beyond his own family. On the other hand, many a wanderer has been encouraged to return, by observing in those most injured by his follies, a general readiness to reinstate him in their favor, and to shield his reputation from the reproach of others. It is not wise for a mother either to boast of the excellence, or to publish the faults of her children, but rather to ponder them in her heart, to mention them only at the throne of grace, there to confirm what is right, and correct what is wrong.Phil. S. Courier.

SLANDER WITHOUT WORDS.

There may be calumny in an expression of the countenance; in a hint or inuendo; in an altered course of conduct; in not doing what you have been wont to do; staying from a neighbor's house, or withholding some accustomed civility. You may both give pain to the heart of your brother, and awaken strong prejudices against him, by a lofty air, a nod of the head, a turning out of the way, a glance of the eye, a shrug, a smile, or a frown.-Ib.

SELFISHNESS.

God has written upon the flower that sweetens the air-upon the breeze that rocks the flower on its stem-upon the rain-drop that

refreshes the sprig of moss that lits its head in the desert-upon the ocean that rocks every swimmer in its deep chambers-upon every pencilled shell that sleeps in the caverns of the deep, no less than upon the mighty sun which warms and cheers millions of creatures tha live in its light-upon all his works, he has written, "None of us lives to himself." We admire and praise that flower that best answers the end for which it was created, and bestows the most pleasure; and the tree that bears fruits the most rich and abundant. The star that is most useful in the heavens, is the star that we admire the most. Now is it not reasonable, that man, to whom the whole creation, from the flower up to the spangled heavens, all minister-man, who has the power of conferring deeper misery or higher happiness than any other being on earth-man, who can act like God if he will-is it not reasonable that he should live for the noble end of living, not to himself, but for others?—J. C. Neal.

Would to God that the foregoing graphic and truthful sentiments might sink deep into every reader's heart, and produce accordant actions! Selfishness is the great fountain of meanness, violence, and of every crime and sin. It degrades man below the brutes, and makes him a fiend. With it, he is allied to devils; without it, to angels.

"Behold him seated on a mount serene,
Above the fogs of sense, and passion's storm,
All the black cares and tumults of this life,
Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet,
Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Too dear he holds his int'rest to neglect
Another's welfare, or his right invade;
Their int'rest, like a lion, lives on prey.
They kindle at the shadow of a wrong;

Wrong he sustains with temper, looks on heav'n,
Nor stoops to think his injurer his foe :

Nought, but what wounds his virtue, wounds his peace."

Could angels be permitted, with joy would they speed their flight to earth on a mission of mercy to the poor and afflicted; but it is not allowed them; it is your work, reader-will you do it, or will you prove recreant to your high trust, and a traitor to your Maker?

THE DOOM OF OPPRESSORS.

"This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty: if his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread." Jok 27: 13, 14. "He shall break in pieces the oppressor." Ps. 72: 4. "If he hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? He shall not live; he shall surely

die." Ezek. 18: 10. "For he shall have judgment without mercy who hath showed no mercy." James 2: 13.

A SHORT SERMON.

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast."-PROV. 12 10

"He too, is witness, noblest of the train

That wait on man, the flight performing horse:
With unsuspecting readiness he takes

His murd'rer on his back, and push'd all day
With bleeding sides and flanks that heave for lite.
To the far distant goal, arrives, and dies.
So little mercy shows who needs so much!
Does law, so jealous in the cause of man,
Denounce no doom on the delinquent ?-None
He lives, and o'er his brimming beaker boasts,
(As if barbarity were high desert,)

Th' inglorious feat, and clamorous in praise
Of the poor brute, seems wisely to suppose
The honors of his matchless horse his own!
But many a crime, deemed innocent on earth,
Is registered in heav'n, and there, no doubt,
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd-
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,
But God will never.-Cowper's Task.

If a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, it may be well to inquire when a man does not, and when he does regard the life, health, happiness of his beast or horse?

1. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he drives him faster than a walk in going up a hill.

2. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he drives him faster than a walk

in going down hill-it being more difficult for a horse to descend than to ascend a hill.

3. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he leaves him to stand in the cold without a covering upon him.

4. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he drives him eight or ten miles, without stopping to rest.

5. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he leaves him to stand in the cold without fodder, while he is stabled in the bar-room, talking party politics and drinking grog.

6. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he whips him to gratify his passions, or to pass away his time.

7. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he does not let him rest on the first day of the week.

8. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he drives him furiously, to make up for lost time spent in the bar-room.

9. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he engages in a horse-race.

10. A man does not regard the life of his beast, when he sells him to one whom he knows will misuse him.

11. A man does regard the life of his beast, when he does by his beast, in his sphere of action, as he would wish to be done by in his.