things; then to all his members; yet not always direct from him, but through ordinances of his appointment; to families through their heads; to children through their parents; to congregations through their ministers; to nations through their sovereigns. As the manifestation of God is made to fallen man through Christ, so Christ manifests himself to us in and through all our human relationships: he is the source of all rule and government; to pourtray him do all the authorized 'powers that be,' exist; so far as they exhibit him, are they holy; and so far as the picture is marred, are they unholy. Thus the Christian is taught to see his Saviour in every thing, as Head over all; he sees Him in the visible duties of husband, parent, master, minister and ruler; he sees him in his country, in his church, in his parish, in his home; whatever his rank or station may be, he sees himself in it as God's ambassador in that particular sphere. The worship of the Supreme Being is not confined by him to the church and the closet, it is not restricted to the bended knee and the uplifted voice; but is accomplished in the whole life, in all times and seasons, by every power, faculty, and affection of body and mind; whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he aims to do all to the glory of God.

In his epistle to the Ephesian Christians, the apostle reminds us, that the Head of all things to us is Christ; and he points out how every relationship in society shadows him forth under some view or other. Upon this principle it is intended, in a series of short Essays to take, one by one, into consideration the various connexions which bind man to his fellow-creatures, and which (it will then

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be seen) bind him equally to his Saviour. matter of each essay will be chiefly gleaned from an excellent little work called Social Duties on Christian Principles,' the free use of which is now acknowledged, once for all, convinced that its author will not object to such borrowing from his book, for the better dissemination of his own moral principles.

E. H. S.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN
LADY'S MAGAZINE.

MADAM,

ON a former occasion I ventured to offer a few remarks on the duty of Christians to "adorn themselves in modest apparel." I should have been glad to see the subject continued by abler hands, as daily instances of such want of. consideration are presented to view. I have lately met with a letter from the Rev. A. Judson, the zealous Burmese missionary, addressed to the female members of Christian churches, which I take the liberty of transmitting to you, with the hope that you may allow it a place in your Magazine, and that it may thus be made instrumental in leading your readers to a vigilant renouncement of every appearance of vanity. I would ask, is it becoming the followers of Him who had not where to lay his head, to pamper these poor tenements of clay with every luxury human ingenuity can devise; to decorate those members that will soon be the food of countless worms, with every ornament the world delighteth to honour?

I cannot help feeling deeply pained, when I see ladies who are ranked amongst the excellent of the earth, dressed in all the fashion the world could desire: fingers, designed for different occupation, thickly crowded with rings, and ears, created to welcome the glad sounds of the glorious gospel, dis

torted under the weight of decorations which, to some minds at least, bear the decided impress of inconsistency. Would that the comprehensive injunction," Be not conformed to this world," were considered in all its length, and breadth, and minute application, by every Christian lady in the land. The Lord's people are represented as being "chosen out of the world." John xv. 19. "I have manifested my name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world." They are said to be not of the world, even as he was not of the world, John xvii. 6, 14 they are 66 predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son," Rom. viii. 29. Let us then strive to walk worthy of the high vocation unto which we are called, as temples of the living God, holy and unblameable unto the end.

Yours, &c.

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ΙΟΤΑ.

Rev. A. Judson's Letter to the Female Members of Christian Churches.

DEAR SISTERS IN CHRIST,-Excuse my publicly addressing you. The necessity of the case is my only apology. Whether you will consider it a sufficient apology for the sentiments of this letter,-unfashionable I confess, and perhaps unpalatable, I know not. We are sometimes obliged to encounter the hazard of offending those, whom of all others we desire to please. Let me throw myself at once on your mercy, dear sisters allied by national consanguinity, professors of the same holy religion, fellowpilgrims to the same happy world. Pleading these endearing ties, let me beg you to regard me as a

brother, and to listen with candour and forbearance to my honest tale.

In raising up a church of Christ in this heathen land (Burmah,) and in labouring to elevate the minds of the female converts to the standard of the gospel, we have always found one chief obstacle in that principle of vanity, that love of dress and display, (I beg you will bear with me,) which has, in every age and in all countries, been a ruling passion of the fair sex, as the love of riches, power, and fame, has characterized the other. That obstacle lately became more formidable, through the admission of two or three fashionable females into the church, and the arrival of several missionary sisters, dressed and adorned in that manner which is too prevalent in our beloved native land. On my meeting the church, after a year's absence, I beheld an appalling profusion of ornaments, and saw that the demon of vanity was laying waste the female department. At that time I had not maturely considered the subject, and did not feel sure what ground I ought to take. I apprehended, also, that I should be unsupported, and perhaps opposed by some of my coadjutors. I confined my efforts, therefore, to private exhortation, and with but little effect. Some of the ladies, out of regard to their pastor, took off their necklaces and ear-ornaments before they entered the chapel, tied them up in a corner of their handkerchiefs, and on returning, as soon as they were out of sight of the Mission-house, stopped in the middle of the street, to array themselves anew.

In the mean time I was called to visit the Karens, a wild people, several days' journey to the north of Maulmein. Little did I expect there to encounter