6. THE MIND IS ITS OWN PLACE. We all seem rather to inhabit ourselves than dwell anywhere else. The world within is our home and constant abode. Our thoughts are our mansion, our food, our wealth, and inheritance. Everything is viewed through the medium of thought. Here, the present world, the world to come, ourselves, our friends, our foes, and even the Deity, are reflected, surveyed, and contemplated, and hence to have peace within is heaven. When all is tranquil around, the mind may be like the troubled sea; and, on the contrary, the last thunder may roar, the earth quake, and the heavens dissolve and melt with fervent heat, and yet the soul, far from feeling the least alarm, may exult and sing. — Anon.

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7. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE AMERICAN. sickening over the horrors of that dreadful period, — the butchery, I do not say of kings and queens, but of gray-haired men, of women, of priests, the atrocities of the human tigers who preyed on the life-blood of France, and dared to invoke the sacred name of republican liberty as the cover of their abominations, I am fain to turn for relief to the pages of our own revolutionary history; to gather renewed hope for constitutional freedom from the writings of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay; new lessons of true patriotism from the story of Warren, of Putnam, and Prescott; new faith in humanity from the spotless career of Washington.

I make the transition with feelings like those which one experiences when, after wandering for hours through the dark, dripping, narrow passages of a dismal mine, deafened with the clank of enginery and the roar of subterranean waters, oppressed with the grave-like heaviness and chill of the air, choked with sulphurous vapors, and groping your way in continual danger of an explosion which will bury you beneath a mountain mass of ruin, you come up at last to the open, blessed sky, tread beneath you the safe and solid ground, feel in every limb the genial warmth of the sun, listen to the cheerful notes of birds, and breathe an atmosphere loaded with all the fragrance of June. - Everett.

8. DUTY. — A life of duty is the only cheerful life — for all

joy springs from the affections; and it is the great law of nature, that without good deeds all good affection dies, and the heart becomes utterly desolate. The external world, too, then loses all its beauty; poetry fades away from earth; for what is poetry but the reflection of all pure and sweet, all high and lofty thoughts? But where duty is

"Flowers laugh beneath her in their beds,

And fragrance in her footing treads ;

She doth preserve the stars from wrong,

And the most ancient heavens through her are fresh and strong." 9. LITTLE THINGS.

Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams; a helm is a little thing, but it governs the course of a ship; a bridle-bit is a little thing, but see its use and powers; nails and pegs are little things, but they hold the parts of large buildings together; a word, a look, a smile, a frown, are all little things, but powerful for good or evil. Think of this, and mind the little things. Pay that little debt; it is a promise, redeem it - - it is a shilling, hand it over; you know not what important events hang upon it. Keep your word sacredly keep it to children; they will mark it sooner than any one else; and the effects will probably be as lasting as life. Mind the little things. — Anon.

We are so constituted that absolutely necessary to our our feeling of obligation to

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10. VERACITY A MORAL LAW. obedience to the law of veracity is happiness. Were we to lose either tell the truth, or our disposition to receive as truth whatever is told to us, there would at once be an end to all science and all knowledge, beyond that which every man had obtained by his own personal observation and experience. No man could profit by the discoveries of his contemporaries, much less by the discoveries of those men who have gone before him. Language would be useless, and we should be but little removed from the brutes. Every one must be aware, upon the slightest reflection, that a community of entire liars could not exist in a state of society. The effects of such a course of conduct upon the whole show us what is the will of the Creator in the individual case, - Presilent Wayland.

AND the night was dark and calm, there was not a breath of air;

The leaves of the grove were still, as the presence of death was there :— Only a moaning sound came from the distant sea;

It was as if, like life, it had no tranquillity.

A warrior and a child passed through the sacred wood,

Which, like a mystery, around the temple stood.

The warrior's brow was worn with the weight of casque and plume,

And sunburnt was his cheek, and his eye and brow were gloom.

The child was young and fair, but the forehead large and high,
And the dark eyes' flashing light seemed to feel their destiny.
They entered in the temple, and stood before the shrine;

It streamed with the victim's blood, with incense and with wine.

The ground rocked beneath their feet, the thunder shook the dome ;
But the boy stood firm, and swore eternal hate to Rome.
There's a page in history o'er which tears of blood were wept,
And that page was the record how that oath of hate was kept.

MISS LANDON.

CXLVI. ELOQUENCE OF CREATION.

1. THE heavens declare the glory of God;

The firmament showeth forth the work of his hands.
Day uttereth instruction unto day,

And night showeth knowledge unto night.
They have no speech nor language,
And their voice is not heard;

Yet their sound goeth forth to all the earth,
And their words to the ends of the world.

2. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, Which cometh forth, like a bridegroom, from his chamber And rejoiceth, like a strong man, to run his course.

He goeth forth from the extremity of heaven,

And maketh his circuit to the end of it;

And nothing is hid from his heat.

3. The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; The precepts of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple. * An elliptical form of expression for as if. See T 194, page 68.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandments of the Lord are pure, enlightening the eyes; The service of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More precious are they than gold; yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter than honey and the honey-comb.

By them also is thy servant warned,

And in keeping of them there is great reward.

4. Who knoweth his own offences?

O, cleanse thou me from secret faults!

Keep back also thy servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me!

Then shall I be upright,

I shall not be polluted with gross transgression.

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight,

O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer !

PSALM XIX., TRANSLATED BY NOYES.

CXLVII. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

1. Ir is impossible! said some, when Peter the Great determined on a voyage of discovery, and the cold and uninhabited region over which he reigned furnished nothing but some larchtrees to construct vessels. But though the iron, the cordage, the sails, and all that was necessary, except the provisions for victualling them, were to be carried through the immense deserts of Siberia, down rivers of difficult navigation, and along roads almost impassable, the thing was done; for the command of the sovereign and the perseverance of the people surmounted every obstacle.

2. It is impossible! said some, as soon as they heard of a scheme of Oberlin's. To rescue his pa-rish'ioners from a halfsavage state, he determined to open a communication with the high road to Strasbourg, so that the productions of the Ban de la Roche might find a market. Having assembled the people, he proposed that they should blast the rocks, and convey a suf

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ficient quantity of enormous masses to construct a wall for a road, about a mile and a half in length, along the banks of the river Bruche,* and build a bridge across it.

3. The peasants were astonished at his proposition, and pronounced it impracticable; and every one excused himself on the ground of private business. He, however, reasoned with them, and added the offer of his own example. No sooner had he pronounced these words, than, with a pickaxe on his shoulder, he proceeded to the spot; while the astonished peasants, animated by his example, forgot their excuses, and hastened with one consent to fetch their tools to follow him.

4. At length every obstacle was surmounted; walls were erected to support the earth, which appeared ready to give way; mountain torrents, which had hitherto inun'dated the meadows, were diverted into courses, or received into beds sufficient to contain them—and the thing was done. The bridge still bears the name of the "Bridge of Charity."

5. It is impossible! said some, as they looked at the impenetrable forests which covered the rugged flanks and deep gorges of Mount Pila'tus, in Switzerland, and hearkened to the daring plan of a man named Rapp, to convey the pines from the top of the mountain to the Lake of Lucerne, a distance of nearly nine miles.

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6. Without being discouraged by their exclamations, he formed a slide or trough of twenty-four thousand pine-trees, six feet broad, and from three to six feet deep; and this slide, which was completed in 1812, and called the slide of Alpnach,† was kept moist. Its length was forty-four thousand English feet.

7. It had to be conducted over rocks, or along their sides, or under ground, or over deep places where it was sustained by scaffoldings; and yet skill and perseverance overcame every obstacle — and the thing was done. The trees rolled down from the mountain into the lake with wonderful rapidity.

8. The larger pines, which were about a hundred feet long,

Pronounced Broosh.

+ Pronounced Alp'nǎk.