August.

IT WAS AN EVE OF AUTUMN'S HOLIEST MOOD,

THE CORN-FIELDS, BATHED IN CYNTHIA'S SILVER LIGHT, STOOD READY FOR THE REAPERS' GATHERING HAND;

AND ALL THE WINDS SLEPT SOUNDLY: NATURE SEEMED

IN SILENT CONTEMPLATION TO ADORE

ITS MAKER.

AUGUST.

AUGUST 1.

THE BEST WAY OF GETTING OUT OF SELF.

The best way to free ourselves from harassing thoughts, is to pray for our friends. We understand but little how St. Paul could find time for this holy occupation; but when we read in his epistle, that he prayed by day and by night, for the churches and for his private friends, we may be sure that this assertion was strictly true, and no mere figure of speech. Let us not wait till a leisure hour to be at our disposal, before we follow his example. Indeed, the best moments we can select for presenting our friends before the throne of grace, are precisely those when our minds are most engrossed by our own personal interests; these may of a sudden become very frequent, and very perplexing; we may not even know where to begin our prayers, and how to end

August 13.

THE TOWER OF BABEL THROUGH ALL

GENERATIONS.

Some will say in their high-swelling imaginations, that they need no Redeemer, no ransom, no Reconciler, no atonement, no pardon; that they can find the way to God by themselves; that they can build up a tower of their own virtuesgrand and gorgeous tower, virtue above virtue he top of which shall reach to heaven. Such have been more or less in all ages; and the ir devices have been baffled, has ever been

by the confusion of tongues. They unable to understand one another's