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THE BEGINNING AJTD THE END.
The private history of many families
teaches astern lesson of the importance of
early and wholesome restraint. Respecta
ble parents have been broken hearted by
tbe vices of shameless sons and daughters.
Children of fine gifts and fair promise have
come to a wretched end, because they com
menced fife with wrong principles and ba
- uite-.- The following story from the New
York Observer contains admonition for
youth, and no less for parents and guar-,
dian;: - ’
* x\bout thirty-five ye;Vrs ago, I was a
teacher in one of tbe large villages in Hie
West. While thus two boys,
whom I shall call. Nathan and John, came
to schc>©l from the same neighborhood;
They"were then about a dozen years old,
and there was not much difference in their
capacity for improvement. B ‘th were fair
scholars, and generally behaved with a
go6d degree of propriety in school, and
both-might have been respectable and use
ful-members of society.’ Nor did I think
• that when they should become men, there
won Id be much difference .in .they; stands
ing and usefulness. A/ter fhey had been
in school a year or more I removed to an
other part of the village, where it was not
convenient for them to attend upon my in
struction. Now let us, for* the present,
pass over the history of these boys, twenty
years from the time they leit my school,
and see where we shall tiind them.
Well within five days of the same time,
Nathan was ordained a minister of the
gospel, over a large church, and John was
hanged. Ncfdoubt yon would like to learn
tbe causes that led to such widely differ
ent Jesuits in their,history. Nathan was
obedient to his mother, (she was a widow,)
was regularly found in the Sabbath school
and tbe sanctuary on the Sabbath, nor did
he absent himself fromfhomo at night with
out her permission, and was at home at an
early hour. John broke away from paren :
tol restraint, was seldom seen in the sanc
tuary or the Sabbath school, but roamed
abroad in the fields and orchards, orwhere
ever inclination or wicked associates led
him. Tie of course fell into bad company, j
I said of course, for good boys are not or
__dir?arily found abroad’on the. Sah ball), nor
at unseasonable hours at night. Ho learn
ed to play at cards when he should have
been at church, or in the Sabbath school,
it* not at home with his parents, and in few
years became a gambler and a “black leg.”
He failed however to get money as fast as
he wanted it. bv gambling. So he, with
two other meu of like character, killed a
man to obtain his money. The murder
was committed in a dark tiigbt, and no eye
but God’s saw them, and they no doubt
thought that they should escape punish
ment. But a very remarkable train of
events soon led to their detection. They
were tried, fcyind gntlty, and all three were
executed together.
And now, my young friends, allow me
to say to you, that John, when he was in
the same school with Nathan, had no idea
but when he should become a man, he
would be as respectable and happy as his
associate. And so he might have been,
had he avoided the company of had boys,
and properly observed the Sab oath. And
when he began to play at cards, ho was
not aware to what extent his course was
tending, and"only played ’for’smtill sums
at first. But the first step in flic wrong
course once taken, there is no stopping
place; and the only safe Way is to avoid
the society of bad boys, and not take the
first step in a course of sin, aDd constantly
keep in mfnd, that*however you may suc
ceed in biding your actions from men,
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“o™o angd'U is&etf. e -<• n n> this-'wi.wF
IN UNION THEBE IS STRENGTH-
It has been sneeringly said “that the }
Baptist form of church government .is fit
only for hedven; that it is too simple and
easy for earth.’F We hail the intended
reproach as a high compliment. The
church of Christ is composed of candidates
for heaven, of the professed “sons and
daughters of God Almighty,” who ought
to he “a law unto themselves.” and there
thre'to nmtrj-f&w Os no external laws. We
glory therefore in the independence of our
Baptist churches. They “cull no man
master,” and are responsible to the great
Head of the church alone. They only need
ed to make their form of government per
fect is true piety in eacli individual
member. Where this exists, “love is the
fulfilling of the law.” Each is animated
by a sincere desire to ‘promote the spiritu
ality, peace and happiness of his fellow
members, the prosperity of the church
with wkich he is connected, of every sister
chijrcb, and’of the cause of Christ through
out the world. Where this does not exist
self is the idol before which everything
else prostrated. His own plans must be
adopted at all hazards; his own church
must prosper, letothei-s suffer as they may;
his own happiness must be consulted, let
the cause of God languish and decline.
We wi.l not deny that tl*ere are dangers
connected With the individualism and in
dependency which are the peculiar glory
of the Baptists. They may he carried too
far, and result in destroying that unity of
feeling and effort which is indispensable
to success. The only safeguard against
the se dangers is to be found in broad
Christian views of duty, and hearts filled
with devotion to one com on Master. It
is well for each church to stand alone as to
ecclesiastical control. It is well to repu
diate the dominion of any “Lords over
God’s heritage,” whether called Bishops,
Synods, Conferences, Assemblies or Popes.
But it is not well for each church to stand
aloof from its si9ter churches perhaps
struggling with formidable difficulties and
unable without friendly sympathy and aid
to withstand the current. It is not well
for the different churches each to pursue*
alone its own plan, of esteadjpg Christ’s,
kingdom, without co-operating with otn- •
era.
There {tre many objects which cannot
be so successfully gained except by such
co operation. They extend ever so wide a
field, orrequire such a large expenditure,
and so many laborers to carry on the work
that no one chnrch can possibly prosecute
them with efficiency. This has been gen
erally acknowledged with reference to For
eign ond Domestic Missions, the circula
tion of the Bible and Religious publica
tions, and one or two other objects. But
there are other objects of great importance
in which the adage “in Union is strength”
will be found equally true. The disposi
tion to independent action has given rise
to the multiplication of many more agen
cies for doing the same work than are ueo- j
ded. Thus each State or section of a State j
must have its own college—however poor- j
ly supported, with few students, an almost ‘
starving faculty, and kept alive only by [
perpetual begging, when by uniting with ;
other States, a noble Institution of the I
very highest class might be secured, with j
no greater expenditure. Each State also
mnst have its own religious paper, though
it can barely exist, in a very feeble condi
tion, and with a meagre subscription list,
when by combining with others, its income
would be large enough to make it a power
ful and influential journal. We are glad
to see that Southern Baptists are beginning
to feel the folly of this course, and that
there is every probability of establishing
ere long, a Theological Institution for the
whole Sonth, not for petty contracted por- I
tion of it. Such a school will be worth !
twenty of the little starveling affairs which {
otherwise would spring up in different
States, monopolizing much of the best tal
ent iu the land as Professors, and furnish
ing the churches perhaps *fhe student a ;
year for each Professor.
The Methodist denomination, though by
no means a model in many respects, yet
in the disposition to concentrate their en
ergies, to sacrifice local preferences to the
common good, and to unite as one man in
promoting the success of the common
cause, set 119 a bright example. When a
protracted meeting is in progress in one
station, ministers and members from the
other stations flock in great numbers in
order to encourage the good work. Is a
new church to be built, ora Sunday school
or Literary Institution established ? They
rally round it, and uphold it until it can
stand alone. They do not waste their
strength and money in supporting a mul
titude of little State papers with from 500
to 5000 subscribers each, but have a few
great denominational organs, with from
10,000 to 30,000 subscribers apiece. Let
us learn wisdom from their success. The
Maryland Baptists need a greater infusion
of this spirit of union among themselves.
A large number of Tract, Bible, Mission,
and Sundy School Union Societies have
been formed by us, have drawn a few sick
ly breaths and have died. Almost the on
ly thing of the kind which has lived is the
Maryland Baptist Union Association.
That is now about to complete its majori
ty, having reached its 21st year. Let it
‘cnileld, Georgia Tharsdiii^,tfty(eiite- T .,4
•■'•“.v m.n- ertetgf i- v - *•
;.rttve than during its infancy amT'yoatn'.
iu -idc.- these we have the ETducaf
sty and the Church Extension S'>cieiy,-
!><‘th t uilVriug aadly from a ;
v,-arm-hearted earnesUiM i which their
importantWe but speak tbe ;
deep conviction which s we wU-: “
say, that in our judgmeutStffiiritore pr..--
perity of the Baptist tnd > i
bound up, under God, in ‘ S t
ties. Tite one is to i
tion of-new, am If minßHawih u rob • >•,
other to ft*rnish the iqaa■ j
•.*.U arches, and :he ever widening.'fields all
around us. If we of this"getifeHflition per
mit them to die, and if the cause of Ohrift
committed to us shall consequent be hln
dred (as it inevitably will be) in its pro
gress, God will hold us accountable Who
will by aiding to crush these societies, ex
pose himself to the curse pronounced on
Meroz? “Curse ye Meroz, curse ye her
bitter!}-, snith the Lord, because she came
not. up to the hedp of the Lord, to the help
of the Lord against the mighty.”
THE SNOW OF AGE.
No snow falls lighter than the snow of
Hire; but none is heavier, for it never melts.
The figure is by no means novel, hut the
closing part of the sentence is new as well
as emphatic. The Scripture represents
age by the almond tree, which beats blos
soms of the purest white. “The felmond
tret: shall flourish”—the heads shall be
hoary Dickens says of one of his qharac
ters, wicise h-ir was turning gray, that it
looked as if time had lightly pushed his j
snows upon it in passing.
“It never, melts”—no never. Age if s in
exorable; its wheels must move onward ;
they know not any retrograde movement.
The old man may sit ana ifng, “I would I
were a boy again,” but he grows older as
he sings. He may read of the elixir of
youth, but he cannot find it; he may sigh
for the secret of alchemy which is able to
make him young again, but sighing brings
it not. He may gaze backward with an
eye of longing npon the rosy cheeks of ear
ly years, but as one who gazes on his home
from the deck of a departing Bhip, every
moment carrying him further away. Poor
old man! he has little more to do than die.
■ never melts.” , The snow of winter
comes and jdiens its white blossoms upon
the valley and mountain, but Boon the
sweet spring follows and smiles it all away.
Not po with that upon the brow of the tot
tering veteran; there is no spring” whose
warmth can penetrate its eternal frost. It
came to stay; its single flakes fell unno
ticed, and now it is drilled there. “We
shall see it increase until we lay the old
man in his grave; there it shall be absorb
ed by the eternal darkness, for'there is no
age in heaven ” Yet why speak of age in
a mournful strain? It ia beautiful, honor
able and eloquent. Shonld we sign at the
proximity of death, when life and tbe
world ar.e so full ofemptiness? Let the old
exult because they are old; if any roust
weep, let it be the young, at the long suc
cession of cares that are before them. Wel
come the snow, for it ia the emblem of
peace and rest. It is but a temporal crown,
which shall at the gate of Paradise, to be
replaced by a brighter and better one.
“HOW COULD I HATE WRONGED YOU SOU
In “semihary for young ladies,” an
unusual interest in religion had been a
wakened. A twilight prayer meeting was
held by the young ladies and a few from
among the hitherto thoughtless had been
induced to attend.
“What do you think ?” said Sarah D-^
to an intimate friend; “I hear that Mary
F has experienced religion, as they
call it. Such a lively, pretty girl, and so
fond of pleasure; it is too absurd! They
tell tne she is going to the meeting to
night; who knows hut lohat she may pray?
I have a mind to go myself, just to see
what slie will do.”
The appointed hour arrived. About
t wenty young ladies quietly assembled in
a retired pleasant room. A few who bad
manifested no personal interest bftd ‘beeu
invited, and were present.
The entrance of Sarah D excited
much surprise. With her wonted confi
dence she crossed the room, and seated
herself beside Mary F , whose report
ed conversion had led her there.
Hymns were sweetly sung, .and prayers
offered, humble but fervent, and not un
frequently accompanied by tears.
It was a blessed sight—that yonthful
band giving expression to their new-found
joy in thankful prayer and praise, making
supplication with one accord to their com-
I mun Saviour for themselves, and for all.
| Surely angels gaze with rapturous delight
on such a scene, and strike auew their
harps, crying, “Worthy the Lamb that
was slain !”
Could Sarah remain unmoved amid such
soul-stirring influences?
Mary F sat tremblingly beside hfcr;
she longed to unite her voice Jgßi those
rejoicing sisters, but how could;,fthe find
courage to pray in the presencepf .Sarah !
The tempter strived to still
heart by assurances that duty did a re
quire it; but love for Jesus oveffea:*:,- his
persuasions.
She knelt and had just faintly called the
name of “Father,” when a burst of laugh
ter came from Sarah’s lips. Oh, bow ir
’ reverent aud cruel it seemed to that wor-
THE TRUTH lITioVE
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siren a >1 *° r m ‘ r ’ had
Ti-tl ‘ evidence-•>! titter reekh-ssness.
voii-c !)<-
’ U, f ‘* 1 1 * ? -® < *' ; ®acn%stly she besought
,3,‘f ffr es o nt ’ expressing hc-r
i for iiis mercy
j ‘itVi-p t and childlike simplic
| affected to tears.
} Jj4' 1 tJa ‘ ! ' M and
f , that v v
I. p ladies met
f get 1 erturi ulg iit FeJ: iy; -Jm t iftraTi s ,-mM
edspeakiflg with any sc!iol-u- as far as pos
sible, even the friend with whom she had
conversed respecting the meeting. To the
majority|of the school her .conduct wrs un
accountable, for she had ever been fore
most in their pleasure gatherings—the
gayest of, the gay. Day after day passed
and the ejange in het became, more and
more manifest.
.f her ro.^in:
Mary was unused to such scenes, but
endeavored to soothe the weeping girl with
Sarah wps humbled, and a fnll cirofes-
of her wrong, and for par^
a return of her'wonted gayety and liglit
ness of heart, bnt in vain. ‘‘Your forgiv
ness is all I need, I shall be happy now,”
she said, a she rose to go; but Mary de
tained her. “No, Sarah; mine is readily
granted, and that of our heavenly Father
will be even more willingly; but it must be
sought.”
She hesitated. “I do feel my need of
it, Mary; will you pray for me ?” They
knelt together—nnder what different cir
cumstances from tbe week previous!
“Dli, how could I have wronged you so,
Go&# n Sarah -repSed.- ■
to Mary's “good night,” and “God. Ideas
you.” • •
There was earnestness and power in
Mary’s prayers that night; and we trust,
sincere penitence in Sarah’s soul.
The next evening found them again side
by side at the prayer meeting. Together
they walked, conversed, and prayed—
heeding not the jests of their former asso
ciates, who knew not the delight of that
Christian friendship which drew these
two girls into a nearer intimacy each day.
On the evening preceding the close of
the term, between sixty and seventy pn
pils/(Bsemhjed for their last meeting, all
hopeful Christians. If the first praying
circle was blessed to behold, what was
thiei? One and another cheerfully and
unhesitatingly offered prayer in turn, and
none with more grateful joy than Sarah.
The following day were many tear
ful farewells spoken, and many heartfelt
thanks expressed, for strong indeed had be
come the tie wfdch bound their hearts in
Christian lovfp and they parted, never
more to see all that loved band together
on earth, hut with the joyous hope of a
meeting without separation in heaven.
THE WAY TO HEAVEN.
Sai l a dying “I don’t know
the way.” It wap not, however, the lan
guage of unbelief, A dark cloud had cast
its shadow over her mind, and the clear
light was for a moment obscured. But the
sun still shone as clearly as ever; and when
the shadow had passed away, the sky was
cloudless and serene, and in her bosom
The Saviour epo ke to her, and his words j
were, “I am tbe way, the truth and the
tor her portion, and though now but in the
[youth of womanhood, yet, by trial ami suf
fering, her faith has been strengthened by
renewed evidence that He whom she trus
ted would never forsake her. The voice
of the of the Good Shepherd was heard;
she knew it, for she was one of His sheep,
and He called his own by name. Now her
eyes are closed in death. Her body rests
in the tomb, and her spirit, washed, puri
fied by blood of Christ,
way—the only way. By him we have ac
cess to the mercy-seat. By him we are
presented to the Father. By him, as the
advocate, our cause is pleaded before the
court of heaven. By him, as our surety,
we are delivered from the condemnation
of the law. By him, as our High-priest
I and sacrifice, atonement is made for sin.
{ And % Him, as onr Redeemer, wo are
made to sit in heavenly places, and obtain
1 To know Jesus, is to know the way.
Though the night be dark, if He but be our
[ guide, we cannot stay. Ever faithful and
kind, he will supply all our need. Let us,
-then, ever cling to him. The voyager up
on the trackless sea may be ignorant of his
position, and of the coufso which he is
pursuing, but he fears not. His confidence
!!1 , naT i& ator is his hope, and it suffi
ceth. Ihus in the voyage of life, let faith
ip the Saviour ever keep us calm; and as
tne shores .recede from view, and we find
ourselves in the open sea, let us be “fol
lowers of them who through ..faitbrand pa
tience, inheriFthe promises, “overlooking
to J;Bus, the author and finisher of our
faith.
Not to know Jesus, is to be- ignorant of
he-way of salvation; for there is no otha-r
” atD ,w& iv f n thereby —wa
know the way.” They ever seek it, but
never find if, for they seek it not by|faith.
They follow what they call ‘light of rea
son,’ while they discard the true light.”
When such are brought to the gates of
death, they know not the way, not on ac
count of the weakness of mental vision,
but through the darkness of the natural
mind, which nnderstandeth not things of
the Spirit of God. They grope their way,
but they are led from God, and far away
from heaven. They arc in the broad road
that leadetn todesti:qptipiy.jiG vt; ‘
The Saviour calls,‘ “Lam'the way.” Let
us heed his voice, and choose that good
part which shall never he taken from us.
ONE’S MOTHER.
Around the idea of one’s mother the
’ miud clings with fond affection. It is the
first dear thought stamped upon onr infant
hearts when soft and capable of receiving
most profound impressions, and all the al
ter feelings are more or less light in com
parison. Our and our wilfullness
may lead us from the object of our filial
love; we may become wild, headstrong
and angry at her counsels or oppositidh ;‘
but when death has stilled her monitory
voice, and nothing but calm memory re
mains to recapitulate her good deeds, af
fection, like a flower beaten to the ground
by a rude storm, raises up her head and
smiles amidst her tears. Around that idea,
as we have said, tbe mind clings with fond
affection ; and even when the earlier peri
od of our loss forces memory to be silent,
fancy takes the place of remembrance, and
twines tbe image of our departed parent
with a garland of graces, and beauties, and
virtues which we doubt not she possessed.
-. *&<*!&£*
As two men were conversing one day,
one of them Holding a little boy by the,
hand, their conversation turned upon the
divine inspiration of the Scriptiwes.
“What a wondertul Book is tug Brble,”
said Robert.
“Yes, it is,” replied Charles; “I have
always thought it so, nntil very lately.—
But I have been talking with Tom . Jones,
and he has somewhat shook my faith in it.”
“How so?” inquired Robert.
•*Whj T , vou know Tom is a reading man,
and he telfs me be has been reading for
years to satisfy his,mind whether J3Ly, (
ble is from God, blit he finds some ‘'objec-'’
tions he cannot get over.”
“What objections ?” asked Robert.
“Why, Tom told me that there were sev
eral, but the principal objection he men
tioned, was Gain's wife ; that was a point
he said, he could not gel over.”
“How is Gain’s wife an objection !” in
quired Robert.
“Why, because the history implies a
contradiction ; and if the Bible contradicts
itself, it cannot be of God.” -
“What is the contradiction ?”
“Why, if as the Bible states, Adam and
Eve were the first man and woman, where
did Cain get bis wife from, unless there
was some other family besides his own?—
There is no mention of Adam’s having
daughters at this period ; and if he had
any, the Bible forbids brothers and sisters
to marry, so that such a marriage would
have been criminal. You see, as neighbor
Jones says, this fact places the friends of
a divine revelation upon the horns of a di
lemma. If we refuse the one, we are held
fast by the other.”
“I do not pretend to be a learned man,
like neighbor Jones,” replied Robert. “I
suppose there are difficulties which I can
not explain ; bnt no doubt there are men
in the Christian Chnrch who can explain
them.”
So the con rersation ended; the neigh
bors wished each other good-night, and re
paired to their homes. But their conver
sation had made a deep impression upon
the mind of the little boy. He had been
taught to read the Bible as the Book of
God, and was astonished to hear it thus
questioned. For years this conversation
was in his memory ; he never forgot it, al
though he never ventured to speak of it to
others. “Suppose then,” said he to him
self, “the Bible is false; why should I obey
it? Why not live as other people do? —
Why shonld I be tied by its precepts, if the
truth of the Bible cannot be proved ?”
At length when grown to manhood ha
was delivered from the “horns of Thomas
Jones’ dilemma” by arriving at the follow
ing solution of the difficulty, which is our
answer to this objection.
1. At that period of the world, Jehovah
had not given the tables of affinity as a law
to the human race. Therefore, though
did marry his sister, he violated no law in
this particular; and such a marriage was
according to the Divine will, and carried
out the Divine command, Gen. 1: 28. 2.
The abruptness or brevity of the Scripture
narrative. The sacred in the
4th Chapter of the Book of Genesis, car-
j. T. BhAIN, Printer.
riea us over a period of 367 years. Alfcho’
at the time of ‘Cain’s marriage many hun
dreds did, or might exist. Bishop Patrick
states that iu 80,ye*8,367 children sprang
from fwo persons in EnaJand, and similar
instaaiies might be found in this country.
Adam wa* 130 year# old when Seth waa
born, Gen. 5 : 8, *nd probably not faj; from
that age at tha hia ton Cain’s wed
jdi.Pg- Where then is the difficulty? Ao
• OOnling to the common course of things
historian speako -Cain’s wife. -Trnere
then is the objection ?
As the question is round in some other
places at the present time, and some oth
ers, bigger than the little boy are some
what entangled upon “tbe horns of Tom
Jones’ dilemma,” we have penned this for
the especial benefit of any who may be
troubled in the same way by the doubters.
POPULARITY AND MERIT-
Dicken’s and Irving’s works eeU* kut-tfce
cihastfulAted ’ribvfel, nhillumittftfed bya ‘
single ray of genius, sells a thousand times
better. This is “the fifty thousanth,” sayß
the exulting bookseller. And this becomes
fame to you, the ephemeral novelist. You
are a lion to-day, on account of your book;
next day I am a lion because I safely scull
ed across the river in a wooden dipper—
and yon are forgotten ! It is just ninety
years since Goldsmith’s “Traveller” ap
peared in a London newspaper. “The Vi
car of Wakefield” was sola, through Dr.
Johnson’s mediation, for £6O ; and in ten
years after the author died. With what
iove do we hangover his,pages! His books
are influences and friends forever; yet the
five thousanth copy was never announced,
and Oliver Goldsmith, M. P., often want
ed a dinner! Horace. Walpole, the cox
comb of literature, smiled at him contemp
tuously from his gilded carriage. Gold
smith struggled cheerfully with his adverse
fate, and died. But then iad mourners,
whom ho had aided in their af&iction, gath
ered around his bed ; and a lady of distinc
tion, whom he had only dartd to admire
at a distance, came and cut * ]l L a
hair for remembrance. fTherTl sea thaf®
Goldsmith, thns carrying his heart in his
&8 ftInICCeWnTT WiTuTjI FU!ty could
not bring down from the level of his lofty
nature. -s*
• LET ME PRAY FIRBT.
Avery intelligent little girl was passing
quietly through the streets of a certain town
a short time since, when she came to a spot
where several idle boys were amusing them
selves by the vbry dangerous practice of
throwing stones. Not observing her, oqe
of the boys, by accident, threw a stone to
wards her, and struck her a cruel blow in
the eye.
w%s s oayried ko<!io*itegceat agony,—
Tne slftgeori Was Sent for, and a very'pain
ful operation was declared necessary.—
When tbe time came, and the surgeon had
taken out his instruments, she lay in her
father’s arms, and he asked her if she was
ready.
“No, father; not yet,” she replied.
“What do you wish ua to wait for, my
child?”
“I want to kneel in your lap, and pray to
Jesus first,” she answered. And then kneel
ing, she prayed a few minutes, and after
wards submitted to the operation with the
patience of a woman.
How beautiful this little girl appears, un
der these trying circumstances ! Surely
Jesus heard the prayer made in that hour;
and he will love every child that calls upon
his name. Let every boy and girl learn to
pray; and let idle boys be careful how they
throw stones.
Sleep the great Leveller. —Sleep plays
the petrifying magician. He arrests the
proudest lord as well as the humblest clown
in the most ludicrous postures; so that if
you could draw a grandee from his bed
without waking him, no limb-twisting
fool in a pautomime should create wider
! laughter. The toy with a string between
| its legs is hardly a posture-master more ex
travagant. Imagine a despot lifted up to
tha gaze of his valets, with his eyes shut,
his mouth open, his left hand nnder his
right ear, his other twisted and hanging
helplessly before him like an idiot’s, one
knee lifted up, and the other leg stretched
out, or botii knees huddled up together;
what a scarecrow to lodge majestic power
in! Few sleepers, in effect, show to ad
vantage after they have come to years, of
discretion; it is only infancy and early
childhood that will bear examination, as
artistic studies of grace, when the senses
ore steeped in forgetfulness.— Betley's
Miscellany.
Orderly People. —There are persons who
are never easy unless \hey are potting
your books and papers in order—that is
according to their notions of the matter—
and hide things, lest they should be lost,
where neither the owner nor anybody else
• csitt jihd thejm'’ This is a sort of magpies
Fatuity. If anything’ where you
want it* it is called a litter- There is a pe
dantry in housewifery as well as in the
gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker com
plained that whenever his maid-servaut
had been in his library, he could not sit
comfortable to work again for several days.
—vfi oditt.
Jkub&r.ia.