MISCELLANEOUS. 'S\)J 



as well as in the metropolis. Nature speats but one 

 language ; she is alike intelligible to the peasant and the 

 man of letters, the tradesman and the man of fashion. 

 While the Muse of Germany shall continue to produce 

 suc.-v plajs as the Stranger and Lover's Vows,* who will 

 not rejoice that translation is able to naturalize her 

 etibrts in our language ? 



REFLECTIOXS. 



ON PRAYER. 



If there be any duty which our Lord Jesus Christ seems 

 to have considered as more indispensably necessary to- 

 wards the formation of a true Christian, it is that of 

 prayer. He has taken every opportunity of impressing 

 on our minds the absolute need in which we stand of the 

 Divine assistance, both to persist in the paths of righteous- 

 ness and to fly from the allurements of a fascinating but 

 dangerous life ; and he has directed us to the only means 

 of obtaining that assistance in constant and habitual ap- 

 peals to the throne of Grace. Praj^er is certainly the 

 foundation-stone of the superstructure of a religious life, 

 for a man can neither arrive at true piety, nor persevere 

 in its ways when attained, unless with sincere and con- 

 tinued fervency, and with the most unaiFected anxiety, he 

 implore Almighty God to grant him his perpetual grace, 

 to guard and restrain him from all those derelictions of 

 heart to which we are by nature but too prone. I should 

 think it an insult to the understanding of a Christian to 

 dwell on the necessity of prayer, and before we can ha- 



* I speak of these plays only as adapted to our stage by the elegant 

 pens ot -Mr Thompson and Mrs Inchbald. 



