MOOEE'S 2UJK&L MEW-YOUKSa. 



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PARTING TUOliiillTS AT A MSUK'S BRIDAL 



see the amount of good fruit springing fror 

 faithful discharge of every duty to herself, 

 family, society and her Maker; or the evil rest 

 growing from a neglect of those duties, and a \ 

 Torsion of the talents nature has given her. 



EDDIE'S GRAVE. 



The form that moves ibo tightest, 



"Asms to ashes, dust to dust," and they con- 

 gned the little sleeper to his last, long "omc. 

 and night* of intense suffering the 



.Mi., 





iry one 



household,— he who had made so many hearts glad 

 with his merry laugh, quick and buoyuntstep— bad 

 passed from earth, leoviog hearts lone and deso- 

 late. Methinks, even now I see him with the glow 

 of health upon his cheek, those bright and spark- 

 ling eyes, again hear the echo of that clear, merry 

 laugh, telling in stronger terms than language 

 conld, of u free and happy spirit. Dut no; yonder 

 grassy mound upon which lies a tombstone, with 

 his name and age inscribed thereon, also a vacancy 

 in the family circle, a void and aching in our hearts 

 which refuson to he satisfied because- one is not, — 

 all these remind me that ho has passed "to that 





i whci 



Id If, as it mij, her tried spirit aliould fail 



id enrh rloiid bespann'd with tho brow of tbvlove, 



Tins 



WOMAN'S MFLTJENCE. 

 »subjec 



s well nigh 



how few, even of the female portion 

 realize that they do, or cao exert 

 influence on the character 



thought to the subject of that influci 



ety- 





■ for 



Few 



rolled their names among those of the It 

 its of earth,— man haa usually been the 



throwing empires and deciding the destinies of na- 

 tions. To man alone are we indebted for most of 

 those discoveries in science which have so mate- 

 rially altered tho aspect of the world, and man 

 must ever continue to he first in all the great 

 events of life. The Creator has so ordered it, and 

 En endowing htm with greater strength and supe- 

 rior powers of menial and physical endurance has 

 provided for the fulfillment of his own decree. — 

 True, history tells us of a Semi ham is of Assyria, 

 and a Boaokea of ancient Britain, who marched 

 at the head of armies to the battle-field, and led 

 their hosts from victory to victory; and later, 

 Austria has numbered Maria Theresa among tho 

 ablest of her sovereigns, and England under none 

 of her rulers has made greater progress in all that 

 conduces to the honor nnd glory of a nation than 

 under the swuy of the inlloxible Elizabeth.— 

 Bouta, ton, boasts bar Catuaiu.sk, who wielded 

 the aci-plrc of her gigantic realm with aD energy 

 and sagacity worthy of a Nicholas. In literature, 

 also, woman haa begun to reap a few of these laurels 

 man has worn so long and so proudly. Napoleon 

 said of Madame De Stam that her pen wai B 

 weapon thut would hit a man, if he were seated on 



Yet nil this no moro proves that woman's most 

 potent influence lias beonoiertod in public life — or 



10 of t 



n thut the i 



> to the (laming 



7 



__ to the filed stars, tbi 

 dim but changeless light, 



comet sweeping the skies in its erratic uigrn, or 

 the brilliant meteor that flashes for an instant and 

 is gone H i« in private life that woman has ever 



strengthening or weakening the euergics, and con- 

 tributing t'. the happiness or unhappiness of those 

 with ivhnm hlu' nmigk's in the domestic and 6ocial 

 circle. As well might we attempt to estimate the 

 good don* by the silent dews of night, or tell tho 

 amount of VT [\ produced bv poisonous miasmas 

 tbal Boat antra opon the air, as to calculatewhat 



s brought within tho reach of 

 o great day of final ac- 



purified. *lr>ui;ihoiH.l 

 tion with the good, tho 



many intellectual and morul 



perverted, weakened, and destroyed by the influ- 

 ence of weak, unprincipled and tmolona woman 

 to whom they were hound by the tics »f consan- 

 guinity or friendship. Not until Jj 

 have opened the Book of his Remembrance, m 



her influence." Not till | 



inohtcd by ossocia- 

 d the pure of the 

 »• of life, or how 



not doing is set 



herself be enabled to 



jet, though mourning, we can rejoice ( 

 faith and child-like love for Jesus wi 

 change of heart,) that ere those little fei 

 dered long and been firmly set in tho 

 which leads to destruction and death, 

 great mercy plucked our bud and tran 

 to bloom in the Garden of Paradise. 



But our little grave is not the only 

 wounded hearts do not bleed alone, — oh 



OLD FRIENDS TOGETHER. 



As tbose old friends together. 

 The few long known, whom years have 

 With heari* that friendship blesses; 



0hri66 MiseeBhuj. 



KOTO YOUB OWN BUSINESS. 



much trouble would be saved iu tbii 



LADEES AND WOKEN. 



Some words have a magical effect on us from the 

 mental pictures connected with them, or from the 

 estimation in which wc think the things repre- 

 sented by tbem are held. If two or more words 

 express the same qualities in an object, and one of 

 these words implies n manipulation ol lliese quali- 

 ties more valued, we are flattered when that word 

 is applied to ns. What female is not more pleased 

 to bo called a lady than to bo called a woman? 

 When the word is spoken, nobody, now, thinks of 

 what is said to have been its original mean: 





i this 



kofa 



■nly u-eil 



called. But a lady is something nice— redolent 



of band-boxes. The word is suggestive of ribbons 



iress-makmg, delicacy and leisure, money and 



I and the puerilities of factitious refinement so 



these things and conditions are as tfa t/ootl 



if life. 

 Lady ! — the v 



I full ,: 





ised to watch 

 r the reehle, llasln ■-- to enchant , the voice, using 

 culled words, ravishes with a sweetness never tested 

 oding acids. Lady!— the word falls from 

 like the dropping of balsam. But, soinc- 

 'e are amused by its queer use. We have 

 " a woman who always calls her scrubbing 

 "tho lady that washes for me." Why 

 Is Miss Potter a lady, mamma?" asked a 

 little girl of six years, who was with her mother 

 liting in a certain city. " Yes, Miss Potter is a 

 real lady," the mother replied. "But, mamma, she 

 irncd the child; "she washes and 

 cooks breakfast; how can she be a lady?" The 

 niimental only is associated with the word lady. 

 But the word woman smacks of nothing artificial. 

 means only what the Lord God made for man to 

 ve and to live with as part of himself — a dearer 

 part, and a part he will not do wilhout. Many men 

 truth, live tbeir whole lives apart from this 

 half which would make them perfect men; but it is 

 ;ausc some Indy bos given them a serpent instead 

 the bread their souls craved; or the IJDer half 

 i, in the transforming process or fashinu able cul- 

 e, become so changed to a lady, that the stupid 

 n do not recognize in it the one designed to finish 

 tho structure of their manhood. Perhaps, in- 

 deed, the modern schools have so modified mind 

 body, that the "last best gift to man" is no 

 longer a "help- 



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; fit; 



e. So the poor bachelor goes ttnougb lit. 



turning for his spare- rib. All that he sees seemi 



polished to be natural. 



What female, when called a woman, fei I,- a quick 

 ing of the blood ? None. It is a common word 

 pressing a common object, simple, free, and hk< 



1 common things coming direct from Gods band 

 just adapted to a man's nature. Wouiuu expressei 



tho combination of qualities which fills th( 

 uum in a true man's heart; just what is fitted ti 

 blish his happiness, to perfect his human exist 



them. Ladies can ne 

 If they marry, 

 and chagrin. Ladies 

 But the true man wish 

 ral being rather thai, a 

 est earthly ttpiration 

 unshiiie and in Storm 



God ! 





The National Era says it is not for the generation 

 -aiong whom Elizabeth Browning has sung, and 

 Charlotte Bronte spoken, and Harriet nosmer 

 chiseled, and Rosa Bonhcur painted, and Mary 

 Lyon taught, and Florence Nightingale lived, to 

 despair of woman's achievement of her highest 



REFLECTIONS. 



Far back in the unfathomable depths 

 beginning" was conceived the creation 

 DiVerse, and, touched by tho handofOmnis 

 lynads of worlds came forth, vieing will 

 ther in rendering homage to Him " whe 



The 



f their 



Of His 





irnmg stars sa; 



Indelibly written on every leaf was Ibe charac- 

 ter of its Author, but it was not complete until 

 mind prefaced the great book of Nature— tho like- 

 ness of Divinity. Fallen spirits read and envied, 

 and with " malicious I. ei malign" they sullied the 

 purity of that likeness, and sin, with all its hide- 

 ous forms, marred Hie symmetrical beauty of the 

 greatest work which ever emanated from the band 

 of the Divine Artist. 



Man, eager to solve the mysteries of obscuril 



Gon which He has wisely hidden from his d 

 pendent creatures. Allhoueji man has made great 

 discoveries in regard to tho laws which 

 material world, and has made the elemen 

 to his will, spanning the waters of tho deep, and 

 looking into the starry hcarens to measure otbei 

 worlds, there are boundaries to knowledge wliicl 

 he may not pass. The finite is lost in the infinite 



tance between the creature and the Creator. Bu 

 this strange part within, struggling to break thi 

 fetters that bind it as it roams through radiant field: 

 of thought in search of something to answer Ihi 



e beyond the confines of its material abode' 

 : thauk our Maker for the immortality H< 

 ■n us. There will be a time when the chile 

 of Goo will traverse the golden streets of the New 

 Jerusalem— when, washed in the pure waters ol 

 fo, bis soul shall mount on wings ol 

 fathom eternity, then to bask in the 

 rnal truth, which folds in its wide 

 ijesty of creath 



sun.-liii: 



purposes 



Who art thou, 0, man, that boastest of thy wis- 

 dom or thy might? Look out upon the starry 

 orlds above and then consider, that, wilb all the 

 :ory thou wilt have iu thy future home, mill, thou 

 ay est be least in the kingdom of Heaven. If each 

 ■b is peopled with intelligeni 







a myriad of intelligences sur- 

 tbe tbrono to give all the glory to the Crea- 

 the universe. Of tho capacity or condition 

 ind possessed by the inhabitants of other 

 worlds we can form no correct estimate. It is a 

 beautiful thought which we have seen expressed, 

 that perhaps they have never sinned and nro con- 

 stantly enjoying the presence and the smiles of 

 Gon. Perhaps their capacity of mind increases in 

 proportion to the splendor and magnitude of their 

 respective abodes. 



If t! 



larger dw 



ii- plat 



on us a more beautiful, 

 with our present powers 



knowledge and comprohensi 



ime would bo proportionally less. So we may 

 jppose that tho inhabitants of many other glol».-s 

 have arrived at a greater degree of development and 

 advancement in knowledge than mirsclrcs. Hence, 

 I together, from one end of 

 Heaven to tho other, Ihty will be capabl" of enjoy- 

 higher seats in the place 

 prepared for all the righteous. Then, mortal, bum- 

 ble thyself in the dust, for "what is man that thou 

 ndful of him, or tho son of man that thou 

 thimr" Jane E. H. 



PlCTCUES.— 



A room 



villi 



pictures 



thontpictu 



cs.diffe 



ubo 













c think is m 



ore mela 



ncho 



y, parti 



n who bat 



oposs n 



nab 



time in 



bleak walls with nothing on them, —for pic- 

 Lures arc loop holes of escape to the soul, leading 

 la other scenes nod other spheres. It is such en 

 nexpressible relief to a person engaged in writing 

 )r even reading, on looking up, not to have his line 

 )f visi-in chopped off by an odious white wall, but 

 lo find his soul escaping, as it were, through the 

 frame of an exquisite picture, to other beautiful 

 ind perhaps heavenly scenes, where tho fancy for 

 a moment may revel, refreshed ond delighted. 

 Thus pictures are consolers of loneliness ; they are 

 ■olicf to the jaded mind ; they are windows to the 

 prisoned thought ; they are books ; they are his- 

 ies and sermons, which we can read without the 

 labU of turning over the leaves.— Downing. 



if every one would remember and practice upon the 

 old adage, " Mind your own busiuets 

 is a principle implanted iu every human being, 

 it was never intended that it should degenerate 

 that mean, prying-into disposition which we 

 cover evoiywhere about us. In every comrau 

 there is a class of persons who well deserve thetille 

 of " busy-bodies," for they spend all of iheir 

 minding everybody's business hut tbeir own 

 couple see fit to marry, every fact in the history of 

 each is chronicled, and many are tho wonders how 

 they happened to choose each other— just as if tbat 

 were any one's business but their own. Did you 

 ever hear ot a match that suited everybody I I 

 never did any but Lucifer match**. Yet whose 

 business is it, if people suit themselves?— what 

 should wo care? Does a stranger make bis ap. 

 pcarance in town — then, who is he ? where did be 

 comefrom' what is he worth ? ore questions which 

 give our " busy-bodies" employment for some time. 

 Let a person do anything a little out of his line of 

 conduct, and how quick is it noticed and commented 

 upon, just as if 'twere anybody's business what 

 anybody's business is. 

 Finally, there is no character moro despicable 

 busy-bodies "—tattling, mischievous, 

 busy-bodies j" bow easy tho ascont— 

 how quick they carry the mark of the " green-eyed 

 What do they gain ? Not the least 

 thing. They are despised by everybody. If we 

 Id be learned, wealthy and respected, we must 

 ind our own business." They only who labor 

 win the prize. Yea, "mind your own busi- 

 ," ought to be thumptd into the bead of a great 

 peoplo in tho world, for they are a disgrace 

 immunity and the world. 



i themselv. 



WHAT IS WTT1 



The term " wit," in its oldest signification, gen- 

 erally implied rationality, and so we understand 

 it in its derivations "to wit" (to know) "half- 

 witted," "witless," Ac. In the time of Dryden, it 

 expressed fancy, genius, aptitude. Thus tho fa- 

 mous couplet: 



is almost an amplification of thut *' fine frenzy" 

 which Sbnkspcare has delineated, ond "wit," in 

 this sense, is merely a synonym of imagination. 

 Locke, who was a cotemporary of Dryden, defines 

 wi,t as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and 

 putting those together with quickness and variety, 

 wherein can be found any resemblance or cougru- 

 ity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and 

 agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of 

 wit he places in opposition to judgment, which, ho 

 says " lies quite on the other side," in carefully 

 separating one idea from another, wherein can be 

 found the least difference, thereby lo avoid being 

 misled by similitude and affinity, to take one thing 



"GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD." 



" Let there bu llghi." and forth It came, 

 Not tn a hint and metering flams, 

 But pure, effulgent, from the Throne 

 Of Him In whom is light alone, 

 Oon »aw the light thai It was good. 



o proclaim ! 

 LOW the sight, 

 , delight, 



A.i.l..- 



. quol 



and says 



philoM-iphical account of wit I ever 

 shall only add to it, by way of expl; 

 every resemblance of ideas is ootwba 

 unless it be such a one as gives delight and 

 surprise to the reader. Theso two last properti 

 seem essential to wit, more particularly the last of 

 tbem." To come down still later, Dugald Stewa: 

 endorses Locke, with this addition, that wit ir 

 plies a power of calling up at leisure the ide; 

 which it combines, and Lord Kame denominuti 

 wit a quality of certain thoughts and expression 

 and adds — " The term is never applied to an actio 

 or passion, and as little to an external object." 

 Wit, in the modern sense, has a very different 

 meaning. — Selected. 



old 



A GOOD OLD MAN. 



tho best antiquity, anil 



may 







inter fruit, ripened, while others are 



ken down. He hath taken out as many le: 



of the world as days, and learned tho best 



in it— the vanity of it. He looks over his 



life as a danger well past, and would not 



himself to begin again. The near door of 



death sops him not, but he expects it calmly as his 



irn in nature, and fears more his recoiling back 



1 childishness than dust. All men look lo him as 



common father, and on old age, for his sake, as 



'verent. He practices his experience on youth 



ithout the harshness of reproof, and in his coun- 



:1 is good company. He has some old stories still 



' bis own seeing to confirm what he says, and 



akes tliem better in the telling; yet is not Iron- 



esoiuc with the same tale again, but remembers 



with them how often ho has told them. He is not 



apt to put tho boy on a younger man, nor the fool 



»y, but can distinguish gravity from a sour 



nd the less testy he is the more regarded. — 



mst pardon him if ho likes bis own times 



better than these, because those things are follies 



no when we see him, and conjec- 

 by so good a relic. Ho goes away 

 ;r, with oil men's sorrow but bis 



old.— liithop Earle. 



Hour.— How touchingly beautiful are the rela- 

 ms of borne ! There each is bound by an electric 

 chain, that seems to pass to all hearts in the family 

 ; so that one cannot enjoy pleasuro unless 

 all partake in it. If one heart is oppressed, all 

 sympathize; if one is exalted, all must share the 

 happiness. It is in the home where the aching 

 is soothed, where the oppressed are relieved, 

 the outcast reclaimed, the sick healed, or falling, 

 or of pure love drops from the mourner's 

 eyes, when the dear ones are gathered to their long 



iakees a.vd Heabeels.— Hearers will always 

 tpeakers their attention, if speakers will give 



je interested, it is necessary that the latter 

 leresting.— Dr. Emmons. 



IMMORTALITY. 



; this pleasing hope, this tc 



We all know that beyond the turbid waters of 

 eath lies a better country—" even an heavenly." 

 t is taught, not only in Revelation, but all Nature, 



;om the murmuring rivulet to tho boundless 



ic thing within that is 



a ho t 



Hi physi 



weary invalid, 

 feel, to foww- 

 world to which he is fast hastening where there 

 will bo neither sickness nor sorrow. How tho 

 grave loses its horrors illumined by such a faith, 

 in the pure, soul-soothing light of which wc may 

 enter its otherwise gloomy portals hopefully, trust- 

 fully, knowing it is but tbe entrance to an " Eter- 

 nal City whose builder and maker is Goo." 



It is impossible wilh our present organization to 



have a perfect conception of what we shall he when 



incumbered by t 



doth . 





aball 



shall be li 



know that when He s 

 Him, for wo shall sec Him as Ho is." And it is 

 well wc do not, lest becoming weary wilb the dis- 

 asters of this inconstant life, we should wish, and 

 even dare to rush unbidden to our final home, for- 

 getful of the duties to be performed, ere we shall 



us, our souls i 



ould fain leave tbe baser things of 



earth, and soa 



on spirit-wings lo heights unseen, 









ide our time," and cheerfully labor 





ruing to perform aright the duties 





nd then, when this material body 



shall have be 



omc spiritual, we shall, with un- 



clouded vision 



, behold tbe unspeakablo glory of 



Cubist-lik* Senti 



iscopal clergyman 



denomii 



beyond love for 



fearful am I of tl 



