1. HE that cannot live well to-day, 189 will be less prepared to live well to-morrow.187 2. In the season of youth the heart should rise to the love of what is great, and fair, and excellent, and melt at the view of goodness. 3. Faith is an entire dependence upon the truth, the power, the justice and the mercy, of God; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey him in all things.181 4. Where can an object be found, so proper to kindle the best affections, as the Father of the Universe and the Author of all good? 179 5. Submit to the guidance of those who are wiser than yourselves, and become wise by the wisdom of those who have gone before you. 6. Truth is the basis of every virtue; falsehood sinks you into contempt with God and man. The path of truth is a plain and safe path. 7. Engrave on your mind that sacred rule "of doing unto others as you would wish that they should do to you.” 8. Go sometimes to the house of mourning, as well as to the house of feasting: graceful in youth is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. 9. On whom does time hang so heavily as lazy? To whom are the hours so weary? devoured with spleen, and obliged to fly to ΕΙ can help them to get rid of themselves? on the slōthful and Who are so often every means that 10. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. 11. Decision and obstinacy often resemble each other, though one is the child of wisdom, the other of error; a decided man thinks deeply, an obstinate one seldom thinks at all. 12. Perfect valor consists in doing, without witnesses, all we hould be capable of doing before the whole world. *Remember that this word is pronounced ar, as if it rhymed with far. 13. Were we as eloquent as angels, yet should we please some men, some women, and some children, much more by listening than by talking. 14. There is no music like that of the human voice. Elocution is to speech what coloring is to painting, the thing that conveys vitality to the representation. 15. What a variety of objects is set before man to gratify his senses, to employ his thoughts, to engage his fancy, and to cheer and gladden his heart! 16. Think sometimes of the sorrows of human life, of the wretched poor, of the unwarmed, unfurnished apartment, of the dying parent, of the weeping orphan. 17. Let him who would do good reflect that, while he forms his purpose, the day rolls on, and "the night cometh, when no man can work." 18. If we delay till to-morrow what ought to be done today, we charge the morrow with a burden that belongs not to it. 19. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. 20. There is no vice that doth so much cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. All that a man gets by lying is, that he is not believed when he speaks the truth. 21. The man of true fortitude" is like a castle built on a rock, which defies the attacks of surrounding waters; the man of a timorous spirit is like a hut placed on the shore, which every wind shakes and every wave overflows. IV. 1. "THE press !EI THE PRESS. What is the press?" I cried; When thus a wondrous voice replied: Past, present, future, I reveal, Or in oblivion's silence seal; What I preserve can perish never, 2. "I speak all dialects; by me ΕΙ 182 The deaf may hear, the blind may see,18 The dumb converse, the dead of old 3. "I am an omnipresent soul; I live and move throughout the whole; 4. "All that philosophers have sought, 5. "Ah! who like me can bless or curse ?179 Blessed be the man by whom I bless, And shame on him who wrongs the press!" James Montgomery. 1 WHY need I strive and sigh for wealth? That Heaven hath sent me strength and health, Grateful these blessings to receive, I sing my hymn at morn and eve. 2. On some, what floods of riches flow! The more they have, they seek increase: 3. A vale of gloom this world they call; Much happiness it has for all, And none are grudged a share. 4. For love of us, hills, woods and plains, And birds sing far and near sweet strains, Caught up by echoes glad. "Rise," sings the lark, "your tasks to ply!" The nightingale sings “lullaby.” 5. And when the obedient sun goes forth, When bloom o'erspreads the glowing earth, I think these glories that I see 6. Then loud I thank the Lord above, His love, it is a Father's love, He wills to all men good. Johann Miller. VI. PRESENCE OF MIND. ΕΙ 1. WHEN Sir Astley Cooper, a celebrated English surgeon, was a boy at school, and not yet thirteen years old, he gave a memorable proof of his calm courage in dealing with that human frame, which afterwards formed the chief subject of his laborious study. A son of his foster-mother, a lad rather older than himself, while driving a cart loaded with coals for the vicar, fell in front of the wheel, which passed over his thigh before he could regain his footing, and, besides other injuries, caused a laceration of the principal aptery, ΕΙ 82 2. The unfortunate boy was borne home utterly exhausted, and sinking from loss of blood, which flowed so copiously that surgical aid not being at hand, the assembled villagers, finding their efforts to stop it utterly futile, were in terror of his bleeding to death; when Astley, having heard of the accident, hurried to the place. 3. Undeterred by the feeling of sickness which the sight of so ghastly a wound naturally produces, and undismayed by the affright of the trembling spectators, he, with consum'mate presence of mind and a firm hand, instinctively did exactly what should have been done, encircled the limb with his handkerchief above the wound, and bound it so tightly that the bleeding was effectually stayed till the arrival of the surgeon, with whose aid the boy was saved. 4. The faculty which he here displayed, and which is known by the name of "presence of mind," is one which we should all cultivate, both with a view to our own good and that of others. If Astley, instead of bracing himself to a manly effort, had given way to the agitation and alarm which had rendered the grown |