Children and their Teachers.

A NOBLE YOUTH or William Mason. By the Son of the late Thomas Cranfield, and author of his Memoir.

FANNY THE FLOWER GIRL. 54 pp.

THE BIBLE Box: being the History of a lad who was reputed to have got the whole Bible by Heart. 24 pp.

PIOUS EDWARD. 21 pp.

WANTS AND WISHES, by Charlotte Elizabeth. 24 pp.

WHAT A SAVIOUR!

KING JEHU or Examine your Motives.

ALICE BLAKE: or The Thankful Little Girl.

BELIEVE AND BE SAVED. By John Angell James.

DANGER OF DELAY: or the History of Louisa.

THE CONTRAST: or Sketches taken from real Life.

THE ACORNS.

THE INDIAN BABES IN THE WOODS.

WHITE LIES.

AN IMPORTANT INQUIRY. Have you Neglected your Soul?

Most of the above books are ornamented with handsome frontispieces.