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MGG&S'S &TOAL EPSW-YOHKEK. 



SPEAK GENTLY TO THE EEE1NG. 



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THE MOTHERLESS, 



o flawing slowly In dnpaJr. 





WltU chUdlah Uuil and benalv b 

 o lips are parted— soft and low, 



Told angel vliftonU word ncai 

 By sloop calmed to forgolfulni 



" TVE A KISS FOR THEE, MOTHER. " 



Once again huth tbc Savior Gent His Itcaper- 

 Angel to oar earth home nod bade it take from us 

 a loved heart-jewel. Wo had treasured it well- 

 hud Uddetl ii within the warm folds of our love, 

 and had nudfl for our gem a priceless setting— 

 hud encircled it with the pureit pearls of our 

 nil'ection, until wo hod forgotten that Death loves 

 but to aim its shaft at "a shining mark!" — had 

 forgotten Hint our Father hath said, " Little chil- 

 dren, keep your hearts from idols"— and, almost 

 unconsciously, we bad placed an earthly shrine 

 within our heurt-temple, und we loved to worship 

 there. But the angel whom we lovt not, wrapped 

 his sable plumes about him, and like n darksome 

 shadow, rested beside our door, — watching, 



Morning dawned, and forth came the glad suu- 

 ehino from its nmbor-hued couch, to smile upon 

 tho beautiful earth ! It kissed the dewy tear from 

 the pure flower, glanced through the palace halls 

 of wealth, played nwbilo beside the humble cot- 

 ii entered our darksome home. 

 ohase the shadows from our 

 Jight teemed a mockery, as we 

 r dwelling and it fled away I 

 f.leoping I The long lashes lay 

 silken hair 



tngo door, and < 

 lint it could D 

 hearts, and the i 

 shut it out from 

 Our darling w 

 motionless, on the pule cheek, 

 — a mother's pride— was pi 

 forehead whereon Death had 



ifaed u 



like the n 



■ that I 



led cohlrr when 







Slowly the hazel eyes were opened, and the 

 whit.- lipi parted as if to speak ; the hands were 

 raised, and while affection lent u love-light to th? 

 Mi in OI.-1, ilu' !i]i, « hi;.]., iv, I, " I've a kiss fortbee, 

 mother!— I've a kiss for tbee, mother 1" Then, 

 with the warmth of that kiss still clinging to the 

 marble lips, and the love-lit words still lingering 

 there, he left tho house, 01 todttolattf 



We mourn that the shadow has fallen so heavily 

 upon our hearts, but wo know that in Heaven 

 there is no darkness, no sorrow, and the death- 

 I God's messenger, sent to bear us 

 the dork waters und through tho 

 shadowy vMO, lli,,I «e know that our loved one, 

 our only treasure, is an augel now, and upon his 

 pure brow ho wears a bright-gemmed coronet, 

 lie- has gone i.. !,„>, i Lis a ngrl-si, tor, and together 

 they walk the golden streeti of the "new Jerusa- 

 lem," singing praises the while to tho "Good 



Shepherd." Fit worshipers at God's throne a 



hand of pure-robed children 1 In Heaven we hope 



to mcot him, nevor more to port— aye, never more ! 



Then Told the hand« gently 



O'er the Hill breast; 

 Wake not his slumbers, 



Brighton, * i XhthNotm. 



OMHUnMQ, lm ff,„. Hnwin .„ Frn 

 percd in the world without tho co-operation of bis 

 ; unites In mutual endeavors, .r re- 

 wards his labors w.th aD endearing smile, with 

 W hat confidence will he r«ori to liia merchandise 

 or his farm, Hj over lands, sail u pon BCU mcct 

 difficulty and encounter dinger, if he knows that 

 he is not spending his strength ba T « Qi but tnftt 

 his labor will be rewarded by the sweets of home! 

 Solitude and disappointment enter the history of 

 every man's life ; end he is but half provided for 

 his voyage, who finds not an associate for his 

 happy hours, while fer his months of darkness and 

 distress, no sympathizing partner is prepared. 



bidden from us 

 Meets of kindly 

 with our fellow 

 jrrtban others. 



Fob seme wise purpose uo 

 the power of discerning the e: 



mortals we see some more liat 

 Some appeor never to do a wrong act, so for as 

 we are copeble of judging. Tbey bare been taught 

 from their infancy, perhaps, that it is wrong to 

 wound a fol low-creature's feelings, by tbonghts, 

 acta, words or looks, and the principles that are 

 so thoroughly impressed upon their miuda in 

 childhood follow them through after life, and prove 

 a safeguard to shield then) from meriting the 

 censure of a cold unfeeling world. Then, agait 

 there are those who have to Btroggle through thi 

 life, all alone us it were, unaided by kind words 

 or approving smiles, if, perchance, they perform nc 

 act worthy of either. They know not the power o! 

 a mother's love and example — there i3 no guardiar 

 voice whispering words of peace, comfort or ap- 

 probation, giving " precept upon precept and line 

 upon line." Nay ! they receive nothing but harsh- 

 ness, stern and angry looks. Let us follow those 

 lonely ones to the place where they 

 munion with their own thoughts — v 

 tears that are shed, bear the sighs that 

 a wounded heart— a heart that longs for sympulhy 

 and kindness. Do not our hearts yearn towards 

 them with sympathetic feelings? But are we nol 

 actuated by the impulse of the moment? — are oui 

 kindly feelings founded upon a principle that it 

 filed in the heart ? Let each one answer the ques< 

 tion, remembering that kind words oftentimes 

 turn away wrath, and speak gently to the erring. 



WAITING- FOB DEATH. 



Till the mldnigfat gloom 



While tbc mournful nl^bt- winds grieved, 

 a thousand time* believing. 

 And a lbnniii),] timet deceived, 



children lift a fioger in useful occupations— the 

 boya must have a fast horse and prepare for Col- 

 lege—the girls must dance, play the piano, and 

 simper in the parlor to entertain a brainless ex- 

 quisite, and finally must marry an establishment 

 and live without work. If that is not the pro- 

 - --ing gencrotioo, in a few words, 



tell i 



ciple, and if there i 



becoming a fixed 

 no stop put to 

 ; betide the geoerati 



LEGISLATION IN THE NURSERY. 



unfold inghumun character committed to her charge 



her profoundly ignorant of the phenomena 



which she has to deal, undertaking to do that 



which can be done but imperfectly, even with the 



aid of tbc profoundest knowledge. She knows 



nothing about the nature of the emotions, their 



order of evolution, their functions, or where use 



and abuse begins. She is under the impres- 



that some of the feelings are wholly bud, 



h is not true of anyone of them; and that 



others are good, however far they may be carried, 



is also not true of any one of them. And 



then, ignorant as she is of that with which she has 



1, she is equally ignorant of the effects that 



will be produced on it by this or that treatment. 



coo be more inevitable than the disastrous 



awe see hourly arising. Lucking knowledge 



of mental phenomena, with their causes and con- 



quenccs, her interference is frequently more 



ischievous than absolute passivity would have 



warts; and so diminishes tho child's happiness 

 and profit, injures its temper and her own, and 

 produces estrangement. 



Deeds which she thinks it desirable to encourage, 

 she gets performed by threat* und bribes, or by 

 ng a desire for applause, considering little 

 the inwnid motives may be, so long as the 

 ird conduct conforms, and thus cultivating 

 hypocrisy, and fear, and selfishness, in place of 

 id feeling. While insisting on truthfulness, 

 constantly sets an example of untruth, by 

 sateniug penalties which she does not inflict. 

 While inculcating self-control, she hourly visits 

 her little ones angry scoldings for acts that do 

 ; call for tbem. She has not the remotest idea 

 that in the nursery, us in the world, that alone is 

 I ruiy salutary discipline which visits on all con- 

 duct, good or bad, the natural consequences— the 

 sequences, pleasurable or painful, which in tho 

 ire of things such conduct tends to bring. 

 )g thus without theoretic guidance, nuii quite 

 .pable of guiding herself by tracing the mental 



)»ceWM going on 



n her children, her rule is ini- 



lulsive, incor-sisto 



t, mischievous often in the 



highest degree; an 



3 would indeed bo general!? 





thai the overwhelming tcu- 



dency of the growi 





type of tho race, u 



sually subordinates all minor 



nlluences.— U't.'f// 



miter /.'.n-ir. 



CHILDREN'S FOOD. 



To this fact the attention of parents and guard- 

 ns should seriously bo given, that by it they 

 may leurn to avoid the petty tyranny and folly of 



eat lat, or e«gs, or certain vegetables and 

 holesome" puddings. Now, even a caprice iu 

 such matters should not ho altogethi 

 especially when it takes the form of refusal, be- 

 .use this oaprico is probably nothing less than 

 e expression of a particular and temporary 

 ate of his organism, which we should do wrong 

 disregard. And whenever a refusal Is cou- 

 ant, it indicates a positive unfitness in the food. 

 Only gross ignorance of physiology— nn igno- 

 ince unhappily too widely spread — can argue 

 that because a certain article is wholesome to 

 many, it must necessarily he wholesome to all. 

 Bub indhidun] organism is specifically different 

 from every ether. However much it muv resem- 

 ble others, it necessarily in some points differs 

 from them; and the amount of these differences 

 I often considerable. If the same wave of air 

 .hiking upon the tympanum of two dUTftnnt DUD 

 will produce sounds to the one which to the other 

 [appreciable — if the same wave of light will 

 affect the vision of one man as that of red color, 

 rhile to the vision of another it is no color at all— 

 low unreasonable it is to expect that the same 

 ubstance will hear precisely the same relation to 

 he alimentary canal of one moo as to that of 

 another. — Butiland. 



o Angel grim and paJe 





Is to me an angel or glory. 



Waiting, to hall his coming— 

 Listening, wllb lips apart, 



One hand reached forth to creel him, 

 And one hand upon my heart,— 



RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS. 





When tempteu could not" 

 Ir to pilot a ship across the ocean be a work of 

 great responsibility, requiring prudence and judg- 

 ment, as well as knowlege and experience, much 

 more is it such a work to guide an immortal spirit 

 through the tumultuous sea of youthful passion 

 and childish impetuosity, and to secure lor it a 

 safe passage through the dangers and perils of 



founder and go to tho bottom, and no one, per- 

 haps, suffer a single pain, or breathe nsinglesigh; 

 but an immortal soul, wrecked upon the shores 

 of time, may spend an eternity in sighs and 

 groans, but they cannot undo the post, or rectify a 

 single mistake. 



What the pilot is to the ship, tho parent is to 

 the child. The one conducts tho frail bark far 

 out to sea, beyond the reach of special dangers, 

 and then surrenders his charge into other hands. 

 The other guides a deathless spirit through the 

 perils and quicksands of childhood and youth, 

 and then leaves it to the mercy of a treacherous 

 world, to drift upon the tide of circumstauces, or 

 to follow the bent of its inclinations, given to it 

 byptrenta] training und discipline. Though the 

 parent cannot insure a successful issue, yet he is 

 in a great degree responsible for the future career 

 and the fate of his child ; for it is expressly com- 

 manded, "Train up a child in tho way he should 

 go, and when he is old, he will not depart from 

 If, then, tho words of the wise man are true, 

 and if the children do depart from the way they 

 should go; or, rather, are never taught to walk 

 and go down to destruction and to eternal 

 death, whose fault is it, if it is nol the parent's ? 

 enls cannot be too deeply impressed with 

 eight of responsibility which presses upon 

 them, or of the importance of the early religious 

 uining of the immortal spirit entrusted to their 

 re. Nest to their own solvation, there is no 

 bject of so great importance, or that should 

 mmand so much of their attention, their time, 

 id their labor, as the spiritual and intellectual 

 ucation of their children. It is their duty to 

 ain them up for heaven— to fit them for useful- 

 iss in this world, and for the enjoyment of the 

 st and felicity of the redeemed. This obligu- 



tbe 



njun. 



SHALL I BE CROWNED? 



I us and pra) 



lW wilt, .nbninhk-L.t, 



ehnsydtj'at n 



"'' '" '" •''"•orgrot, 



Shall I be crowned? 



Tm, 



"IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN." 

 n overy-doy phrase, but its si, 





is varied aud often \ 



it sounds reproachful,— 



past lives when we have formed grand proj cols 



to accomplished much good in the world, and 



moke ourselves uoble and great, hut it was only 



an impulse j timt has burned us past the golden 



daya of youth, and us we enter upon the duUos of 



scenes left behind. Wo remember those youth- 

 ful plans, aud tho opportunities for their accom- 

 plishment now lost. How many sad hearts wo 

 might have cheered,— how much of sorrow wo 

 might have escaped,— how much more nofif*- we 

 might have been. These words are like sharp ar- 



sdriv 





LAZIN K, S S . 



ilob i 







And so we are taken as a whole ; yet, 

 )k about us thoughtfully, who can fail to see 

 no one evil is gaining ground faster than 

 laziness, — nothing more nor less than Lizi'ies*, 

 homely as the name may sound. Look into our 

 ry neighborhoods, villages, and cities. — 

 Everybody is trying to get a living without labor. 

 io pedlders traveling around carrying pucks 

 heavy as themselves — not feeble und delicate, 

 persons unable to work, but stout, healthy men, 

 no other disease than Laziuess. See the 

 genteel loafers in cur? village lounging in their 

 chairs, pitching quoits, or strutting about in all 

 [he pride of conscious idleness, with no pennies 

 n their pockets or brains in their heads. Notice 

 :he numbers of healthy young men in our cities, 



n the height of fashion, and displaying to the 



. advantage thei 



fingers. Talk 



: of i 



- 1 wish i 

 fup ; 



nil, ul the 



honest, suubrowned farmer— if it were not for 

 him, ye silly sous of Laziness! you would he 

 than you are. I hove due respect for the 

 . i qI [ contend that, for several 

 years post, this has been the great vortex for lazy 

 people to slip into. If every other avenue leading 

 closed, persons can slip into this and he 

 saved. It is a fuel, you can scarce find an educated 

 days, but he is too lazy to take care 

 of himself. He can eat, sleep and smoke — yes, 

 the aid of n cane— but he cannot 

 work,— no, not he. 

 But this lazy principle is not confined to men 

 one, far from it. It has become a settled fact with 

 ir ladies to which there are few exceptions. 

 hen a man marries he is obliged to marry a 

 to take care of bis wife. She, the 

 licatc one, can not endure the least fatigue — 

 * cannot be burdened with a single care.— 

 Money makes but little difference, — the poorest 

 land, does she not marry to be sup- 

 ported? Talk about the delicate women of this 

 >ge. What makes them dalifiStel nothing hut tht 



lot genteel,— they will not work, how can they be 

 trong? If every woman in the land was obliged 

 o work as hard as our mothers and grandmothers 

 lid, there would be fewer diseases and deaths than 

 iow. More die from Laziness than hard labor, i 



airy 



en and 



:.men aU . 



had never been given them to bring up 

 ildron in the nurture and admonitioi 

 Lord. Yet bow many there are in every c 

 children even of professing Christii 

 , through the negligence of their parents 

 force of their evil example, or the wan 1 

 .•Iv or judicious instruction, have grown up in 

 ;norancc; to become vicious, profligate, and 

 icked men; a cause of grief to their parents, 

 ad a source of moral contagion to tho wide circle 

 cquainlanee in which they move. Many 



i these evils, and chargi 



which thcy 

 ■ tending to 

 ruin.— Advocate 



tbem to their proper source, who at the 

 are little conscious that the coi 

 pursuingwith their own child) 

 same results— to profligacy a 

 and Gimritwn. 



The Umvu-ii. I.ivm \.-.i. I'rentice, of the 

 Louisville Journal, says:— The English language 

 seems destined to gather to itself all the scattered 

 reader*. Slowly it is whispering its waj 

 heart of mankind— and is acknowledged to be the 

 best adapted to the universal reader. In Lord 

 Bacon's time he deemed the Latin language the 

 safest to entrust his immortality in. "I do con 

 ceive," bo said, "that the Latin volume*, beinj 

 the universal language, may last as long as hook 

 last." Milton, more modest, " content," (to usi 

 his own expression with regard to Britain and hi 

 native tongue.) " with these Islands as my world,' 

 set his great works in the English. lie did no 

 care " to be once named abroad," though he deemed 

 that he might have attained to that. "Paradise 

 Lost" was written in English, and where 

 not read in English, and where is it not "named 

 abroad ■" English readers have been sown like 

 seed in 



Whatever clime tho sun's bright circle warms; 

 the English language has been planted on oil 

 shores— nod everywhere, like a native flower ol 

 thought, it grows. And everywhere are its leaders 



A Man- force in the world, other things being 

 equal, is just in the ratio of the force and strength 

 of his heart. A full-hearted man is always 

 erful man ; if he be erroneous, then be is powerful 

 for error; if the tl.io- \- in his heart, he is sure to 

 make it notorious, even though it may be a down- 

 right falsehood. Let a man he BTffl 

 still if his heart be full of love to the cause, he be- 

 comes a powerful man for that object, because he 

 has heart-power, heart-force. A man may be de- 

 ficient in many of the advantages 

 many of those niceties which are 



a looked 





icly ; but c 



beats hard, and there is no mistake about his 

 power. Let him hove a heart that ii right full up 

 to the brim with an object, ond that man will do 

 the thing, or else he will die glorious! 

 and will glory in his defeat. Heart is power. — 

 Qpurgton. 



The sorrows, calamities and disappointment, 

 that a man sutlers outwardly, bare a most inti- 

 mate, although secret, connection with hidden 

 evils, until these are removed, it is in vain to hope 

 that the outward 1;!.. eaa th- orderlv, pleasant, and 



improved opportunities, lost pleasures, long cher- 

 ished hopes now crushed. Daily, as we peruse. 

 our life-book, as we turn over leaf alter I, at, m 

 read upon almost every page — "U might fuxvo 



An old man sat aud pondered. His locks wero 

 white with age, and his countenance showed that 

 he had been a man of crime and sorrow. His 

 feutures indicated deep, earnest thought. Now 

 and then you might discover a smite as though a 

 reyor light had penetrated his dark soul— ho was 

 thinking of long ago, when, in his boyish dreams, 

 he hud resolved lo be great ami good. And why 

 should he uotV Ili.s prgspeeis wero us fair as 

 those of others ; he fancied that his intellect, nat- 

 urally so brilliant, hud been cultivated; that his 

 heart hud been made alive to all that wus pure; 

 that he honored Got. as his Creutor,— his follow- 

 mau us himself, and in return was honored. Then, 

 again, you might have seen ih it cold, sad look, as 

 if tho durkue^s within WQS still more profound,— 

 in tho light of faucied pru«prrity he hud seen more 

 distinctly tbc great moral and intellectual wreck. 

 His misery was teufold greater, und he only 

 sighed, "It might have been." 



Sometimes these words are expressive of heart- 

 felt gratitude. We consider what our condition 

 WOUld have been, had nut our kind Father in 

 Heaven led us so gently, and watched us so 

 carefully. Many limes our feet had well nigh 



biddeu from our eyes by a veil of error; «w 

 might have been like the hundreds ol fallen 

 ones about US, destitute of every generous im- 

 pulse. The fountain* ol ponlj might l.uvo been 

 forever sealed,— despair might have been thrown 

 like a thick mantle about us. We shrink back, 

 almost overwhelmed, undeiclalm, " It might hove 

 been." Everyday BJ the expression rises to our 

 lips, if it expresses might of discontent, check it, 

 for, though our past lives may have been clouded. 



But if it is the out-gushing of a grateful 

 give it utteruncc, that, by ubuekwaid glum 

 evil thut might have been, the sunshine 

 future may not be darkened. If. 



Lima, H. Y., 18W, 



i ■ PoiDB. — Take some 90 at, 



meut of life, und add together the two ideas of 

 pride and man ; behold him, creature ol a spau, 

 stalking throngs Infinite space [n all the grandeur 

 of littleness. Perched on a spook of the universe, 

 every wind of heaven strikes into his blood the 

 coldness of death; his soul Hosts from bis body 

 from the str.ug; day and night, as 

 dust on the wheel, he Is rolled along the heavens, 

 through a labyrinth of worlds, and all the crea- 

 tions of God arc flaming above and booesth [■ 

 this o creature to make for himself a crown of 

 glory, to deny his own flesh, to mock at his fellow, 

 sprung from the dujt, to wbioh both will soon 

 return! 1 Does the proud man not err? Does he 

 uotsufTer? Does ho not die' When he reason*. 

 ' topped by difficulties? When he 

 acts, is he never tempted by pier 

 lives,!.* he free from pain'' When DC 

 he escape the common gTove* Pride " 

 heritage of man ; humility should dwell with 

 frailty, and atone for igoora 

 n.-6>/' 



and impcr- 



Cohpaviox Si 

 is generally foui 

 .the door; 

 gain admission I 



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appj 



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, lv _ilow little of the sea can a child 

 i Land : AS little do 1 take away of m 



the love of Christ. 



