the o 





imp, wbe 



n tie :hadow of a 



rccer, 





•i darkened our household 



















cloud 



and orenting by ber 



presence an atmoa 



pbere 



of joy and i 



Jve. Sho 





sainted sister, and 







mother's sake, mid 



after wu re 



for her own sweet 



self. 



She eeeaied a 



little mi 





of all 



and beat 



tilul and to rue A 



becao 



e dearer than 



ill the wo 





Louse 



and garden, 



in kilcbe 





1 the i 







i the fi 



r child, and parted with regret ft 

 one who see died formed only for love. Cut i 

 darling was too pure for earth, and Heaven 1 

 need of her. While sitting on a low stool at 

 feet, and singing, in ber peculiarly sweet t 

 varied tones, 



she complained of sudden faiutness, and as i 

 became rapidly worse, we sont for the family 

 Physician. The child was a particular favori 

 WW good old doctor, and though he told us t 

 WW hope, yet I could gather hltle encouragement 

 and m , nn „ , noticed his agitated voice 



"uly attempted to control, 

 painful than 



pain for the 



But wby liug 



1 Kl " < ■■■■- ■■■■- 



for ua, and of the moat „,„ 

 little sufferer, and iii en „ ur Hli|)| .. 

 angel." We gazed f»r the last iitn e , 

 couuteDftnce, beautiful cv en j n uoa , h ' 

 still hovering about the rigid lip a ,,' 

 buried ber forover from our sight. 



fitha 



Dill 



all 



long, melancholy day, dark 



clouds had obscured the brightness c 

 sky, and though the evoning brought no c 

 yet I could not resist the strong impuli 

 prompted me to visit our darling's ne* 



houghtfulness in jour mouth, that you : 

 lothiug unpleasant, and the angel that has "bee 

 u Lis heart with folded wings wi 

 bewn to flutter, and lift itself heavenward in, 

 look out of his eyes with the love of the olde 

 time, and your home will yet be the paradise yc 



TainuTE to Womax.— The celebrated traveler, 

 Ledvard, paid the following bandBome tribute to 

 the female aex:— "I have observed," he says, 

 at women >" alt countries ore civil, obliging, 

 tender and Humane. 1 never addressed myself to 

 them in the language of decency and friendship, 

 without receiving a friendly answer. With man 

 it has often been otherwise. In wandering over 

 tbo barrens of inhospitable Denmark ; through 

 frozen Lapland; rude and 

 ^principled Russia; and the 

 i of tbo wandering Tartar ; if 

 Id or sick, the women have 

 :ver neon friendly, and uniformly so; and to add 

 o t us virtue, (so worthy the appellation of be- 

 .evoleucc,) tbeae actions have been performed it 

 o free and kind a manner, that if I „ U8 dry I 

 light, and if hungry ate the 



urliah Finland 

 ngT, dry, wel 



t morsel ■. 



idoul 





Fresh Jib— Cive your children plenty of fresh 

 nir. Lei them SDiifTit until it sends the ro3y cur- 

 rent of life dancing joyfully to their temples. Air 

 is so cheap, and so good, and so necessary withal, 

 that every child should have free access to it. 

 Horace Mann beautifully says : — " To put children 

 on a short allowance of fresh air, is as foolish as it 

 would have been for Noah, during the deluge, to 

 have put his family on a short allowance of water. 

 Since Gon has poured out an atmosphere of fifty 

 miles deep, it is enough to make a miser weep to 

 seo our children stinted in breath." 



youth " in life's green spri 

 smile is like a ray of light, 

 " My brightest days are in tht 



and fame, and thick clustering honors. What are 

 the joys of boyhood to them?" Ask the maiden. 

 She tells of a happy home, of a loving heart, and 

 the society of her friends ; or, perhaps, she hopes 

 for pomp, for the homage of the noble and the 



of Oriental splendor and luxurious ease 

 The praise and respect she receives she cares not 

 for, as they are but shadows of what her fancv has 

 painted. Ask the biidegroom, whose last wish is 

 gratified in the possession of the long sought 

 the ideal, and fancy paints 

 a beautiful home, shaded by trees of his own 

 planting, where he shall see her smile for him 

 tification of one hope sends him 

 se, and wealth, which shall be all 

 that shall crown her head as well 

 ic, whose trumpet sba.ll proclaim 

 her name and his alike— all these come thronging 

 in prompting to new effort. And when years have 

 passed, and memory reverts to this time, he will 

 sigh that we can only enjoy the pi 

 glass through which we see joys and pli 

 magnified, far in the future— summits still unat 

 tained and victories still unwon. 



Ask the man of honors— the man who has gainec 

 the object of his ambition, and on whose brow th( 

 laurel wreath sits with the grace of worthiness, 

 He speaks not of all this, but ho may point tc 

 some little brown house, some favorite old haunt, 

 some iit'Ahir, whose lingers were twining in his 

 hair, whose ready heart conceived, and ready hand 

 erublo on him, her idol. 



so soothing and gentle, 

 last echoes die away. 



snderly did s 



e bid hei 

 irough the forest 1 



THE BRIGHT SIDE. 



He!: 



ip h« 



school-boy to the man of wealth, of 

 fame— and he knows that all is false that glitt. 

 so brightly. He remembers as the only tr 

 friendship the sunny-eyed mate of his boyish 

 sports— the only happiness is narrowed 

 the hours of his childhood, and the only 

 the holy affection of a mother. 



But t 



I th;,; ;, 



we hoped. Ho still looks forward to the comforts 

 of old age— thinks of the arm-chair by the fireside; 

 the happy smiles of those to whom he will be a 

 father; the welcome paper which is to be the link 

 binding him to the external world; when, with 

 his toil completed, ho feels that he can surrender 

 the cares to those who have so long looked to him 

 for guidance. Rapt gives the joy that thus far has 

 1 his grasp. Munonj turns bis eyes to the 

 past, and his greatest pleasure is in reverting to 



many a happy hour many a good deed. 



Geneva, N. T., 1BB9. BOLOM, 



We should be very careful that, in our anxiety 



) get the outward part of an action performed to 



ur mind, wo do not destroy that germ of spon- 



taneousness which could alone give any signifl- 



e to tbo action.— Fruils of Leimtrt. 



is the sunshine, and 



ot the cloud, that makes a 



flower. There is alwa 



ys that before or around us 



which should cheer an 



! fill the heart with warmth. 



The sky is blue ten t 





You have troubles, i 



may be. So have others. 



None are free from t 



em. Perhaps it is as well 



that none should be. 





to life — fortitude an 



courage to man. That 





nd the sailor would never 



get skill, where there 



was nothing to disturb the 



nd 



ment day, tha 



it was to do a 



did others that 







sin gorgeous a 



iparel and fared 





ltuously every 



day, while the 



cause of Christ 



«>« 













how long m 



st fashion rule us with iron 





, and we be c 



ntent to knee 



at her shrine? 



loi 



long must the 



spirit of pride 



Mid selfishness, 



wht 



h this love of d 



splay engende 



s, be indulged? 









o consider her 



1061 



ion, and ask h t 



rself whether! 



is one God can 



IT 

 ire- 



Thl'.oT.^ 



*go up to His 



anctuary so at- 

 ulate our style 



Lire 





we not virtu 



lly deprive the 



His, iu the great day of His final a 



surface of the ocean. It is the duty of every one 



without and within him ; and, above all, he should 

 look on the bright side of things. What though 

 things do look a little dark? The lane will turn, 

 and tbe night will end in broad day. In the long 

 run, the great balance rights itself. What is ill 

 becomes well— what is wrong, right. Men are 

 not made to hang down either heads or lips, and 

 those who do, only show that they are departing 

 paths of true common senso and right. 



Then.: ,. 



l than a whole 



i:,l, an. I i 



jright side of things. Culti- 

 nd genial— not the cold and 

 id morose— Selected, 



The Hour of Death— I have lived to ; 



this world is full of perturbations; and I hi 



been preparing to leave it, and gatberiug 



the awful hour of makiDg up my accov. 



d, which I now apprehend to be neai 



ugh I have, by his grace, loved him in mj 



ith, and feared him in my age, and labored t< 



have a conscience void of offence towards all men ; 



yet, if thou, Lord, should'et be extreme to mark 



what I have done amiss, how shall I avoid it! 



Where I have failed, Lord, show mercy to me; for 



I plead not my righteousness; but the forgiveness 



of unrighteousness, through His merits who died to 



purchase pardon for penitent sinners. And since 



I owe Thee a death, Lord, let it not be terrible, and 



then choose Thy own time; I submit to it. Let 



not mine, Lord, but Thy will he done. — •tf^'i- 



ird Hooker. 



Prayer.— Prayer dn 



And 



ith her el 



aucbor, Dei 

 looking far i 



Tunne is nothing like a fixed steady a 

 i honorable purpose. It dignities you 



,11 the Christian graces 

 oaritywiin her lovely 



} pe with her grasped 

 ier open hands, Zeal 

 and Humility looking 



, n MN,^.-Wh(it are thethrcaten- 

 , hut the warnings of divine love r— 

 c thrown round the pit of perdition 

 h men from running iuto ruin. 



Z-i. 



