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would petrify or rot. The best ages of the world are always those in which the two principles are the most equally balanced. In such ages, every enlightened man ought to adopt both principles into his whole mind and conduct, and with one hand develop what he can, with the other restrain and uphold what he ought.

IV.

LOVE DUE TO THE CREATOR.

G. GRIFFIN.

1. AND ask ye why He claims our love'?
O, answer, all ye winds of even !
O, answer, all ye lights above,

That watch in yonder darkening heaven!
Thou Earth, in vernal radiance

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As when His angels first arrayed thee,
And thou, O deep-tongued Ocean, say

Why man should love the Mind that made thee!

2. There's not a flower that decks the vale,

There's not a beam that lights the mountain,
There's not a shrub that scents the gale,
There's not a wind that stirs the fountain,
There's not a hue that paints the rose,
There's not a leaf around us lying,

But in its use or beauty shows

True love to us, and love undying.

V.

INFLUENCE OF GOLD.

ADDISON.

A MAN who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a won

derful clearer of the understanding. It dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon1 was a man of most invincible reason in this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb, and, at length, argued them out of all their liberties.

VI.

INGRATITUDE.

SHAKSPEARE.

1. BLOW, blow, thou winter wind,

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude:

Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

2. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,

Thy sting is not so sharp

As friend remembered not.

VII.

THE BIBLE.

WAYLAND.

THAT the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in man, under every variety of character, learned or ignorant, civilized or savage, that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of

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healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations, that they teach men to love right, to hate wrong, and to seek each other's welfare, as the children of one common Parent, that they control the baleful passions of the human heart, and thus make men proficient in the science of self-government,—and, finally, that they teach him to aspire after a conformity to a Being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes infinitely more purifying, more exalted, more suited to his nature, than any other which this world has ever known, are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.

VIII.

THE MOMENTS.

J. L. EGGLESTON.

1. THE moments are little and unseen things;
Light forms have they, and unseen wings;
They glide o'er our heads with the morning's beam,
And slip from our grasp with the day's last gleam;
They tick in our ears with the staid old clock;
They stand at our hearts, and there warningly knock;
They bid us not loiter, if Fame we would win ;
They knock, and entreat us to gather them in.

2. O, list to the moments! though little they seem,
They are bearing your bark on a swift, silent stream;
And onward, still onward, you glide from the shore,
To that vast, boundless ocean where time is no more.
Take heed to the moments; for with them they bear
Of gems the most precious, and diamonds rare.
Take care of the moments; for life's but a span ;
Then carefully hoard them, O vain, dreaming man!

IX.

THE WAR-HORSE.

BOOK OF JOB.

HAST thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth cn to meet the armed men.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear, and the shield.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, ha!" and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

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SECLUSION.

BEATTIE.

Он, how canst thou renounce the boundless store
Of charms which Nature to her votary yields?
The warbling woodland, the resounding shore,
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields,
All that the genial ray of morning gilds,
And all that echoes to the song of even,
All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields,
And all the dread magnificence of heaven,-

Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven?

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XI.

THE POWER OF LITTLE THINGS.

SMILES.

1. WHEN Franklin' made his discovery of the identity of lightning and electricity, it was sneered at, and people asked,—“ Of what use is it?" To which his apt reply was, "What is the use of a child? It may become a man! When Galvani3 discovered that a frog's leg twitched when placed in contact with different metals, it could scarcely have been imagined that so apparently insignificant a fact could have led to important results. Yet therein lay the germ of the Electric Telegraph, which binds the intelligence of continents together, and probably, before many years elapse, will "put a girdle around the globe." So, too, little bits of stone and fossil, dug out of the earth, intelligently interpreted, have issued in the science of geology, and the practical operations of mining, in which large capitals are invested, and vast numbers of persons profitably employed.

2. The gigantic machinery employed in pumping our mines, working our mills and manufactories, and driving our steam-ships and locomotives, in like manner, depends for its supply of power upon so slight an agency as particles of water expanded by heat. The steam which we see issuing from the common tea-kettle, when pent up within an ingeniously-contrived mechanism, displays a force equal to that of millions of horses, and contains a power to rebuke the waves, and to set even the hurricane at defiance. Nay, it is the same power at work within the bowels of the earth, which has been the cause of many of those semi-miraculous catastrophes-volcanoes and earthquakes-that have played so mighty a part in the history of the globe.

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