Happy shall I be if my humble efforts contribute to assist your benevolent viewsto enable young minds, by proper culture, to exhibit, in future life, examples of true goodness-to feel, themselves, the inexpressible pleasure resulting from virtuous conduct and to impart to your bosoms, as it were, by a kind of sacred sympathy, a satisfaction and delight that shall never know an end. I am, LADIES, With great respect, Your affectionate Friend, And Servant in your benevolent design, THE EDITOR. ADVERTISEMENT. In presenting an EIGHTH EDITION to a generous Public, the Editor gratefully acknowledges her obligations for the increasing demand for this little Book, by which she flatters herself, many of the Young are not only amused, but instructed, and the advantage of a useful Charity promoted. THE POETICAL MONITOR. THE YOUNG PERSON'S PRAYER.-2 CHRON. i. 7. 12. I ASK not wealth, nor pomp, nor power, I seek for blessings more divine, One thing I ask; and wilt thou hear, B WISDOM, betimes to know the LORD And guide and guard my wand'ring youth. Then, should'st thou grant a length of days, To realms of everlasting day. THE APPEAL. HAST thou beheld the glorious Sun, And when he beam'd his noontide ray? Say, did'st thou e'er attentive view Rise in the east, a beauteous show? When darkness had o'erspread the skies, Hast thou e'er wander'd o'er the plain, The flow'ry mead, the leafy grove, Hast thou e'er trod the sandy shore, Hast thou beheld the lightning stream, Hast thou the various beings seen, And hast thou never rais'd thine eyes 'Twas GOD who form'd the concave sky, That people all the spacious earth. 'Tis HE that bids the tempest rise, And rolls the thunder through the skies; His voice the elements obey : 'Thro' all the earth extends his sway. His goodness all his creatures share; Then, while they all proclaim his praise, GOD IN THE CREATION. THERE is a GOD, all nature speaks, Through earth and air, and sea and skies; See, from the clouds his glory breaks, When the first beams of morning rise. The rising Sun, serenely bright, |