Page images
PDF
EPUB

NEW BOOKS.

Literary Notices.

HARPER'S STATISTICAL GAZETTEER. New York: Har

per & Brothers. 1855. Royal 8vo. Pp. 1,952.-We have not space to notice this magnificent work as we could wish. A Gazetteer is indispensable in every family li brary; and this is unquestionably the most complete and authentic work of the kind to be had in the country. The Harpers are beginning to develop their old energy. Success to them. For sale by H. W. Derby, Cincinnati. ORATORS AND STATESMEN. By D. A. Harsha. New York: Charles Scribner. 1855. 8vo. 517 pp.-This work contains sketches of the lives, specimens of the eloquence, and estimates of the genius of Demosthenes, Cicero, Chatham, Burke, Grattan, Fox, Erskine, Curran, Sheridan, Pitt, Canning, Brougham, Henry, Ames, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and Everett. Mr. Harsha is quite appreciative of his subjects; but having selected such subjects as are found in his noble list, how could he be otherwise? Adulation becomes a virtue; panegyric a necessity. In reading these sketches, one would be impressed with the effort of the author to find terms that might fitly express the merit of his oratoric heroes. Yet the sketches are life-pictures, drawn with much discrimination and life; and the interspersing of illustrative anecdotes and specimens of eloquence is admirably done. On the whole, the volume is one of rare interest. Moore, Wilstach & Co., Cincinnati.

THE HARP OF DAVID is a charming little miniature volume, from the prolific pen of Rev. Daniel Wise; a most appropriate "present to my Christian friend." For sale in the Methodist bookstores generally.

THE MIND OF JESUS is an excellent production by the author of "Morning and Night Watches." The series produced by this anonymous author ranks among the choicest sentimental and instructive religious productions of the age. They are republished by Carter & Brothers, of New York; and on sale by Moore, Wilstach & Co., Cincinnati.

PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING, with reference to the Improvement of Rural Residences, giving the General Prinples of the Art; with full directions for planting shade trees, shrubbery, and flowers, and laying out grounds.—The above is the full title of a work issued in splendid style from the press of Moore, Wilstach & Co., of Cincinnati. Its author-Mr. G. M. Kern—is a practical gardener of high scientific acquirements, so far as relates to his peculiar department, and also of much experience. We thank God that the love of the beautiful in nature is so rapidly developing among us; and that shade and fruit-trees, as well as shrubbery and flowers, are beginning to be considered as things indispensable to a country home. The excellent manual before us will not only promote a fuller development of that feeling, but will be an indispensable guide to the attainment of the object. It should be in the hands of every intelligent farmer in the country.

In quite a sturdy square 16mo., the Harpers have issued Volume I of their new series of story-books. It embraces a series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales for the instruction and treatment of the young. This volume contains: "Bruno, or Lessons of Fidelity,

Patience, and Self-Denial taught by a Dog:" "Willie and the Mortgage, showing how much may be accomplished by a boy;" and "The Strait Gate, or the Rule of Exclusion from Heaven." The work is finely got up and illus trated. It is worthy of an immense circulation, and we think will hardly fail to attain it. For sale by H. W. Derby, Cincinnati.

THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL. By the Author of "Morning and Night Watches." New York: Carter & Brothers. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Co. 1855. 12mo. 416 pp.-The Christian will find food for the soul, and the Bible student instruction in this volume. It is no mean compliment to say, that the author has added fresh interest to this well-worn subject. Though much had been said before, he proves that something was still left for him to say.

THE MINISTER'S FAMILY. By Rev. W. M. Hetherington, LL. D. New York: Carter & Brothers. 1855. 12mo. 304

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS.

THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH makes an octavo pamphlet of one hundred and eighty-eight pages. Receipts for the year 1854, $277,077.23; disbursements, $241,794.06. The missions shared in the disbursements as follows: the African, $37,000; foreign German, $23,000; Oregon and California, $3,776; China, $8,000; New Mexico, $1,000; Buenos Ayres, $2,300; home work, including missions to the foreign population, $143,800. In the domestic work there are 600 missionaries and 54,218 members; in the Indian, 10 missionaries and 871 members; in the missions to seamen, 6 missionaries and 861 members; among the foreign population in this country, 220 missionaries and 13,273 members; in foreign stations, 81 missionaries and 1,995 members. In addition to this, there are 145 local preachers, 35 teachers, 17 assistants, 6 interpreters, and 325 scholars.

THE PROMPTER is the title of a new serial commenced by the enterprising editor of the Sunday School Union, and of which numbers one and three have been received. It is designed to encourage, stimulate, and direct efforts at self-improvement. Success to it!

FROM L. Scott & Co., 79 Fulton-street, New York, we have received:

THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, for February, 1855. Contents: 1. The Continent in 1854. 2. Finlay on the Byzantine Empire. 3. The Vaudois and Religion in Italy.

4. Curiosities of the Census. 5. The Oxford Reform Bill. 6. How to Stop Drunkenness. 7. Old English Songs. 8. Diet and Dress. 9. The Electric Telegraph.

LONDON QUARTERLY, for January, 1855. Contents: 1. Fires and Fire Insurance. 2. Life of Dalton. 3. Pictures of Life and Character. 4. Psychological Inquiries. 5. Clerical Economics. 6. The Open Fireplace. 7. Prov ident Institutions. 8. Campaign in the Crimea. 9. Corsica. 10. The Conduct of the War.

The above, and also "The Westminster," "The Edinburgh," and "Blackwood," republished by the same house, are for sale by the periodical sellers generally.

We have space only to mention the following pam- Hunt, A. M., assisted by 8 teachers. Students-gentlephlets: men, 207; ladies, 148: total, 355.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF OHIO, for the Year 1854. 8vo. 46 pp. Columbus.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 8vo. 122 pp. NEW YORK SENATORIAL QUESTION.-Speeches of Hon.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION So- C. C. Leigh and others. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co. CIETY. 8vo. 56 pp. Washington, D. C.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND, for the Year 1854. 8vo. 19 pp. Columbus, O.

CATALOGUE OF AMENIA SEMINARY.-Principal, Rev. A.

8vo. 62 pp.

DISCOURSE ON ART. By Hon. Horace P. Biddle. Lafayette, Ia. 8vo. 32 pp.

ANNUAL REPort of the NEW YORK OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, for 1854. 8vo. Pp. 16.

Notes and Queries.

WHENCE THE SALTNESS OF SEA-WATER?-"Can you | superbe" signifies, O proud man; "superbis," why do tell me, Mr. Editor, why it is that the water of the great oceans and of some seas is salt? and, also, why some lakes are not salt? I have asked sundry inviduals, but am in the dark somewhat yet."

Answer.—In his "Physical Geography of the Sea," recently published, Lieutenant Maury has the following: "Rivers which are constantly flowing into the ocean contain salts, varying from ten to fifty, and even one hundred grains per gallon. They are chiefly common salt, sulphate and carbonate of lime, magnesia, soda, potash, and iron; and these are found to constitute the distinguishing characteristics of sea-water. The water which evaporates from the sea is nearly pure, containing but very minute traces of salts. Falling as rain upon the land, it wasbes the soil, percolates through the rocky layers, and becomes charged with saline substances, which are borne seaward by the returning currents. The ocean, therefore, is the great depository of every thing that water can dissolve, and carry down from the surface of the continents; and as there is no channel for their escape, they, of course, accumulate. Lakes without any outlet, except evaporation, are invariably salt lakes; and it is curious to observe that this condition or saltness disappears when an artificial outlet is produced for the waters."

A CURIOUS EPITAPH.-This epitaph is said to have been taken from a tombstone in Germany, and was published, some years ago, in the London Times:

[blocks in formation]

Mox eris quod ego nunc

te abit

you vaunt or boast; "superbia," pride; and "superabit," will overcome, subdue, or vanquish; "terra" means earth or dust; "in terram," into dust; and "ibis" signifies you will go.

HALCYON DAYS-WHAT ARE THEY?-The halcyon was the ancient name of the kingfisher, which was falsely said to lay its eggs in the sea during the calm weather, about the winter solstice. Hence came the proverbial expression "halcyon days," denoting the seven days before and as many after the winter solstice, when the weather was calm. Sir Thomas Brown, in his "Vulgar mark: "All creatures know not only the means, but Errors," volume two, page 433, makes the following rethe times of their preservation; and, therefore, the halcyon, knowing that at winter solstice there is such a calm, chooses that time to hatch his young, as the crows did in 1652, when the mildness of January was such that they, supposing the spring was coming on, did build their nests, and, as I was credibly informed, some did hatch their brood."

BEAVER HATS.-"Can you tell me, Mr. Editor, the origin of the word beaver as applied to hats? Is it derived from the animal of the same name, the fur of which is used in the manufacture of them? CRITICUS."

Answer.-Etymologists tell us that beaver is derived tion is said to have had its origin in the practice folfrom the Italian word bevere, to drink; and the appellalowed by the knights formerly of converting the helmet into a drinking vessel, when more suitable cups were not at hand. Our English word beverage is also said to be from the same Italian root. We will not, however, vouch for the correctness of the views of the etymologists in this case.

QUERY. "If we pronounce been as though it was spelled

A lady correspondent of the New York Observer gives bin, why not pronounce seen as though it was spelled sin? the following solution and translation of it:

SOLUTION.

O superbe, quid superbis? tua superbia, te superabit. Ter-ra es, et in terram i-bis

Mox eris quod ego nunc.

[blocks in formation]

Please answer, or request some of your literary correspondents to do so." [Will some of our critics relieve us of this job?-EDITOR.]

WINDFALL. The origin of this term is said to be the following: Some of the nobility of England, by the tenure of their estates, were forbidden felling any of the trees in the forests upon them, the timber being reserved for the use of the royal navy. Such trees as fell without cutting were the property of the occupant. A tornado was, therefore, a perfect godsend, in every sense of the term, to those who had occupancy of extensive forests; and the windfall was sometimes of very great value.

318

Mirror of Apothegm, Wit, Repartee, and Anecdote.

A D. D. UPSET.-When Dr. Beecher was President of Lane Seminary, he had a carriage and a white horse, and could be seen very frequently making his journeys from Walnut Hills to Cincinnati and back again. One dark night, as he was driving home with his wife and daughter-Mrs. H. B. Stowe-in the carriage, the party were upset over a bank about fifteen feet high. They had no sooner extricated themselves from the wreck than Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Stowe, who were unhurt, returned thanks for their providential escape. "Speak for yourselves," said the Doctor, who was feeling his bruises; "I have had a good many bumps any how."

PARTICULAR AND GENERAL SINS.-James Russell Lowell, who was a short time since elected to a professorship in Harvard University, enjoys a reputation for satire as well as solemnity in verse. Here is a capital hit from him at a certain class of men altogether too abundant in community:

"I'm willin' a man should go tollable strong
Agin wrong in the abstract, for that kind of wrong
Is allers unpoplar an' never gets pitied,
Because it's a crime no one ever committed;
But he mustn't be hard on partiklar sins,

Coz then he'll be kickin' the people's own shins."
THE BOY WHAT GOD MADE.-An instructor of some
extremely ignorant children was desirous that they
should make a good appearance before visitors who were
expected. She, therefore, placed them in a row, and
taught them by rote the answers to a few questions,
so assorting them that each one could answer correctly
only the interrogatory that was addressed to himself.
Time did not admit of any thing more, and she sup-
posed them sufficiently drilled for the occasion.
questions were simple and direct, beginning with "Who
made you?" "Of what were you made?" etc.

The

The company arrived. The class was marshaled. The first question was put, and the reply given at the top of the voice:

"Out of the dust of the earth."

and gave life to her prayers. He was an intelligent boy,
full of thought and love. He drew near to the new
friend who sought his welfare, for there was none to sow
prejudice in his innocent mind.

She was once speaking to him of that happy world,
where the good are gathered. He had been accustomed
to hear it mentioned as the home of his departed mother.
"What will we do when we get up there?" said the
sweet disciple. "I shall want to be with that ma some,
and with you some."

Then musing a moment, he seemed to find a happy thought as a solution of the difficulty, and asked, with a radiant smile:

"Can't we all sit up close together?”

AN ARITHMETICAL OPERATION.-In "Smith's Federal Calculator" an amusing anecdote is given, to the following purport: A first-rate class was undergoing a close examination in mental arithmetic, and in reply to a question concerning the number of men required to perform a certain piece of work in a specified time, the class responded, "Twelve men and two-thirds." But one bright fellow, more discerning than the others, instantly added, "Twelve men and a boy fourteen years old:" fourteen being the two-thirds of twenty-one, the legal age of manhood. A student of decided "parts," that!

A DIFFERENCE.-In ancient days the celebrated precept was, "Know thyself;" in modern times it has been supplanted by the far more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and every thing about him."

THE TEACHER STUMPED.-It happened in a schoolroom one day, while a class of boys and girls were reciting a lesson in arithmetic. It was about their first

lesson.

"Five from five leaves how many?" asked the teacher
of a little girl of some six years of age.

After a moment's reflection, she answered, "Five."
"How do you make that out?" said the teacher.
Holding her two hands out to him, she said, "Here are

Observing the teacher's disconcerted look, the boy five fingers on my right hand, and five on my other. hastened to explain.

"Ma'am! ma'am! I'm the second boy, and was to say, 'Out of the dust of the earth.' The boy what God made an't here. He warn't well, he said, and so run'd home."

GOOD-NIGHT, MOTHER.-Death came for a fair, little one. He struggled with pain, and then grew still. He noticed little that passed around him, and his lisping voice seemed hushed forever. At length, opening his large eyes for the last time, and probably receiving no light, he said, in the sweetest cadence:

"Good-night, mother!"

Once more-when pulsation had ceased, and it would seem as if the pure spirit were gone-there was a faint murmur, scarcely stirring the white lips:

"Mother! mother! good-night."

Will not their next greeting be the "good-morning"

of heaven?

Two MOTHERS IN HEAVEN.-A second mother was introduced to her new home. Earnest desires to fill wisely this responsible station, especially as regarded the one little child committed to her care, inspired her heart,

Now, if I take the fingers on my right hand away from
the fingers on my left hand, won't five remain?"
The teacher was "stumped," and obliged to "knock
under."

MEMORANDA OF AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY.-The
Buffalo Republic says, "We recently picked up the fol-
lowing memoranda, which we saw dropped by a young
lady attired in an embroidered velvet Talma, an exquisite
Honiton lace collar, a white hat and plume, and a pain-
fully brilliant silk dress, with exaggerated flounces:
"I must get a-Vail,

Sarceknet,
Gluvs,

Broun hoes,
Laise,
Shimmyzet,

Kulone.'

"We confess we were startled at the last item, but think it means cologne. The whole simply proves that wealth and intellect do not always hunt in couples."

POLITENESS. An officer in battle happening to bow, a cannon-ball passed over his head, and took off the head of the soldier who stood behind him. "You see that a man never loses by politeness," said he.

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[ocr errors]

Editor's Table.

OTWAY CURRY.-The beautiful tribute to Otway Curry

in this number was designed for our April issue, but was not received in time. In the death of Mr. Curry one of the bright literary stars of the west passed away from our horizon. He had been for many years a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and his Christian probity, as well as gentlemanly demeanor, won for him the confidence and respect of all who knew him. His dying language was, "I know in whom I have believed." He died at Marysville, O., February 15, 1855, aged fifty-one years. He was a lawyer by profession, had been repeatedly a member of the state Legislature, and was for some time editor of the Scioto Gazette, one of the oldest and best-established papers in the state. In former years he has contributed some beautiful poetic gems for the Ladies' Repository, as well as several prose articles of sterling value. One of the former may be found on the "Excelsior" page of the October number, for 1848, and another on the "Excelsior" page of the December number for the same year. There are few poems of equal sweetness, depth, and power in the English language. It is so appropriate to this occasion, and will be new to so many of our readers, that we insert the latter:

THE GREAT HEREAFTER

"Tis sweet to think, when struggling
The goal of life to win,

That just beyond the shores of time
The better years begin.

When through the nameless ages
I cast my longing eyes,
Before me, like a boundless sea,
The Great Hereafter lies,
Along its brimming bosom
Perpetual summer smiles,
And gathers, like a golden robe,
Around the emerald isles.

There in the blue long distance,
By lulling breezes fanned,

I seem to see the flowering groves
Of old Beulah's land.

And far beyond the islands
That gem the waves serene
The image of the cloudless shore
Of holy heaven is seen.
Unto the Great Hereafter-
Aforetime dim and dark-
I freely now and gladly give
Of life the wandering bark.

And in the far-off haven,
When shadowy seas are passed,
By angel hands its quivering sails
Shall all be furled at last.

GHOST STORIES.-Alice Cary closes in this number a series of articles under the above title. A few have, perhaps, been scared from the reading of them by the "ghost" title. All that is very natural. There are some people who are always imagining there are "ghosts" where there are none, and thus get frightened out of their propriety at a shadow. These articles, by the way, we think, are admirably calculated to rectify many foolish errors, and at the same time they inculcate many

useful lessons.

VIEW OF BUFFALO.-Buffalo occupies a commanding position in Western New York, and is a place of great commercial importance. It is situated at the mouth of Buffalo creek, upon the shore of Lake Erie, and is connected with the Hudson river and New York city by the Erie canal and the Central railroad. Though laid out by the Holland Land Company as early as 1801, it was a place of little importance till 1825, when the completion of the Erie canal gave it an impulse under which it has grown up to be a city of 75,000 inhabitants, with real and personal estate valued at over $27,000,000. Its commerce for a lake port is immense-amounting in the year 1853 to nearly $369,000,000, and the number of arrivals and clearances from the port were no less than 8,298. Between seventy and eighty steamers are owned in the city, and about one hundred and fifty-four sail vessels. The only harbor of which Buffalo can boast is the little creek represented in the foreground, which skirts the southern part of the city, and empties through a confined channel into the Lake. The ground on which the city stands rises gradually to the hight of fifty feet above the Lake, and then spreads out into an extended plain. The city is well laid out-the streets for the most part crossing each other at right angles. Mainstreet is one hundred feet in width, and extends four miles. On the extreme right a train may be seen approaching the depot of the Central railroad; near the western part of the city may be seen the train starting for Niagara Falls; still lower down appears the canal; and in the extreme left we have a view of the Lake shore stretching toward the outlet, which is by the Niagara river.

"THE DEAD ROBIN" introduces us to a domestic scene. The little girl has picked up the dead bird, and, with a heart full of sympathy and sorrow, runs with it to the mother. Her little brother most deeply partakes of her sorrow and sympathy, as his countenance clearly shows. We almost hear the mother exclaim, as she raises her hand, "Poor thing! where did you find it?" Innocence and sympathy are beautiful and inseparable. "Towser"-why is it that we always associate different names with dogs of different appearances?-don't take the matter quite so gravely; he evidently looks upon the whole thing as a rather pleasant "business transaction."

CORRESPONDENTS AND ARTICLES DECLINED.-We are obliged to omit this list for the present month; but our correspondents will hear from us after awhile.

Will the author of the "Soliloquy of a Poor Student" favor us with his address?

EXCERPTA FROM CORRESPONDENCE.-Few of our engravings have spoken more directly to the hearts of thousands than "The Mother's Dream" in the December number of the last volume. Among the many testimonials of its power we have received is the following:

"When the December number of the Ladies' Repository came my little daughter was afflicted with a very sore eye. She was pleased with the 'Mother's Dream;' would point and say, 'Poor baby sick;' 'Got a sore eye, baby?' 'Mamma's sleep,' etc. But I did not see its true beauty till the 'angel' came and took her; then I felt and could realize what it all meant. I now keep it with her miniature, and look at it as often. It helps me to

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors]

"In the Child's Book,' and some other eight or ten juvenile works, she gives a gentle, guarding hand to the new-born stranger; the 'Girl's Book' and 'Boy's Book' were assistants in the home education of her own children; 'Letters to Young Ladies' unfold the important bearings of life's blossoming season; 'Letters to Pupils' and Whispers to a Bride' contemplate still more definite responsibilities; 'Letters to Mothers' reach the climax of womanly duty and happiness; and 'Past Meridian' girds the pilgrim who journeys toward the gates of the

west.

"Some fifteen years since, when those elegant illustrated annuals were new and popular favorites, she believed she saw in them a channel for salutary sentiment | among the more refined circles of her country, and consented to become the editor of two volumes of the 'Religious Souvenir,' replete with high and hallowed literature-writing herself as many articles, and probably devoting more time and labor, than if all their pages had been filled by her own pen.

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

"The traveler in foreign climes finds a companion in her 'Pleasant Memories,' and the patriot in 'Scenes of my Native Land;' the Voice of Flowers' charms the lover of nature; the Weeping Willow' sympathizes with the mourner; 'Water-Drops' flow in the cause of temperance; 'Olive Leaves' wave with the breath of peace; the neglected mariner is remembered in 'Poems for the Sea;' the joyous parent by the cradle side reads her Sayings of the Little Ones;' and the weeper at the grave is soothed by her 'Faded Hope.'

[ocr errors]

"In all her variety of poems, biographies, tales, and miscellanies, more than twenty volumes of which are in active circulation here, as well as on the other side of the ocean, the object is evidently not to shine, but to do good; not to win fame, but to cultivate the affections, and impress those lessons on the heart that fit for Christian duty in this life, and a blessed acceptance in the next."

MISCELLANY.-Dr. Morrison and the Child-When Dr. Morrison was on his way from England to China, he visited New York, and called on an old friend there. This friend received him gladly, and not having expected him, and a bed not being ready, gave up his own bed to him. Beside this bed was a crib, in which a little girl, the daughter of the Doctor's friend, slept; and she being in bed when the Doctor came, was left undisturbed. Early in the morning the little girl awoke, and, as usual, turned herself round toward her parents' bed; but, to her great surprise and terror, she saw, instead of her own dear mother, a strange man in the bed, with

his eyes fixed upon her. The little girl raised herself up in the crib, and looking the Doctor hard in the face, said, "Man, do you pray?" Dr. Morrison immediately answered, "Yes, my dear child. I pray to God every day of my life; he is my best friend." Satisfied that all was well, since the stranger was a man of prayer, she turned around and fell asleep again. Was not the little girl right in trusting herself near even a strange man who loved and feared God, and prayed to him every day?

A Graceful Compliment.—It was a judicious resolution of a father, as well as a most pleasing compliment to his wife, when, on being asked what he intended to do with his girls, he replied, "I intend to apprentice them all to their excellent mother, that they may learn the art of improving time, and be fitted to become, like her, wives, mothers, and heads of families, and useful members of society."

The Money or the Man; or, the Choice of Themistocles.— The daughter of Themistocles being courted by one of little wit and great wealth, and another of little wealth and great goodness, he chose the poor man for his sonin-law. "For," said he, "I will rather have a man without money, than money without a man, reckoning that not money, but worth makes the man."

STRAY GEMS.-The Life Struggle.-Stop not, loiter not, look not backward, if you would be among the foremost! The great Now, so quick, so broad, so fleeting, is yours; in an hour it will belong to the eternity of the Past. The temper of Life is to be made good by big, honest blows; stop striking, and you will do nothing; strike feebly, and you will do almost as little. Success rides on every hour; grapple it, and you may win; but without a grapple, it will never go with you. Work is the weapon of honor, and who lacks the weapon will never triumph.-Reveries of a Bachelor.

If

Truth, Charity, Wisdom.-A Christian in all his ways must have three guides-truth, charity, wisdom. Truth, to go before him; charity and wisdom, on either hand. any of the three be absent, he walks amiss. I have seen some do hurt by following a truth uncharitably; and others, while they would salve up an error with love, have failed in their wisdom, and offended against justice. A charitable untruth, and an uncharitable truth, and an unwise managing of truth or love, are all to be carefully avoided of him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way.-Bishop Hall.

One Side of the World.-Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who tell us only of our merits, so it silences our enemies, from whom we alone can learn our defects.

A Beautiful Thought.-A shepherd lost a sheep with its lamb. He went in pursuit of them. He found them far off in a lonely valley. He tried to drive them home, but was not able. At length he picked up and carried off the lamb, and the mother followed. Thus the Savior brings a mother to himself, by taking away the little

child from her bosom.

How We should Live.-So live with men as considering always that God sees thee; so pray to God as if every man heard thee. Do nothing which thou wouldst not have God see done. Desire nothing which may either wrong thy profession to ask, or God's honor to grant.

Begin Early-It is better to throw a guard about the baby's cradle than to sing a psalm at a bad man's death-bed; better to have care while the bud is bursting to the sun than when the heat has scorched the heart of the unguarded bosom.

« EelmineJätka »