ANSWER TO MATHEMATICAL QUESTION.

SEE PAGE 236.

SIR,

IF you think proper to insert the following answer to the mathematical question, p. 236. at some future opportunity I shall write on a subject of as much greater importance as heavenly things are above earthly.

LIVERPOOL.

Yours, &c.
JOHN WRIGHT.

I find four times the sum of any two figures composing a number the first of which is to the last as 1 is to 2, is always equal to that number ; and if three times the sum of the two figures (which is equal to three fourths of that number) be added to the number, the figures will then be inverted. The number required by the question is 24, which may thus be found

18 3: 6 the sum of the figures required

6 X 4 = 24 the number required 24+18=42 the figures inverted.

Or by common arithmetic it may be done thus→→→

3) 18 (6
4

24

18

42

By the same rule 12 must have 9 added to it

36 must have 27

And 48 must have 36

These are the only four numbers containing two figures that can be so served.

No, while his lightnings flash around,

Although the earth's foundation move,
I stand secure on faith's firm ground,
I rest in his unchanging love.

Nothing shall fright my soul from God,
Should he the skies this moment rend,
He is my only safe abode:

My rock, my refuge, and my friend.

LIBERALITY ENCOURAGED.

S. H.

*The liberal soul shall be mede fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." Prov, xi, 25.

AN EJACULATION.

LET praise employ my heart and tongue:
Let grace, free grace, be all my song,

While life and breath remain :
In this sweet work I love t' engage,
And when I quit this earthly stage
I'll sing a nobler strain.

VERSES ON MARRIAGE.

SIR,

THE HE following lines, which are copied verbatim from the original, were composed by an illiterate man, at Ponder's End, but one who (I believe)" Fears God, and loves all mankind." In reading these lines, 1 was particularly pleased, with that beautiful sentiment of "dependance on God," which runs through the whole.

If, Sir, you think them worth a place in your Miscellany, they are at your service. W. BICKNELL, Junr.

I.

LORD, be present at our wedding,

Fill our hearts with heavenly grace,

Bless us in our undertaking,

May it be to shew thy praise.

II.

Bless us in our new connection,

May it be approv'd of thee;

Grant us thy divine protection,
Fit us for eternity.

III.

As our hands are join'd together,

May our hearts be join'd in one;
Crown our lives with heav'nly favour,
May we in thy fear go on.

IV.

Help us, Lord, in ev'ry station,

To rely upon thy word;

May we know that free salvation,

Comes through Jesus Christ the Lord.

IN the gay hours of reason's early dawn,
I trod with rapture o'er the lovely lawn;
While Hope sat pointing to the pleasing view,
Enamour'd with the scenes which frolic fancy drew.

Till far from these perennial sweets I stray'd,
Led by variety's delusive charms;

And join'd th' ambitious crowd, where vice, array'd
In virtue's fairest robes, pours forth her dire alarms.

So the sweet stream unsullied flows along,
Dispensing life to ev'ry drooping flow'r,

That breathes its fragrance round its sedgy shore,
While whisp'ring zephyrs join its soft remurm'ring song;
Till wildly wand'ring, negligent of home,

It joins the roaring deep, where dashing waters foam.

E. G.