tions and sentiments, inspiring a sort of frenzy, in which is seen that strange, grand power of mind with and over mind, in which at length all minds are reduced to one one person thinking, breathing, act

ing, and speaking for all the rest.

"Let these great functions of the Christian pulpit fall into feeble and timid hands, fall into hands weaker than those that steer the ship of state, handle the law, or the sacred mysteries of the human frame, or manage the immediate interests of human industry and of social life, and while, for a time, society may continue to live and thrive upon the accumulated capital of a faith which many generations of reverence and religious fidelity have stored up, it will sooner or later come to the end of its resources." DR. BELLOWS.

"God will curse that man's labors who goes idly up and down all the week, and then goes into his study on a Saturday afternoon. God knows that we have not too much time to pray in, and weep in, and get our hearts into a fit frame for the duties of the Sabbath." REV. THOMAS SHEPARD.

"On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as right enterprise." HAFIZ.

“Let every young man, whose eye rests on the heights of distinction or usefulness, understand that they will not be reached by the broad and easy road of acquisition which is opened in modern times, but by the old-fashioned, narrow way, ascending ruggedly, where toil will harden the tendons of the soul; such sinews will deal out heavy and effectual blows."

"Men had rather have learned than learn." QUINTILIAN.

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"To such I render more than mere respect,

Whose actions say that they respect themselves.
But loose in morals, and in manners vain,
In conversation frivolous, in dress
Extreme, at once rapacious and profuse;
Frequent in park, with lady at his side,
Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes;
But rare at home, and never at his books
Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card;
Constant at routs, familiar with a round
Of ladyships - a stranger to the poor;
Ambitious of preferment for its gold,

And well prepared, by ignorance and sloth,
By infidelity and love of world,

To make God's work a sinecure; a slave

To his own pleasure and his patron's pride;
From such apostles, O ye mitred heads,

Preserve the church! and lay not careless hands
On skulls that cannot teach and will not learn."

COWPER.

"Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or another, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess, don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the name and moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of a check? Do you not think we should look with disapprobation amounting to scorn upon the father who allowed his son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight?

"Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more

or less, of those connected with us, do depend on our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well the highest stakes are paid with that overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength, and one who plays ill is checkmated, without haste, but without remorse." HUXLEY.

"In every age the kind of education and spiritual culture by means of which the age hopes to lead mankind to the knowledge of the ascertained part of the Divine Idea, is the learned culture of the age; and every man who partakes in this culture is the scholar of the age." FICHTE.

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