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working double tides, and crowding the labor of a hundred years into fifty, Mr. Paine discovered at last that, big as were his ancestors' deposits of vigor and vitality to his credit, he had overdrawn his account for years, and must now repay the excess with compound interest; in short, that he was physically bankrupt. Some fifteen years before his decease he began to suffer from a catarrh which, baffling every device to cure it, impaired first his hearing, and next his matchless memory, till, finally, for two years, he was unable to recognize his oldest and most intimate friends.

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Sad close of a brilliant and honorable career! Had he obeyed the laws of health, Mr. Paine might in all probability have practised his profession, like his brother of the bar, Sydney Bartlett, till he was ninety. The lessons which his life teaches are two, first, that the practice of the law, conscientiously and honorably pursued by one in whose character are blended dignity and courtesy, power and gentleness, and especially when accompanied by the love and cultivation of letters, is sure to win riches and honor, public esteem, and troops of friends; the other lesson is, that the young practitioner, though he riots in health and strength, should not overtax his powers or deny himself stated seasons of rest and recreation. Let him remember that, though suffering does not follow

instantly on the heels of transgression, yet Nature cannot be outraged with impunity. Though a generous giver, she is yet a hard bargainer and a most accurate

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book-keeper, whose notice not the tenth part of a cent escapes; and although the items with which she debits him are singly insignificant, and often many long years pass before she presents her bill, yet, added up after half a century, they may show a frightful balance, which can end only in physical and mental bankruptcy.

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WHAT THE PILGRIM FATHERS SANG.

By Charles S. Nutter.

VERYTHING relating to the Pilgrim Fathers is of peculiar interest. peculiar interest. Hymnologists and historians of church music have recorded that among the few books which the Pilgrim Fathers brought with them from Holland to Plymouth were some copies of a psalm book prepared with great labor by Henry Ainsworth, the scholarly and pious Puritan preacher, who had been the teacher of the principal congregation of Separatist exiles at Amsterdam. A small copy of a later edition (1642) of this book, once in the library of the Rev. Thomas Prince, has been preserved in Boston, and is now in the Public Library. This is the edition to which most of our writers have referred; few claim to have seen the original first edition, and they seem to be in doubt as to its exact date. After long and patient search in public and historical libraries, a copy was found in the library of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, Mass. ; but, alas! as is so frequently the case with such old books, the title-page was missing, and the date could not be ascertained. It was recently the good fortune of the writer to find another copy in the hands of a London bookseller. It was complete, and, though coverless, worn, and soiled, had been carefully mended. No wonder that it was dilapidated: it was dated A. D. 1612. It had escaped fire, flood, the rag-bag, and worms, running the gantlet of all its mortal enemies for over two

hundred and eighty years. Although the book was in this shabby condition, and held at a high price, the temptation to purchase it was too great to resist. was the first, and would probably be the

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last, chance to secure this rare and valuable relic. The fact that there was no copy of this early edition in the library of the British Museum, and probably no perfect copy in America, was remembered. At any rate, it was worth more to an American than it could possibly be to an Englishman; and so the copy was bought and, after long delay, followed its fellows to the land of the Pilgrims.

The book is certainly a great curiosity, unlike any other psalm book that the writer has ever seen. It is a small quarto, six and one half by eight and one half inches in size. The title is as follows: "The Book of Psalms: Englished both in Prose and Metre, with Annotations opening the Words and Sentences by Conference with Other Scriptures. By H. A." Following the title-page are two pages of Preface, to which is appended the full name of the author, Henry Ainsworth. The Preface begins in this manner: —

"I have enterprised (Christian reader) this work, with regard of God's honour, & comfort of his people; that his word might dwel in us richly, in al wisdom; and that we might teach and admonish our selves in psalmes & hymnes and songs spiritual. This I have labored to effect, by setting over into our tongue the Psalms in metre, as agreable to the original Hebrue, as are other usual translations. For the better discerning hereof, I turned them also into prose, and set these versions one by another, to be the more easily compared. And because the Psalmes, have hard words and phrases: I have added notes to explayn them with brevitie; which was to me as laborious, as if I had made a larger comentarie."

This book was used generally if not exclusively in the churches of New England for many years, in Salem fifty years, in Plymouth eighty years; though in 1690, after long deliberation and a vote of the church, it was decided to introduce the

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