Mr. P.-O yes, Sir, "And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." This my father charged me never to forget. Choose, said he, the excellent of the earth for your companions, live to Him who alone can preserve you and make you happy here, and eternally happy in the world to come. Then shall you finally discern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.-Having introduced your visitors to the pious assembly, I suppose you leave them engaged in spiritual conversation, and

close your Exhibition.

Ex. Not just yet, Sir. For having prepared a biographical sketch of the lives of the Prophets, and other compilations adapted to domestic improvement, I intend to present them to the friends of the Camera, that they may become more intimately acquainted with those holy men, whose writings God has wonderfully preserved through successive persecutions, the wreck of nations, and the fall of empires.

Mr. P.-Extremely well! I confess, I was disappointed at not meeting with pictures as I had expected, but must now assure you that I am highly pleased with your Exhibition. If you publish the conversations on

the respective scenes, let me be numbered among your subscribers.

Ex.-Accept my best thanks, Sir, for your obliging proposal; neither your name, nor your remarks, shall be omitted.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

OF THE

LIVES OF THE PROPHETS.*

ISAIAH.

ISAIAH informs us, that he prophesied during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, who successively flourished between A. M. 3194 and 3305. He styles himself the son of Amoz, by whom we are not to understand the

From "A Key to the Old Testament," &c. By the Rev. Robert Gray, D.D. Prebendary of Durham.

Prophet whose name is spelled Amos, and who was nearly coeval with Isaiah himself. It has been supposed that Isaiah was of the royal blood; and some have maintained that his father Amoz was the son of King Joash, and brother to Uzziah, or Azariah, King of Judah. He certainly was of that

tribe, and of noble birth; and the Rabbins pretend that his father was a Prophet, which they collect from a general rule established among them: that the fathers of the Prophets were themselves Prophets when their names are mentioned in scripture. Isaiah was the first of the four great Prophets, and is represented to have entered on the prophetic office in the