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for if a habit of wavering becomes fixed in the mind, it seems to destroy energy of character without which a man is but poorly qualified to make his way through the world, let his situation be what it may. If this is true in the affairs of ordinary life, is it not much more so in religion? I am sure the greatest hindrance I have had to progress in these things of religion, has been a failure in acting up promptly to the dictates of conscience, particularly in little things: a wavering mind as well as failure and neglect of duty, brings doubt and darkness on the mind and leads to unbelief, against which young converts, especially, need to set a watch. In cases of conversion which are marked and striking in their character there is less danger in this source than in the more common cases, where the change is so gradual that the individual cannot himself tell the precise time when he was renewed in the spirit of his mind: the question whether this great deed has taken place, is to be determined by your present willingness to do what God requires, as I read today in one of Nevin's sermons: - he says - Are you willing to accept of Christ as your 'substitute and surely, to be cleansed by his blood, to be clothed with his righteousness, to sit at his feet? Are you ready to be evermore his devoted disciple, and to glorify God with your body and spirit, which are his? I do not ask if you foresee your ability to do all implied in this, and forsee? see that you will actually fulfill all that this resolution imports, but I ask you in regard to your present willingness. God will provide for the rest. I have just finished reading the life of Swarts, who went to India in 1750 and laboured more than 50 years; it is without exception the most interesting memoir I ever read , it makes one feel the nobleness of being entirely devoted to the service of God and the good of man. -- Mr. Walker has enlisted heart and hand with the political abolitionists or liberty men as they call themselves, and were I a man I