sell his soul in such extremity, were the black bottle denied him, for a gulp. Not to save his soul from eternal fire would he, or rather could he, if left alone with it, refrain from pulling out the plug, and sucking away at destruction. What a snout he turns up to the morning air! inflamed, pimpled, snubby, and snorty, and with a knob at the end on't, like one carved out of a stick by the knife of a schoolboy-rough and hot to the very eye-a nose which, rather than pull, you would submit even in some degree to be insulted. A perpetual cough harasses and exhausts him, and a perpetual expectoration. How his hand trembles. It is an effort even to sign his name; one of his sides is certainly not by any means as sound as the other; there has been a touch of palsy there, and the next hint will draw down his chin to his collar-bone, and convert him, a month before dissolution, into a slavering idiot. There is no occupation, small or great, insignificant or important, to which he can turn, for any length of time, his hand, his heart, or his head.Professor Wilson. Brunkenness. -- Spoils the health, unhinges the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, impudent, dangerous, and mad. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. The natural disposition may be better known in drunkenness than at any other time. In modern society life is all a disguise. Every man walks in masquerade, and his most intimate friend very often does not know his real character. Many wear smiles constantly upon their cheeks, whose hearts are unprincipled and treacherous. Many, with violent tempers, have all the external calm and softness of charity itself. Some speak always with sympathy, who, at soul, are full of gall and bitterness. Intoxication tears off the veil, and sets each in his true light, whatever that may be. The combative man will quarrel, the sensualist will love, the detractor will abuse his neighbour. Exceptions have been known, bnt they are very few in number. Buels. Duels afford no proof of courage-drive a coward into a corner, and he will play the hero. The combatants very rarely meet upon equal terms. Buty. The only thing which one can do, and the only one we need do. - Powers depart, Possessions vanish, and opinions change, The colour of our life is generally such as the first three or four years, in which we are our own masters, make it.Cowper. Early Rising. Make it a golden rule, each morn, with upraised eyes, Get up early! time is precious; waste it not in bed. Get up early! while the dew-drops o'er the fields are spread. Get up early! while the sweet birds sing their morning chime. Earnestness. Of necessity there must be great earnestness. Nothing is promised to the lukewarm. For the trifler, the thoughtless, the unearnest, there is no hope. Not that the woman or F man of God ought to be of demure face, shunning the amenities and prettinesses of life; O no! the Christian ought to be blithe and happy, and there should always dwell in his eyes a certain friendliness to smiles. A channel of joy should he be, a flush of continual sweet light, a rainbow of many colours, and all of them beautiful. Nevertheless, under all outward fun and nonsense there must be seriousness at bottom; levity is only graceful in those who have deeper things in them than that; and then only is the merry laugh, the gleesome caper, and the roguish freak, beautiful. Ears. Side intelligencers.-Charles Lamb. Earth. What is earth, sexton ?-a place to dig graves; Echo. Daughter of air and tongue, Which the last of dying speech retorts, Economy. Care preserves what Industry gains. He who attends to his business diligently, but not carefully, throws away with one hand what he gains with the other. — It is no small commendation to manage a little well. He is a good waggoner that can turn in a little room. I will study more how to give a good account of my little than how to make it more.-Bishop Hall. Economy is one of the chief duties of a state, as well as of an individual. It is not only a great virtue in itself, but is the parent of many others. It preserves men and nations from the commission of crime, and the endurance of misery. The man who lives within his income can be just, humane, charitable, and independent. He who lives beyond it, becomes, almost necessarily, rapacious, mean, faithless, contemptible. The economist is easy and comfortable; the prodigal harassed with debts, and unable to obtain the necessary means of life. So it is with nations. National character, as well as national happiness, has, from the beginning of the world to the present day, been sacrificed on the altar of profusion. Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, cheerfulness, and health; and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt. A per "Waste not, want not," is a good old proverb. "He that is faithful over little, is faithful also in much." son who takes no care of the materials committed to his hands by his master will never duly husband his own property. Economy and wastefulness are habits that will influence us in all things, both when we are engaged about our own substance or that of another. To waste another's goods is the same as to rob him. The loss in both cases is equal, and the principle whence they spring very much alike. The man who takes care of his employer's goods is sure to look after his own, and thus is on the road to prosperity. It would be difficult to calculate the immense loss of property that every year occurs from carelessness and want of economy. Some persons are worth nearly half their wages more than others, because they never injure or waste anything. The employer being wealthy, or the stock abundant, is no excuse for carelessness. A loss is a loss, and a robbery is a robbery, whether taken from the heap of the miser or the smaller store of the indigent. "Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost," is a divine command. Heaven allows nothing to be destroyed. There has not been a single drop of water wasted from the creation until now. The decomposed elements of autumn are the elements of the following spring. Economy, a rigid economy, is one of the laws of nature; and we shall not realize "the good time coming' until we have a careful and economical world. Let this spirit prevail, and not only will the master be saved from loss, but, in many instances, the servant will rescue himself from the union. The arithmetic of a good wife, who adds to her husband's happiness, subtracts from his cares, multiplies his joys, divides his sorrows, and practices reduction in the expenditure of pounds, shillings, and pence. Education. Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress -no clime destroy-no enemy alienate-no despotism enslave. At home, a friend-abroad, an introduction-in solitude, a solace-in society, an ornament. It checks vice-it guides virtue-it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave! a reasoning savage! vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God, and the degradation of brutal passion. If a married man all his life long should do no other good thing, than educate his child right in the fear of God, then, I think, this may be an atonement for his neglects. The greatest work which thou canst do is even this—that thou educatest thy child well.-Luther. |