subject, but it is a pleasant testimony that I am able to give, after a close examination, that in the process of instructing the deaf mute, it has been a question with me, whether there be any disadvantage, as to their religious welfare, in the loss of human sounds of folly and error, which mislead and direct so many others. There has been an abundant success in developing the conscience, warming into life their religious sentiments, and establishing direct communion with the Father of Spirits. 6. We rejoice, therefore, in the privilege of taking part in the services of this occasion. We count it a pleasant thing to be present at the beginning of an edifice, where ample accommodations shall invite multitudes of the afflicted to its fostering care. We welcome them not only to a safe shelter, to kindly protection, to useful arts, but to the teachings and consolations of religion. We congratulate those who will come after us, afflicted like those who are now with us, in the advantages which will accrue to them from what we have founded to-day. 7. Now let Knowledge and Religion receive and educate them on these pleasant lawns,let their playful feet find recreation long after our own have rested from the pilgrimage of life. Here may God speak to them in the vision of the morning, and of the stars; and within the chapel, here to be consecrated to His worship, may generations be prepared for the Temple on high, where no tongue is silent, and no ear is deaf. QUESTIONS.-1. What was the boast of Augustus Cæsar? 2. Of what was Rome unable to boast? 3. What have painters studied to do? 4. In what chapter and verse of the Bible is the word "Ephphatha" to be found? Ans. Mark, 7th chapter, 34th verse. 5. What is alluded to in the phrase "vicarious speech"? (See Note at the foot of preceding page.) 6. What classes of persons are meant in the words, "His afflicted children?" 7. What interesting psychological inquiries are suggested in regard to them? 8. In what has there been abundant success? 9. With what wish does this piece close? Are the questions in the 2d paragraph direct or indirect? What inflection to each? LESSON CLXV. SPELL AND DEFINE-1. SOR' DID, vile; base. 2. SUB' SIST, exist continue. 3. SENS' U AL IST, one given to the indulgence of the bodily appetites. 4. RE CIP' RO CA TED, interchanged; mutual. 5. IM PLI' ED, involved; included by inference. 6. AR RO GANCE, presumption; conceit. 7. SIN' IS TER, corrupt; evil. 8. DIS TORT ED, perverted 9. SUF FICE, to be enough, or sufficient. 10. EN CROACH' ING, intrud ang; claiming what belongs to another. 11. SORU' PLE, hesitate. 12. AS PER SION, calumny; false accusation. 13. DIS SEN SION, Strife discord. 14. SIM I LAR I TY, likeness; resemblance. 15. DE OLEN SION, a falling off; decay. THE TEST OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP. WILLIAM COWPER. 1. No friendship will abide the test, 2. Who seeks a friend should come disposed 3. Mutual attention is implied, Our own as much distorted. 4. But will sincerity suffice? 5. A fretful temper will divide 6. How bright soe'er the prospect seems, 7. As envy pines at good possessed, Ön good that seems approaching; And hates him for encroaching. 8. A man renowned for repartee, 9. Whoever keeps an open ear 10. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back, How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need 11. A similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention; 12. The noblest friendship ever shown, 13. O friendship, if my soul forego Or may my friend deceive me! QUESTIONS.-1. What kind of friendship will not abide the test 2 What bespeaks reciprocated duties? 3. What is senseless arrogance 4. What must be made the basis? 5. What must constitute the charming whole? 6. What will a fretful, passionate temper do! 7. What is asserted of envy? 8. What, of an envious man? 9. What is said of jealousy? 10. What, of a man renowned for repartee? 11. What will lead to dissension? 12. Can you repeat the 10th stanza? 13. What first fixes our attention? 14. What must prevent declension? 15. What is the noblest friendship ever shown 16. What wish is expressed in the closing stanza! Why What is the use of the apostrophes in the words, ť exhibit, t' aocuse, 2d and 3d stanzas? See Sanders' Spelling Book, p. 158. are they abbreviated? Ans. For the sake of the meter LESSON CLXVI. 4. SFELL AND DEFINE-1. PRO GRESS' IVE, advancing; rising in grade. 2. E THE RE AL, heavenly. 3. VOID, vacancy; empty space. GRA DA TION, a degree in any order or series. 5. ES SEN TIAL, necessary; indispensable. 6. ORB' IT, the path or course of a planet in its periodical revolution. 7. HURL ED, thrown with violence. 8. RE PIN' ED, grumbled; murmured. 9. EN GINES, instruments of action; means; agents. 10. AB SURD', contrary to reason · foolish. 11. STU PEND' Ous, astonishing; amazing; vast in extent. 12. UFER ATES, performs; acts. 13. RAPT, enraptured; entranced ORDER OF CREATION. ALEXANDER POPE 1. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed; 2. And if each system in gradation roll 3. What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, 4. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, |