Be ye kind one to another,

"I am the light of the world."

prospect of their discharge. If your object is gentility,
or the credit of belonging to good society, or the
most rapid accumulation of property, and you are
willing to sacrifice happiness for it, I might, perhaps,
give you different advice; but if your real object is
to secure happiness, this is the only way.

ЈАСОВ Аввотт.

THE GREAT EXEMPLAR.

HRIST was an example to men of all classes
and under every variety of circumstances.
To the great? "A greater than Solomon
is here." To the mean? "Is not this the
carpenter?" To the rich? He is "heir of all

things." To the poor?
To the poor?

"Foxes have holes,

and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of
man hath not where to lay his head." To the famous ?
"Behold the world is gone after him!" To the
obscure? "Can there any good thing come out of
Nazareth?" To the sorrowing? "Jesus wept." To
the joyous? He "rejoiced in spirit." To the
tempted? "All these things will I give thee if thou
wilt fall down and worship me." To the injured?
"His visage was marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men." To the powerful ?

The name of the Lord is a strong tower.

Tender-hearted one to another.

Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.

Righteousness tendeth to life.

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father,
and he shall presently give me more than twelve
legions of angels?" To the loved? "Lord, I am
ready to go with thee to prison and to death." To the
slighted? "I know not the man."
I know not the man." To the insulted?

Be ye come out as against a thief with swords and
with staves?" To the betrayed? "Whomsoever I shall
kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away

safely." To the idol of the crowd? "Hosanna to
the Son of David!" To the butt of their scorn?
"Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas!"
REV. O. G. CAMPBELL.

TRUE NOBÍLITY.

NOBILITY of blood

Is but a glitt'ring and fallacious good.
The Nobleman is he whose noble mind

[kind.

Is fill'd with inbred worth, unborrowed from his
Virtue alone is true nobility:

Let your own acts immortalise your name,
'Tis poor relying on another's fame :

For take the pillars but away, and all
The superstructure must in ruins fall;

As a vine droops, when by divorce removed
From the embraces of the elm she lov'd.

DRYDEN.

By pride cometh contention.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright.

The mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride.

Know thyself.

BE WHAT YOU SEEM.

EVER affect to be other than you really are -either richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to say, "I do not know." Men will then believe you when you say, "I do know." Never be ashamed to say, whether as applied

to time or money, "I cannot afford it. I cannot afford to waste a day in the idleness to which you invite me, or to spend a sovereign in the way you wish me.” Once establish yourself and your mode of life as what they really are, and your feet are on solid ground, whether for the gradual step onward, or for the sudden seizure of a favourable opportunity. Learn to say "No" with decision, "Yes" with caution-"No" with decision when it meets a temptation, "Yes" with caution when it implies a promise. A promise once given should be regarded as a bond inviolable. A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that he may be implicitly relied upon. We frequently see, in everyday life, persons preferred from a long list of applicants for some important post, which exalts them at once in station and fortune, merely because they have the reputation of being men of their word -men who, when they say that they know a thing, really know it, and when they say they will do a thing, will really perform it.

Seem what you are.

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge.

Speculation oft becomes peculation.

want.

The love of money

THE DANGER OF SPECULATION.

ONEY itself is good. In the words of Solomon, "it answereth all things;" not only luxury, but comfort, convenience, necessity demand it. And yet the acquisition of it is beset with moral perils. In our insane

eagerness to be rich we delude ourselves with the idea that gold can fill and satisfy the soul. We regard no calamity so great as pecuniary The boy has his money-box, and learns to hoard as soon as he can speak. "The chief end of man," he is taught, is to make a good bargain. He is fired with a passion to set up in business for himself prematurely, and to rush into every path that seems to open out into a boundless accumulation.

Two tempters stand before the young man, and beckon him to follow them. First, a reckless speculation. Under this influence men are ready to invest their all in projects, a few of which may be likely or profitable, but the greater portion of which are visionary and chimerical. Bales of goods and risks of commission are staked at the table; and even many kinds of business, once followed with honesty, moderation, and a healthy success, are now pursued as games of chance.

Is the root of all evil.

Overtrading is the ruin of many.

He that hath and winna keep it,

He that wants and winna seek it,

Not a few thus spread out their business till it gets beyond their control; they overbuy goods; they live beyond their means, trusting that everything will come right in the end. So eager are they for all possible investments that, as a man said, "If it were proposed to build a bridge to Tophet, the stock would readily be taken up." But soon every mercantile building so founded totters and falls, and great is its fall.

Others, in their passion for sudden accumulation, practise secret frauds, and imagine there is no harm. in it so long as they are not detected. But they cover up their transgression in vain-God sees it to the bottom; and let them not hope to keep it always even from man. In the long chain of events, "be sure your sin will find you out." He who is carrying on a course of latent corruption and dishonesty-be he president of some mammoth corporation, head of a manufacturing establishment, or engaged only in a small private business-is sailing in a ship, like that fabled one of old, which comes ever nearer and nearer to the magnetic mountain, that will at last draw every nail out of it. All faith in God and all trust in man will eventually be lost, and he will get not reward but punishment for his guilt. The very winds will sigh forth his iniquity; and "a beam will come out of the wall" to convict and smite him.

Siller shall want as well as I.

He that drinks and is not dry,