the ferrule, and the scourge, as the only safe and reliable means of preserving "good order" in a school-room, although the voice of public indig. nation is banishing it from our State prisons, and the backs of convicted felons, may notice the fact that good order does exist to an extent that may challenge comparison with any schoolroom in Boston, in the Smith School, where there has not been a single blow struck since the present master took possession of the school-room! Mark this, all ye who scout at the idea of governing by moral influences, and by moral suasion! Here in the Smith School-acknowledged on all hands to be the worst possible field for the experiment of governing children by kindness rather than by the "authority, force, fear" of the "thirty-one"-here, among a class of children, to whom some of you profess to believe heaven has denied the same mental and intellectual advantages that he has given to a whiter skin;-here, certainly, among children, the poverty and often viciousness of the parents of a portion of whom, neglect and bad treatment at home, bad associates, and the injustice of society to a large proportion, have been the worst possible preparatives for such a trial;-here, too, where a little more than a year ago, the employment of the bastinado, and the most ingenious devices of cruelty, if not justified, were at least palliated by Mr. Frederick Emerson, your great apostle, and the continuance of the

late master in office recommended, because milder government would be out of place among such children ;-here, in this most unfavorable of all the fields that could be selected for such an experiment, the trial has been made, and thus far with a success that is surprising only to those who have been so unfortunate as to have no faith in the superior advantages of moral influences over the degrading appliances of corporeal punishments and physical pain. Let all those who still adhere to the belief that if you abolish or hang up the rod, chaos will come again, contrast the present state of good order in the Smith School, where the "persuasive" only is in force, with that in the Eliot, where the report of their committee informs us the "impulsive" abounds, and my word for it, the state and prospects of the latter-not their skins perhaps will be found to be darker than those of the former."

We hope this example may do much to aid the efforts now making in Massachusetts and elsewhere to abolish the brutal practice of flogging in schools. That the tendency of the practice is to degrade both teacher and scholar, can hardly be doubted by any one who will candidly reflect upon the subject, while its utter want of adaptation to produce genuine obedience is a sufficient reason why it should be discarded now and forever.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Washington was remarkable for the uniform and strict subjection of his passion and appetites, and self-will. He was rarely seen in illhumor, uniformly courteous to all around him, especially to his inferiors, calm and uniform amid the greatest perplexities, to which, in his public duties, he was constantly subjected.Temperance Offering.

A SMILE.

Who can tell the value of a smile? It costs the giver nothing, but is beyond price to the erring and relenting, the sad and cheerless, the lost and forsaken. It disarms malice-subdues temper turns hatred to love-revenge to kindness, and paves the darkest paths with gems of sun-light. A smile on the brow betrays a kind heart, a pleasant friend, an affectionate brother, a dutiful son, and a happy husband. It adds charm to beauty, decorates the face of the deformed, and makes lovely woman resemble the angel of Paradise. Who will refuse to smile?Temperance Offering.

IDLE WORDS.

Bishop Burgess, in speaking of his intimate friendship with Archbishop Leighton,-an inti

macy that existed unbroken for more than twenty-two years-says, "I never, during that period, heard him utter an idle word, nor one that did not tend directly to edification, nor did I ever see him in any other temper of mind than such as I should desire to be found in when I come to die."

WRATH DISARMED.

A man of my acquaintance, who was of a vehement and rigid temper, had a dispute with a friend of his, a professor of religion, and had been injured by him. With strong feelings of resentment, he made him a visit for the avowed purpose of quarrelling with him. He accordingly stated to him the nature and extent of the injury done him, and was preparing, as he afterwards confessed, to load him with a train of severe reproaches, when his friend cut him short by acknowledging, with the utmost readiness and frankness, the injustice of which he had been guilty, expressing his own regret for the wrong which he had done, requesting his forgiveness, and offering him ample compensation. He was compelled to say he was satisfied, and withdrew full of mortification that he had been precluded from venting his indignation, and wounding his friend with keen and violent reproaches for his conduct. As he was walk

ing home, he said to himself, "There must be more in religion than I have hitherto suspected. Were any to address me in the tone of haughtiness and provocation with which I accosted my friend this evening, it would be impossible for me to preserve the equanimity of which I have been witness, and especially with so much frankness, humility and meekness to acknowledge the wrong which I had done; so readily ask forgiveness of the man whom I had injured, and so cheerfully promise a satisfactory recompense. I should have met his anger by anger, &c. There is something in religion that I have hitherto been a stranger to." He soon became a Christian, and at length a minister of the gospel.-Dr. Dwight.

PINEL AND THE PRISONER OF FORTY YEARS.

Pinel had the charge of the Bedlam at Paris, and governed the maniacs by the law of kindness alone, the account of which is extracted from a letter read at the Academy of Sciences, by a son of the celebrated Pinel in 1796.

"The first man on whom the experiment was to be tried, was an English Captain, whose history no one knew, as he had been in chains forty years. He was thought to be one of the