THE POOR. A DECENT provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, is the true mark of national discrimination. Johnson. "How often one hears an English gentleman (as good as any gentleman, however) mourning over the loss, as he calls it, of a hundred or two a year in farming his estate-so fine a business for an English gentleman! It won't do-it won't payhe must give it up,' &c. Why, what do his fine houses, equipages, gardens, pictures, jewels, dinners, and operas, pay? Oh, but there he has something to show for his money.' And is a population of honest, healthy, happy English labourers—honest, healthy, and happy, because constantly employed by him, with proper wages, and not so much labour exacted of them as to turn a man into a brute-is not this something to show for your money? as good pictures, jewels, equipage, and music, as a man should desire?" Not, however, to be bought wholly by money wages 66 LOVE IS THE TRUE PRICE OF LOVE." CASH payment never was, or could be (except for a few years) the union bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world. Carlyle. On a rock-side in one of Bewick's Vignettes, we see inscribed what should never be erased from any Englishman's heart. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath may make them, as a breath has made; Advice well remembered by Sir Walter Scott's Duke of Buccleugh, "one of those retired and high-spirited men, who will never be known until the world asks what became of the huge oak that grew on the brow of the hill, and sheltered such an extent of ground." THE THREE RACES. MACHIAVELLI divides men into three classes: 1. Those who find truth. 2. Those who follow what is found. 3. Those who do neither. And the same distinction is observed in a pack of fox hounds, only that, in their case, the latter class are soundly beaten, and, if incorrigible, hung. FOUND OUT BY ONE'S SIN. WHEN the sinner shall rise from his grave, there shall meet him an uglier figure than ever he beheld-deformed-hideous -of a filthy smell, and with a horrid voice; so that he shall call aloud, "God save me! what art thou?"-The shape shall answer, "Why wonderest thou at me? I am but THINE OWN WORKS; thou didst ride upon me in the other world, and I will ride upon thee for ever here." Jellaladin. 66 TO-MORROW AND TO-MORROW!" THE procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false. Most of the weak are false. Lavater. "What a quantity, not of time only, but of soul, has been spent in resolving and re-resolving to get up out of bed in a morning." "By and by, is easily said"-and re-said. Do immediately whatever is to be done. When a regiment is under march, the rear is often thrown into confusion because the front do not move steadily and without interruption. It is the same thing with business: if that which is first in hand is not instantly, steadily, and regularly despatched, other things accumulate behind, till affairs begin to press all at once, and no human brain can stand the confusion. Sir W. Scott. THE SOURCE OF THE GREAT RIVER. IT has been the plan of Divine Providence, to ground what is good and true in religion and morals on the basis of our good natural feelings. What we are towards our earthly friends in the instincts and wishes of our infancy, such we are to become at length towards God and man in the extended field of our duties as accountable beings. To honour our parents is the first step towards honouring God; to love our brethren according to the flesh, the first step to considering all men our brethren. Hence our Lord says we must become as little children if we would be saved; we must become in his church as men, what we were once in the small circle of our youthful homes. The love of private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of others. It is obviously impossible to love all men in any strict and true sense. What is meant by loving all men, is to feel well disposed towards all men, to be ready to assist them, and to act towards those who come in our way as if we loved them. We cannot love those about whom we know nothing, except indeed we view them in Christ, as the |