Away then with "helpings" which humble and harm;
Though "bettering" trips from your tongue :
Away! for your folly would scatter the charm
That round my proud poverty hung;

I felt that I stood like a man at my post,
Though peril and hardship were there, -

And all that our wisdom would counsel me most,
do better elsewhere."

Is "Leave it :

:

If "better" were better indeed, and not "worse; '

I might go ahead with the rest;

But many a gain and a joy is a curse,

And many a grief for the best;

No! duties are all the "advantage " I use;

I pine not for praise or for pelf,

And as to ambition, I care not to choose
My better or worse for myself!

I will not, I dare not, I cannot ! - I stand
Where God has ordained me to be,

An honest mechanic - or lord in the land-
HE fitted my calling for me;

Whatever my state, be it weak, be it strong,
With honor, or sweat on my face,

This, this is my glory, my strength, and my song,
I stand, like a star, in MY PLACE.— Sharpe's Mag.

How intimately conversant may we be with the invisible God, and that blessed Spirit that understands not only our words, but our sighs and groans, and the living sense thereof that is unutterable! God can also be conversant with us, whithersoever we go; wheresoever we are. As soon as we retire into ourselves, with a design to converse inwardly with God, He is immediately present with us, and it is as easy to converse with Him as with our own thoughts. As soon as we think, so soon are we with God, as soon is He with us. In the twinkling of an eye we find Him. We look unto Him, and are lightened. Thus with the cast of the eye, the soul is filled; it finds itself replenished with a divine and vital light, diffusing the sweetest and most pleasant influences and savors through the soul. Howe.