10. And now, I can assure you. on the word of an honest man, that I am in better health and much happier than I used to be. Formerly I had headache nearly every day, and now I suffer scarcely once in three or four months. Before I attended to these rules, I hardly dared venture out in a rain or snow storm, through fear of catching cold. In former times, a half-hour's walk fatigued and exhausted me; and now I walk many miles without weariness. 11. Imagine, then, the happiness I experience; for there are few feelings so cheering to the spirit as those of constant good health and vigor. But, alas! there is something in which I cannot bear resemblance to these happy old people—and that is in the circumstance of having been accustomed to all these good habits from youth upwards. 12. O! that I were young again, that I might imitate them in all things, that I might be happy and healthy as they were! The young who read this are the fortunate ones who are able to begin early the adoption of such habits. 13. I would not have you suppose that long life is to be desired before the discharge of duty and the cultivation of virtue. There are many things to be esteemed more than long life. After all our precautions and rules, we must remember that we are in the hands of a heavenly Father, who best knows what is for our good, and whose will should be our will. 14. In the highest sense, he lives long who lives well. The good man (and good men not only think good thoughts, but do good deeds) lives more in a day than a selfish, covetous man in a century. The virtuous youth, whose motives are generous, whose kindness is prompt and active, is more truly venerable than the old miser or sensualist with gray locks and tottering gait. 15. But no one will deny that it is our duty, as well as for our advantage, to conform to those laws of our being, obedience to which is, as a general rule, conducive to a long, a healthful, and a happy life. Health of mind, and the ability to do good, depend largely on health of body; so let us imitate the old people of whom I have spoken, that our days may be long in the land. From the German. 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. 82 1. "THE press !EI 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 The deaf may hear, the blind may see," The dumb converse, the dead of old 3. "I am an omnipresent soul; 182 I live and move throughout the whole; .182 4. "All that philosophers have sought, 5. "Ah! who like me can bless or curse ?179 Blessed be the man by whom I bless, ! James Montgomery. That Heaven hath sent me strength and health, 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. The little birds, on new-tried wing, And insects revel in the spring. 4. For love of us, hills, woods and plains, In beauteous hues are clad; 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, |