in the inhabitants of this dying world. Though the past year has been generally healthful, yet the number of deaths in this society has been greater than usual.GOD's providence utters a warning voice to people of every age.CHILDREN and youths are solemnly warned of their mortality, and urged to give an immediate at|tention to their everlasting concerns. Let this day, be with you, my children, not a day of thoughtless levity, wanton mirth and wild dissipation; but a day of serious recollection, fervent prayer, and humble dedication of yourselves to God. While you praise him for his goodness in preserving you another year, repent of the sins and follies of the year past, con|secrate your spared lives to his service and enter on a speedy preparation for the changes, that may await you in the year to come.HEADS of families, and persons in the midst of life, are taught the uncertainty of their continuance here. While the death of a neighbour and friend awakens in our minds a grateful remembrance of God's spar|ing mercy to us and our families, let it also impress us with a sense of the changes to which we are ex|posed, and excite a serious concern to maintain re|ligion in our hearts, and promote it in our houses.THE aged have been repeatedly warned. My fa|thers, a greater number of your cotemporaries have been removed in the year past, than has been com|mon in preceding years. God's voice to you is, Be ye also ready. You stand on the borders of the eternal world. Soon you must go the way, whence you will not return. Within the ensuing year, it is probable, some of your small number will make 0