"LANDLORD AND TENANT." 14:1 



sincerely believed, to be conducive to true hap- 

 piness in every other department of life, as Mon- 

 day's conversation is sometimes at variance with 

 the good feeling or good resolutions experienced 

 at the close of Sunday's sermon. 



It is as long ago as the days of Charles II. that 

 in one of these same " Sunday sermons " a remark 

 was made which has not only traveled down safely 

 to our own time, but enjoyed the more remarkable 

 truth-stamp of instant activity in its own, in being 

 carried away by two listeners, who the following 

 day met each other half-way to shake hands and 

 settle, by a little mutual concession, some troubled 

 subject that had long kept them wide apart. The 

 remark was that " Selfishnesse seeking but its own 

 sunshine is blynded, lookynge on the light ; but 

 wisdome, like a true archer, turneth his own back 

 to the sunne, and letting the light fall upon the 

 mark, taketh a steadier and surer aym : and thus 

 should he who seeketh his own happiness consider 

 well the posture of his neighbour, and placing him- 

 self therein, look back as it were upon himselfe ; 

 and most surely, after due habit, (for the tryal is 

 at first of difficult empryse,) he shall find the 

 whole matter between them such as one may 

 presently know wherein the due correction lyeth." 



