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POERTRY.

LIFT HIM UP Lying so low in th Degraded and block wil With germents tattered ind tiltt More shattered and f

and bruta! ace divine, sions had made for the swise

flis face has grown ugly And lost is each t: The reign of bis pa Companion alone

hima

they tell us him by; reach him,

< and die

‘ Fie is too far gone Ali they who pass

* Impossibli« now to So be is lef to siz

He was once somehody’s darling, That man so degraded ani vile,

And the heart of sume one that loved him Was once mate giad by his smile.

Those lips that now breathe but cursing A mother's kiss ence pressed,

And that hair, once soft and golder A sisier's hand caressed

Those eyes, now blesred and soulless, Once lighted with love's bright glow

And the tre of the soul within them | Buraoed with thoughts thatangels knew. |

Let your tear ‘drops of pity, fall Upon these darkened leaves, Resting bere—‘ Possible ali things All, ‘to him that believes

Friends of Temperan ®, this is your Mission, Strong ia Love's power to save,

With @ svmpatby ewrnest, untiring @o, bring him up from the grave '

a oe THE MAIDEN'’S LAMENT. The clouds fasi gather, The forest-onks roar— | A maiden is sitting Beside the green shore— The billows are breaking with might, And she sighs aloud in the darkening night, | Her eyelid heavy with weeping.

* My heart's dead within me, The world is a void ; To the wish it gives nothing, Each hope is destroyed { have tasted the fullness of bliss below, ft have liv'd, | have fov'd—thy child, oh iake

now, Thou Holy One, into thy keeping!

Ia vain is thy sorrow, In vain thy tears fall, Fer the dead from their siumbers i They ne'er can recall : Yet !faught can pour comfort aad balm in thy heart, Now that love its sweet pleasures no more | can impart, Speak thy wish, and thou granted shall find it!’

* Though in vain is my sorrow, Though in vain my tears fall— Though the dead from their slumbers They ne'er can recall, Yes no balm ts so sweet to the desolate heart, When love its soft pleasures no more can

impart, As the torments that love leaves behind it! —Schiller. A SAILORS STORY.

One shori voyage from Philadelphia t Havana 1 was in the habit of remaining on | deck at nightfall, to enjoy the wild yet charm- fag prospect of the sé One evening, as was my wont, I was walking the deck in rapturous d: watching the rising of the full-orbed moon from the water bound horizon, when an old sailor approach- oi me and remarked—

‘ Sir, you seem delig!ted with the appear- arce of this watery world, lit up by that lovely orb yonder, lifting itself from the rip- pling wives”

* Indeed, sir, | am,’ i replied, pleased to be Joined by a congenial companion.

‘J am an old tér.’ he continued, ‘and I heve offer seen tlese elements that now lie so pass: vely quiet, lashed to such fury as to eppa! the stoutest hearts.’

* Doubtless,’ I returned

* Ves. sir; and yet, these in all their pow- er and fury have never filled me with such fear as the puny arm of man

* Ah, indeed,’ said I: ‘an interesting story you bave connected with this, no doubt? If 90, please relate it.’

Leasing the way to svats, which we took, be replied—

*] beve; andas 1 have jeisure just now. | wil} spin you my yarn.’

‘ftis now,’ pursued he, ‘well on to @ quarter of a century since the incident I am about to place.’ U was then, though young, boatswiin as ] am now, and of as tine a ship as ever *pread canvas before the breeze; her captain and crew, also, were es jolly a set of fellows a3 ever manned a ves- sel.

*Uur vessel was at that the East Indian trade. And just as we were leaving, on one occasion a port in that coun- wy, @ missionary came on board with two sickly lads, apparently of the ages of respect- ively of twelve and fourteen, and earnestly hesought us to take them to America, to their peopie, fres of charge, as their parents were dead, and they were i: clime, without money or friends.

* Of course iley were taken, but quite res luctantly, I'm sorry to say. For we mortals, my kind sir, are unmind’ul that God often presents claims on our charity, that be may do us a special good. For these timid lads, the bereaved orphans of a pious missionary proved to be the guardian angel of our ungenerous crew, for we did not treat them kindly; they e made the unhappy

i by moonlight.

light,

relate took

time engaged in

this uncongenia!

$s, as it were,

wer

; what manner to dispose of us.

| volcanic action.

threats ; atlempted to scale the rock lodged in the

‘It was very strange to us that no signal, as preconecerted, had heen given; and very sudden, indeed, must have been their cap-

ture or death, that they conld not, at least,

Rul ur have fired a gun, that ther

Our greatest fears were 2 were pirates—-as if was a Very in-

viting quarter for such characters—that hed |

thus suddenly anil silenced our

quietly friends

‘We had now only tive men leit, including the captain, the mate, and myself; and as

night was now approaching we deemed it

necessary to make some preparations for re- ling boarders, should the vessel beattack-

od during the night, as we believed it would

}rupted the captain, authoritatively

}

be, for of course we very natura.ly imagined the island invested with the most ferocious | men, Whose design was to capture our ship | and cargo

A heavy fog hung on the air, rendering

the night intensely d

penetrate the gloom a fathom beyond the and just before daylight, sure enough, the pirates came, boarded the ves- sei and stabbed and threw the sentinel over-

$ hip 3 sides

board, ‘ Being actively on the alert, however, we heard the sound of the disturbance, though

lark, the lights did not |

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slight, and instantly rushed upon deck, each |

armed with a sabre and a vessel filled with boiling oil. We made for the intruders just as they were throwing the body of the sen- oard, intending to give thema scalding reception followed up by the sabre ;

tinal over

but before we could accomplish this we were |

taken all aback by stunning blows given by men approaching from behind, which felled us to the deck.

«When we recovered our senses we found our hands securely pinioned, and the pirates making prepsrations to convey us on skore. Why we had rot been killed outright at

oe ee eee ee place, and on our way homeward bound we

meant to do so we had no doubt; serious ap- prehensions seized us that a more cruel death awaited us, for we discovered that our cap- tors were Spaniards who bore the stamp of the most crvel and abandoned wretches, who had a fiendish thirst for blood

| ers on board, where they were well secured. |

|

Leaving two of their number on deck to |

guard the vessel, they took us and went on shore, reaching which we proceeded a short distance toward the interior, where we found a large cave, which wi Here, to our surprise, we found our missing comrades ;

entered. they were pinioned, and looking pale and ghastly with terror

‘At daylight to breakfast, and to consult over their wine in They con- tinued eating and drinking, until inflamed

our captors proceeded

with wine, they They seized

began clamoring for our destruction. their heavy cut-

lasses and began whetting them, occasional- ly running their fingers on the edge as if to

} ascertain their sharpness, atthe same time

leering at us wilh tantalizing grins.

We were now thrust out of the cave and marched upadeep chasm that ran up the mountain side. This chasm seemed to have been

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lava in times long ago; the island, bore marks of rhe chasm, just atits en- had once been an active the

ior

and indeed the whole

what very

trance into

‘rater, Was narrow, walls being

igh on either hand

The « save at the single point at which we found

rater was narrow and inaccessible

ingress—a tit place fue such diabolical work.

As we were being driven to the centre of the

crater, which, by the way, was but a short |

| distance, our captors clamoring loudly about |

the manner of doing their murderous work, a loud crash was heard, proceeding trom the Instantly all was stood with bated

direction of the entrance. silence, and turning, we breath gazing in the direction of the sound ; but as no other disturbance arose, ovr mourn- ful procession went on till it reached the | bottom of the crater. ‘ Arriving here our captors began drawing | their bright blades, for they had no other | arm¢—and two of them seized the poor mate | and thrust hita aside to be the first victim of | this diabo!‘cai holocaust. hen, sir, the prayers of the poor sailors that went up were enough, it seems, to have moved the solid rocks that hung around this disma! scene, but which was ali lost on these incarnate fiends, ‘ Thrusting their intended

victim on his} knees, they raised their cruel blades and | brought them down with but the poor fellow by suddenly falling flat | did nut- receive their full Again, in| savage delight, they raised them for another | ! But hark ! just as these savage arms |

\ stunning force ; | effect

blow are ascending, the loud report of two mus- kets from the top of the precipice broke upon the air, they are shivered, and the two ruffi-

ans fall quivering to the ground! |

in turn ; entrance,

Consternation now seized them and they fled in dismay to the leaving us and their dead comrades behind, for whom thev now had no thought,

‘ Arriving at the entrance, to their horror they found it closed! and worse still, they beheld two bright guns bearing upon them, They stopped short, who

held by invisible hands

and with terrified shouts demanded

were there, atthe same time making horrid

but no respone came. One then

pass, then a voice came from behind the warning him to was the was across kind of a fe voice of one of the missionary Loys. The

| ruffians emboldened by its eflieminacy, shout.

far as to flog them. And, sir, I verily be- | ; acct ; sees ia eds unk i 38 eth 3 sid ed out for him to go on, for it was the voice or 0 cindness to these bereav- | whereupon he rushed forward,

. | of a woman ; ed ones, God saw fit to punish us; '

victims of our cruel pranks, and of our spite in our angry moments

| rocks, desist—it

ind the mate, who | »w, often went so

leastwavs

we were made to see and fecl our helples but at the crack of one of the muskets he ae 60 9° if ei O i pless- fell. pess, ano entire dependence on them for ‘ , ; , i ‘In the meantime, the Captain and one our ives } | other had so far recovered themselves, as to ‘After having crossed the great Indian

seize, though with their hands still tied, the | cutlasses of the two men who had been shot, | and severing their cords and those of their

Ocean, steering toward Good Hlope, we were evertaken by a violent storm, which continu-

rove us off our

ed several! days, and which: « course & great way bore down on a desolate and island. Extending out from this were long ledges of rocks, against which the sea was | dashing and roaring mos! furiously. These ledges ran out from the shore at two points, | resembling somewhat hug» crab's claws, and | met, or nearly 0, in front of the ‘Every effort to weather these proved unavailing, but as were nesrer and nearer to them moment to be dashed to pisces, to Joy we discovered that bet ween the extremi-~ ties of these ledges thers was a narrow chan- nel, through which the sea swept smoothly into a quiet litle harbor formed by the cir

| at length yuntainous |

0 ve

me

j island.

safely we driven expecting every our great |

Cuinjacent rocks; ani | skilful manage-~ ment of the vessel, we ran her safely through

arttl i

this channe) into the end were safe In a

harbor beyond, moment @il was joy, |

where just the moment before all the horrors of death were belore us *We cast anchor, an proceeded to set

things to rights, me aningt aS soon as th morning, 4s the sea was sailing, three of the men lowered a boat and j went on shore to look for game, and i turning as soon as expects it Was feared, } at length, that something serious had befal- | jen them. In consequence, four others were sent on shore to look afiar them: these tended and soon disapperred in the thick woode that jined the shores. and after waits img jong and anxiously for some tidings from them, 404 nore coming, serious alarm began to prey upon us that al! was not bt. * What could be the mystery? What did | i eli mean ? was the anxious query of all, as We stood with gaze iixed shore. The captein and mate walked the deck with anxious steps, constantly applys img their Glasses, surveyin.: the wild shores ; Dut nothing of life could be seen, all was sis “heat and stil) as the sulieo rusged mountain shat loomed gp before item.

sail from thence Next | tor

water wi “a perinit

too rough

not res |

j

intently on the | manded his cutlass.

comrades, they followed after the pirates, | determined to assist those who seemed en- gaged in our behalf.

‘Approaching the spot, to our—(for we had followed up)—great surprise we found

| our little timid wards, standing boldly up

with guns in their hands, and holding at bay the infuriated ruffians.

‘ Caplin, said the eldest, fiis little voice

; ringing oul musically among the wild re-

cesses of the rock; ‘ advance to these men, you and the other man that has a sword, and receive their cullasses; the man that refuses to give up his eutlass shall be instantly shot.”

‘ Then drawing themselves down again to their guns, which were resting on roeks bes fore them, they made ready to execute their The pirates raved and cursed with terrible oaths, and commanded the boys to throw down their guns, but they were not to be thus intimidated ; they could |

threat, if need ne,

sve their adyantage, and meant to keep it. ‘ We encouraged them, though at a great risk, notto fear, but to stand firm, and to

shoot every man who dared to offer us harm, !

| or refused to give up his cutlass.

‘ We will, we will! never fear! the means and the determination not give you up,’ they cried.

* Turning to the pirates, they said ;

‘We speak once more. Surrender up the arms or be shot!’ Then turning again to us, they said;

‘ Captain, step up, and demand the cutlass of one of the men at a time, and either re- ceive his cutlass or take it, for if they refuse we will shoet them down instantly.’

* The Captain advanced to one of the men, who secowled savagely upon him, and de- The pirates, all in a breath, shouted to him not to give it up;

whereupon he raised the weapon to strike the captain, but the instant he did this he received his death. The eaptain instantly | seized the fallen weapon and tossed it to one of hie own men.

We have : we will

* A howl of curses went up from the mad- raved and gnashed but they dared not

dened wretches, who their teeth upen strike, those death+dealing muskets were so close and unerring that to strike was certain death ; and three with equal arms, quite formidable.

Us;

‘ Fully convinced now that further resis- tance to the captain and drawled out—

‘ Swear that you will spare-—

* We will swear nothing about it, inter~ ‘ but we mean to take you and deliver you up lo the authorities of the law. So unship those weapons this instant, or meet death !’

‘ One after another now reluctantly threw

i} down his cutlass, which you may depend,

no sooner felt from their hands than it was seized hy us

‘ Being completely our pieces of ropes were secured that hai been severed from our hands, With which we pin-

in power now,

ioned them sufficiently till we could reach | the ship where they would be better secured, | Then by piling uprocks for steps over the

boulders Iving in ihe pass, we all got over,

dragging with us our reluctant, sullen pri- |

soners.

‘ With the simultaneous expressions of joy, one after another of our grateful number caught up and embraced the youthful com. panions of our deliverance, and with hearts felt gratitude extolled them for their bravery and noble daring.

‘ We lost no time in conveying our prison-

Then the cave was hastily searched, and from among the plunder found there we found evidence that the pirates were subjects of Spain, for the capture of whom that gov- ernment was offering a large reward

‘ Accordingly, we set sail from that horrid

touched at Spain and delivered soners—thirteen number—and our reward; but not having the ringleaders, who were at sea, we did not receive so much,

up our pri-

in received

However, it was a handsome sum, and gladly received it for the henefit of our little liberators, to whom we generously gave every cent of the money

* Now, the boys’ part of the story is simply this: so soon as they ascertained that we

had been overpowered and all had left the

| ship, they slyly crept from their hiding-place | in the hold, each with a musket, which they

j

| pirates.

cut, as it were, by a torrent of molten | mountain |

had carried with them when the affair be- gan, and slyly looking up through the hatch- way they espied the two men left to guard the ship sitting with their backs toward them. of firearms, the usé of which they had learn- ed from the British soldiers in India. they at the So placing the muzzles of the guns

Being quite familiar with the species

determined to discharge them two on the edge of the deck floor, they discharged them into the bodies of the men, who sank lifeless to the floor.

Emboldened by their suecess thus far, and having a pretty correct idea of their situa- tion if the ship's crew was destroyed, they

| at once determined, mere striplings though

they were, to follow us and altempt our res cue. they boldly set off for the shore,and as we were being led off to meet our fate, they espied us, Keeping well concealed, they followed after us, and when we disappeared through the pass into the large sink or crater, they hur-— ried on to the top of the mountain overlook— ing it. And in attempting to surmount a large boulder, which was rolled with a

below

on equipese, it terrible

Springing up

careened over and

crash into the chasm

| sately they at once saw that it was the mos, } fortunate accident that could have happened ; | for now the pirates could not really escape,

and no point in the crater being out of gun-

| shot, they at once saw how completeiy the |

enemy was entrapped and under their

control.

and besides we were now unbound,

was certain death, their leader turned |

we |

So tilling their pockets with cartridges, |

RANDOM READINGS.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAALS Youth holds no society with grief, Words are women, deeds are men

Our good depends on the quality and breadth ef our emotions. When is a young

When she’s pouting.

lady jike a whale? No other living thing can go so slow asa boy on an errand

Breach of good manners—for ruin to stare you in the tace.

Love is an egolism of tw Phe firstsight of love is the last of wisdom

Ifa saloon-keeper gets rich it is because i¢@ makes many good bar-gains t ; 5 1 I c

What God gives men for step] they often make into stuinbling blocks

iIng-st

Content isto the mind Jike moisture to the

tree; it bindeth it up so asnet to stop its | growth

Questionable—When a man marrys a | poeless, does he take her for better or for

verse ?

| Why is a person who never lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler? ; no better.

| But, says the Boston Globe, it is too late to | bring forward objections now.

The Burlington (lowa) Daily speaks of a couple “resolving themselves into a Commits tee of two, with power to increase the nums | Der.”

The beauty of all worldly things is but asa}

fair picture drawn upon the ice, that melts away wilh it The the passeth away. The universe is but one great city, full of | beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. | All sects are different, because they come | from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God As | heavenly,

fashion of

work

makes virtuous, so

heavens virtue,

the love of the the love of

us

doth the love of the world make one become |

wordly.

All that is of God enlarges and expands the soul, all that is of ourselves slraitens it, and plants an obstacle in the way of operations upon us.

A man was boasting that he had. Deen mar- | ried for twenly years and had never given |

his wife a cross word. Those who know him say he didn’t dare to.

; Are blacksmiths, who make a living by forging, or carpenters, who doa little counter fitting, any worse than men who sell iron and steel for a living ”

A well-dressed, ablesbodied man astonish-

| ed the people in State street, Boston, on New

Year's Day, by walking up and down with

| a large playscard on his hat bearing the scription, “I want work.

If your neighbor's hens are troublesome And steal across the way,

Don’t let your angry pas-ions ris sut ix a place for them to lay

A young author reading a tragedy perceiv- ed his auditor very often pull off his hat at the end of the line, and asked bim the rea- son. “IT can’t pass an old acyuaintan f replied the eritic,

“without civility | Two Irishmen were ia prison—one for | stealing a cow, the other for stealing a } watch. ‘“ Hullo, Mike, and sure what o'clock lis it?’ said the cowsstealer ‘An’ sure | said the watch-slealer, ‘Ive ne

time-piece handy, but suppose it’s just aboni miking time.”

| A portly gentleman crowded himself into a horsescar next to a young man, who said: i** Perhaps you would not crowd in here sf ou knew I had just bad the smali-pox

«Oh, that’s nothing, | this is the first time I have been out since | had it myself.”

was the reply, * for

The Singalese language stands in the front rank of all spoken tongues—so far as names of places are concerned. In the Veyaloowa district there is a village termed Galliappo- conduracirrhacoomhera Another hamlet close by is styled Keenloollagagollepoodama A few more are, Qusekllapoodamakando Boodoogey kondegamewa

“John,” said a clergyman to his man,

| you should become a teetotaler; you have | been drinking again to-day.” ‘Do you ; ever take a drop yoursel’, meenister?” “ Yes, Johu; but you must look at your circums ; stances and mine.”’ * Very true, sir,”’ says

John; ‘but can you tell me how the streets of Jerusa:em were kept so clean? «a,

| John, I cannot tell you that.” ‘ Weil, sir,

jit was just because everyone kept his ain |

| door clean.”’

‘ Then with bosoms burning with feelings |

of mingled hope and fear, they placed them- selves at the most commanding point, ready to begin their work of deliverance ; and as soon as the pirates began their work of death, as already stated, they began theirs of liberation.

‘As itis now growing late, my dear sir and you already have ali that is of interest in

| my story, 1 must bid you good-night ! ’

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“FAMINE IN INDIA.

Ere the lapse of another year, millions of Bengales will probably starve. Here isa

picture, which will help us to realize their |

sufferings. It was painted about forty years ago. of Madras :—

“The eyes of the authorities at Madras, were, however, only open to the disaster bes

fore them when made conscious of the arrival |

of thousands of starving wretches day by day, to whom there was but the one allernas tive of immediate relief or death. But long prior to this, on the Great Northern Road, hundreas of miles from Madras, there might have been noticed, night and day, a stream of pilgrims, as it were, of the most sad de-

scription, wending their weary way south. |

wards—not paupers, but cultivators,artizans, weavers—with their families and some poor remains of their household goods in covered carts, on builocks, or on their own backs. Delicate and retined women were there, and children whose classic forms and ways it had been a delight to look upon, until with skinny limbs and protuberant trunks, they

tottered along, often to their graves, by the |

roadside, though, in numerous the parents, in uller despair, and rather than see them die before their eyes, sold the female portions to wretches who conveyed them to Hyderabad, the Moslem capital of the Dec- ca

cases,

road, as it approached Madras, pr sented a still sadder sight—its surface strewn with dead bodies laying half unburied, arms and legs protruding above the soil, and the fa- mishing village dogs tossing about the torn remnants of those who had become the prey of the jackals. A hideous sight it was lo see these creatures dragging by their long tresses the heads of those precious ones who had a few days before be2n as centres of hope to their households.

‘ Traversing that road, it was often hard to distinguish between the dying and the dead—between those who had fallen there from exhaustion and might still be recovered, from those who had fallen to rise no more in this life. At Masulipatam, the very capis tal of that part of the countrys, carrier for the dead went their rounds every morning, con- veying their Joads of carcases from the streets to large open pits, left in possession of birds and beasts of prey—the former so gorged as to be unable to take wing at the approach of the living. ‘ But a fate worse than that ofthe dead was often the portion of the livs

ing ; for an order had gone forth to relieve | none at the public expense but those who |

could be put to the coarse and humiliating labor of tank digging. It was a heart- breaking sight to see the tenderly nurtured

daughters of respectable castes and descent | subjected to the authority of gross native |

overseers, against bul scanty protection or redress.

« The routine of village existence day after day, when the heavens continued as_ brass, was fearful in the extreme; by day the

wandering groups trying to pick up grain |

from most defiled sources, and then, as even

ing approached, men, women and children |

descending the large village well,or rather re- servoier, and there passing the livelong night, watching their little water vessels, as drop by drop water trickled into them from the exhausted springs, hoping that they might be able to take safely to their homes in the morning the treasure which now had _ be- come more precious than goid. Deeds of vio~ lence could not be altogether suppressed ; yet, on the whole, it was marvellous with what patience and submission this long period of calamity was endured—such pining want, such personal anguish, cattle dying from thirst in the fields, the little heirlooms of jewels and silver and golden ornaments parted with, the wail of famishing children, and yet no jacquerie, no fanatica! outburst against their rulers, in whose truth they still trusted.”

—-

Mr. Gladstone has determined to no longer a convenient form for reference. It states | proceed- + the total population of the world at the ~~

take an active partin Parlamentary awe the-e is much speculation as to who will suceed him as head of the Opposition. The Observer hopes that Mr. Giadstone’s determination is not

The tamine was then in the Presidency

LOGIC, ‘* He who would thrive must rise at five.”’ So says the proverb, though there is more rhyme than reason in it, for if He who would thrive must rise at five, it must follow naturally, He who'd thrive must rise at four and it will insure a consequence that, He who'd still more thriving be Must leave his bed at turn of three; And who this latter would outdo, Will rouse him at the stroke of two | And by way of climax to it all, it should | be held good that He who d never be outdone, Must ever rise as soon as one But the best illustration would be

| He who'd flourish best of al! Should never goto bed at all Watch for little opportunities af and put little annoyances out of the

ueasing, va\

a

What a new world we should live in if we could only allow every kind thought that comes to us to blossom into words and deeds

An impertinent fellow wants to kuow if you ever sat down to tea where skimmed milk | was on the table without being asked Do | you take cream.

“Don'ta Quaker ever take off his bat to

} any one, mamma?" “No my dear.” “I he don't take off bis hat to a parber, how does he have his hair cut ?’

Our sympathies are freely accorded to a boy in Danbury, Conn , who has sev y in- jured his spine in trying to imitate a gesture which he saw the celebrated Mr. Gough

] Ppals rely

|

Because he’s |

The new Chief Justice is an Episcopalian. |

THE ECONOMY OF HUMAN LIF#.

RELIGION.

There is but one God, the author, the crea- tor, the nor of the world, almighty, eternal, and incomprehensible

The sun is not God, though his noblest image. He enlighteneth the world with his brightness; his warmth giveth life to the pro- tucts of the earth : admire him as the crea- » instrument of God; but worship him

gov"

yreme, most wise, and », belong worship, giving, and praise

iath stretched forth the heavens with ha whu hath describe ’ s of the Who setteth bounds to the ocean, which it

innot pass; and saith unto the stormy winds, Be still

Who shaketh the earth, and the nations tremble; who darteth his lightnings, and the wicked are dismayed.

Who called forth worlds by the word of his ; mouth; who smiteth with his arm, and they | sink into nothing. | ‘QO reverence the majesty of the Omnipos | tent!and tempt net his anger, lest thou be destroyed.

The providenee of God is over all bis works; he ruleth and directeth with infinite wisdom.

stars.

He hath instituted laws for the government of the world ; he hath wonderfully varied them in all bemgs; and each, by his nature, con-~ formeth to-his will.

In the depth of his mind he revolvetb all | knowledge; the secréts of futurity lie open

before him

The thoughts of thy heart are naked to his

view; he knoweth thy determinations before they are made.

With respect to his prescience there is 105 | thing contingent; with respect to his provis | dence there is nothing accidental.

Wonderful is he in all his ways; his coun- | sels are inscrutable; the manner of his know- ledge transcendeth thy conception.

‘ Pay, therefore, to his wisdom all honour |} and veneration; and bow down thyself in

humble and submissive preme direction’

Che Lord is gracious and beneticent; he hath created the world in mercy and love.

His goodness is conspicuous in all {| works; he is the fountain of exellence,

centre of perfection

his

The creatures of his hand declare his good- ness, and al] their enjoyments speak his praise: he clotheth them with supporteth them with food; he preserveth } them with pleasure from generation to geners tion to generation.

If we lift up our eyes to the heavens, his glory shineth forth: if we cast them down up- on the earth, it is full of his goodness; the hills and the vallic. rejoice and sing; fieids, { rivers, and woods, resound his praise.

But thee,O man, he hath distinguished with peculiar favour, and exalted thy station above all creatures.

He hath endowcd thee with reason to main- tain thy dominion; he hath fitted thee with language, to improve by society; and exalted thy mind with the powers of meditation, to comlemplate and adore his inimitable perfec- tions

And in the laws he

vd is hath ordained as the rule of thy life

, 80 kindly hath he suited thy

duty to thy nature, that obedience to his pre- epts is happiness lo thyself ‘QO praise his goodness with songs of

thanksgiving, and meditate in silence on the wouders of his love: let thy heart overflow With gratitude and acknowledgment; Jet the language of thy lips speak praise and adora- tion; let the action thy life shew thy love to his law’.

The Lor| is just and righteous; and judge the earth wilh equily and truth

Hath he established his laws in goodness and mercy, and shall he not punish the transgressors thereof ?

will

O think not, bold man! because the pun- ishmeut is delayed, that the arm of the Lord is weakened; neither flatter thyself with hopes that he winketh at thy doinzs,

ilis eye pierceth every secret of thy heart, and he remembereth them forever: he specteth nat the persons, nor the stations of men

The poor,

re-

high and the wise

the low, the rich and the and the ignorant, when the

soul hath shaken off the cumbrous shackles, |

of this mortal life, shall equally receive from the sentence of God a just and everlasting retribulion according to their works. ; ‘ QO fear the lord, therefore, ail the days of thy life, and walk in the paths which he hath opened before thee; let Prudence admonish thee; let Temperance restrain, let Justice guide thy hand; Benevolence warm thy breast and Gratitude to heaven inspire thee with , devotion. These shall give thee happiness in | thy present state, and bring thee to mansions | of eternal felicity in the Paradise of God. ” This is the trne Economy of Human Lire.

Commercial College. WELSH & QWEN’S BUILDING,

Queen Street. Charlottetown.

EATON, PRAZEE X REAGH, PROPETETORS,

DILSIGNED To

Kieale Young Men for Business

BOOK-KEEPING in all iis branches, both by SINGLE and DOUBLE ENTRY and Col- lateral subjects, thorougly taught and prac- tically applied by means ofa Complete Course of Actual Business, engaved in by all the students. Particular

attention given to BANKING ARITHMETIC, BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE, SPELLING, &c. Our Course of Instruction affords a large amount of

can. -A little later, and that same Northern

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

relating to Business pursuits, which is of the greatest importance to Young Men intend- ing to go into business for themselves.

make.

| Any boy can learn to chew tobacco by | being hopefuland presevering, but unless his j hips are fully developed he cannot wear) ~_ : | pants without suspenders, and have his shirt No Young Man Can Afford to miss a Courso at this | foam jauntily out over the top, as

: Institution,

Business men and others interested are cordially invited to call and examine our system.

Hours—94 a. m. to 12 p. m., from 2 to 4, and 74 to 94 p. m.

Cireulars containing fall particulars will be sent free to auy address, on application to