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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
>abbatj) failings. 
Cbumfional Defiartnroit. 
BY I,. WETHE RJ3LL. 
LEARNING TO READ. 
You think it not too soon to bp,Tin in early childhood to 
form the body to gracefulness, to correct the bad postures, 
attitudes, manner of walking and standing; only think it 
as important to form the mind early. — (Quintilian. 
An old man learning his A, B, C, is an odious and ridic¬ 
ulous sight.— Seneca. 
Cards, charts and blocks have been in¬ 
vented to aid the child in learning A, B, C. 
This has tended to turn the art of learning 
to read into a kind of play. The inquiry 
may very be properly put to those who resort 
to such methods for teaching a child his 
letters, What is gained ? Is it right to im¬ 
press tho child with the notion that ho has 
nothing to do but play ? That his wholo 
life is to be one continued succession of play 
days ? Or is it not better early to impress 
him with tho important consideration, that 
there is work to bo done—a time to apply 
himself to something less amusing than play 
—in order that ho may acquire tho habit of 
application ? 
We are of tho opinion that children 
should be early impressed with tho notion 
that play is not an end, but a moans to an 
end—that children have more serious busi¬ 
ness to employ themselvos about, than mere 
amusement. We would not mako tho ap¬ 
plication so unremitting as to weary and 
exhaust the physical energies of the young 
—far from it. But wo would early impress 
tho child, even, with tho difference between 
work and play—and that both may bo 
necessary, for some at least, and perhaps 
for all. 
The books that are to bo first used by 
children, should bo made as attractive as 
possible to the mind—and then they should 
bo required to take good care of them, be¬ 
cause these are tho implements, so to speak, 
to bo used in accomplishing a certain work, 
which is learning tho art of reading and 
spelling. 
The best book that wo have seen to aid 
parents and instructors in teaching children 
the first principles of reading, is tho “Stu¬ 
dent’s Primer,” by Denman. Wo liavo tried 
this, and speak from experience. 
The child that has been for a long time, 
relatively, allowed by his parents to follow 
tho bent of its own inclinations, will bo tho 
most difficult to govern and teach. Many 
children are sent to school to be taught 
their letters, that have never been under 
any systematic discipline at home — have 
never obeyed, only when to obey, gratified 
tho leading propensity of their nature,— 
and the teacher is either orally or tacitly 
forbidden to use corporal punishment, and 
at tho same time, required to govern and 
instruct such embryos of futuro generations. 
This is worso than requiring that bricks 
should be made without straw—for this can 
be done, while tho other, under such condi¬ 
tions, is, ordinarily, an impossibility. 
If tho children aro brought up under 
good family discipline, they can usually be 
easily taught when sent to school, if the 
teacher understands his vocation. Facts 
are numerous which go to establish this po¬ 
sition. If parents will, they can easily fix 
in their children, the love of books and 
study. Will you do this ? 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Essays and Reviews, Chiefly on Theology, Poli¬ 
tics, and Socialism. By 0. A. Brownsox. LL. 
D. New York: D. <fc J. Sadlier <fc Co.—1852. 
Among tho most important Essays in this 
volume, are the following : “Authority and 
Liberty,” “Political Constitutions;” “War 
and Loyalty,” “The Higher Law;" “Cath¬ 
olicity Necessary to Sustain Popular Lib¬ 
erty;” “Legitimacy and Revolution ;” “ Na¬ 
tive Americanism;” “ Labor and Associa¬ 
tion ;” “ Socialism and the Church.” These 
aro all very able discussions, on popular and 
interesting topics. There aro others more 
strictly theological. It is adesirable book. 
For sale at McMahon & Co.’s, 142 State St. 
A Hand-Book of the English Language, for the 
use of the Students of the Universities and 
Higher Classes of Schools. By It. G. Latham, 
M. D., F. R. S., Late Professor of the English 
Language and Literature, University College, 
Loudon. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 
This is a work of great research, and 
with every thinking scholar will be found 
full of suggestive themes for study and re¬ 
flection. Tho Germanic origin of the Eng¬ 
lish language, its affinities with other lan¬ 
guages,—a careful and critical investigation 
of its etymology and alphabet, &c.,—ren¬ 
ders it a work of great value to the philolo¬ 
gist and teacher. We commend it to the 
attention of all students in language. Hol¬ 
brook, at Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.’s, has it 
for sale. 
Religious toleration is a duty, a virtue, 
which man owes to man; considered as a 
public right, it is the respect of the govern¬ 
ment to the consciences of tho citizens and 
the objects of their veneration and their 
faith .—P or talis. 
ADVANTAGES OF CLASSIFIED SCHOOLS. 
The early organization of classified Com¬ 
mon Schools, will confer upon any commu¬ 
nity some important advantages which are 
generally overlooked. It seems to bo taken 
lor granted, by many towns and districts of 
the State, which are delaying the thorough 
and proper re-organization of their public 
schools, that lost time can be mado good by 
an energetic movement and a liberal ex¬ 
penditure of money, at some future conve¬ 
nient period. A great sensation may be sud¬ 
denly made, and notoriety very soon acquir¬ 
ed, but solid advantages are of much slow¬ 
er growth. Other things being equal, those 
towns and cities of the State that aro first 
in the field, with really good schools, have 
an immense advantage over others, which 
they may hold as long as they please. Lost 
time is never mado good anywhere; and 
whether in the student’s quiet life, the pur¬ 
suits of ordinary business, or the great in¬ 
terests of the public, the contrary is impos¬ 
sible—absui d. Rewards bolong to effort, to 
patient toil, to sacrifice and to unwearied 
faithfulness anywhere and everywhere.— 
But the advantages—lot us look at them. 
1st. Tho older pupils will receive some 
benefits, which would otherwise bo lost to 
them and to the community. 
2d. The younger pupils will receivo some 
benefit of a systematic course of instruction 
through the entire period of their school 
training. This is a matter of tho first im¬ 
portance. Eccentricities, omissions and ir¬ 
regularities during early life, can never en¬ 
tirely be made good by any subsequent la¬ 
bor or expense. 
3d. The soonor tho strong and salutary 
influences of good order, and thorough dis¬ 
cipline. and tho respectful demeanor of tho 
school room, can bo felt upon the largo mass 
of children of a town or city, the sooner the 
streets will bo free,jby night and by day, from 
disturbances and violence. 
4th. When a school system, worthy of the 
namo, is actually put into operation, its ar¬ 
rangements and influences, more or less, ef¬ 
fect tho habits and domestic arrangements 
of the wholo community. Tho sooner and 
the more perfectly these are mado to har¬ 
monize witli tho new order of things, the 
greater will be the success of tho system. 
5th. The public schools of our country 
are to furnish tho laborers, tho mechanics, 
the business men, the citizens of every com¬ 
munity. Thesooner these grow up intelli¬ 
gent and upright, the moro truly prosper¬ 
ous and happy will be tho community, in¬ 
dependent of all outward advantages. 
6th. Tho sooner a solid reputation for 
proper elementary training is acquired for 
any town or city, the sooner the very best 
class of citizens choose it for a home — for 
a place of residence for themselves, and all 
their relatives and f riends. 
HINTS TO TEACHERS. 
Do not mako much noise yoursrlf in 
talking. Some teachers aro forever scold¬ 
ing, fretting, and finding fault. They pitch 
their voices on a high koy in the morning, 
and keep up a tempest all day. Now there 
is no need of this ; indeed it is worso than 
useless, for scholars get so accustomed to 
hearing this perpetual ding-dong, that they 
pay but little or no attention to it. I 
know that words of reproof and correction 
are sometimes necessary ; but a few words 
are better than many, and whenever you 
have occasion to use them, speak with ear¬ 
nestness and decision, define your position 
distinctly upon tho matter under considera¬ 
tion and then act precisely as you talked. 
Aside from oral instruction and explana¬ 
tion in connection with recitations, you 
should say as little as possiblo. Study brev¬ 
ity. One singlo word is all that is neces¬ 
sary in calling out a class and even this may 
be dispensed with, and a signal of some kind 
—a tail of the bell, perhaps — substituted. 
The eye and the hand can speak, often more 
effectually than the voice; and you will no¬ 
tice that where schools are particularly cx 
cellent in regard to system and order, much 
of this kind of language is employed by the 
teachers in moving the nico and complicated 
machinery. 
In dismissing your school at tho closo or 
for recess, you will find it expedient to adopt 
some plan of doing it, so as to avoid the 
hubbub and confusion that would follow 
upon pronouncing the words, “ School’s dis¬ 
missed ;” “ Boys may go out,” or similar 
common signals of sudden emancipation.— 
A pretty good plan for a small school, is to 
require the scholars to leave the school sin¬ 
gly, by calling off their names or numbers 
from tho general roll; or moro rapid way, 
and some profor it, is to dismiss by sections 
or divisions. For a large school composed 
chiefly of young pupils, a better plan is to 
have them pass out in singlo file, falling into 
line from the several rows of desks with 
military precision, and preserving the line 
unbroken till tho door is reached. 
Exercise for Boys. —Wo love to see 
boys happy. Wo well remember our school¬ 
days—how the joyful scones of those golden 
hours rise before us as we write. After a 
long and labored session of school, what is 
finer for boys than a good frolic on the green 
grass ? See them !—they hop and run, and 
toss their hats and balls;—every bone and 
cord and muscle of their young and active 
frames is brought into full and vigorous play. 
Their minds are unpent as well as their bo¬ 
dies. Let boys have exercise. They must 
havo it, and a good deal too; and they must 
have the right kind, or they will become 
sickly and dwarfish, their minds feeblo, and 
their feelings peevish and fretful. Tho 
open air, and the more free and pure tho 
better, is important to good exercise to any 
one, but especially to boys. Otherwise they 
will bo pale and weak, as a plant doomed to 
the shade. They must have exercise which 
makes them forget themselves, and all their 
troubles and tasks, and throws the mind and 
heart into a glow of life and joy. 
Hutoal Bistonj. 
BOWER - BIRDS. 
Among tho most extraordinary of the 
Australian birds, are the bower-birds, so call¬ 
ed from their constructing little galleries or 
j covered ways for their own amusement and 
recreation, in no way connected with their 
nests. Thoso of the spotted bower-bird, 
Chlamydera macula to, are almost three feet 
long, constructed outwardly of twigs, and 
beautifully lined with tall grasses, so dis¬ 
posed that their points converge above.— 
The most singular thing is, that theso little 
arbors aro profusely, if not richly, decorated 
in various ways, being strewed over with 
shells, the skuils of small quadrupeds, bones, 
and miscellanous articles. 
“ I have frequently,” observes our author, 
“ found these structures at a considerable 
distance from the rivers, from the borders 
of which they could alone havo procured 
these shells and small, round pebbly stones; 
their collection and transportation must, 
therefore, have been a task of great labor 
and difficulty. As these birds feed almost 
entirely on seeds and fruits, tho shells and 
bones cannot havo been collected for any 
other purpose than ornament.” 
Tho actual nest of this bird is very simi¬ 
lar to that of the common thrush of Eu¬ 
rope. It was found among the smaller 
branches of an acacia, overhanging a pool 
of water. 
This building of a bower-like structure for 
a play ground, or even assembly-ball, is 
practiced by another cunning artificer of 
great beauty, called tho satin bower bird,— 
Ptilonorhynchvs holoscricevs. Its chamber 
is usually placed beneath tho shade of some 
overhanging tree in the most retired recess¬ 
es of the forest. 
A Mr. Strange, who kept a pair in his avi¬ 
ary, (they unfortunately died on their pas¬ 
sage round Capo Horn, on their way to the 
late Earl of Derby,) where they neither bred 
nor built nest, observed that they occupied 
themselvos constantly for two months con¬ 
structing bowers. The malo is tho princi¬ 
pal workman ; and our informant adds, says 
the reviewer, “they aro built for the express 
purpose of courting the female in.”— JYo. 
Brit. Review. 
SEA MONSIER. 
The sloop Escort, of Edgartown, Captain 
Cleveland, arrived hero this morning, says 
tho New Bedford Standard of tho 7th, with 
a specimen of the fish genus, which we con¬ 
sider to be a great curiosity. The fish is 
of tho whalo species, generally known by 
whalemen as a right whale “Killer.” It 
was caught on Monday afternoon, off the 
south side of the Vineyard, by a sword-fish¬ 
ing party. Its length is 15 feet, its thick¬ 
ness four foot, and its weight about 3.000 
pounds. It lias been visited by large num 
bers, who have expressed great curiosity at 
its mammoth proportions. Some waggish, 
quizzical individuals insinuato that it is tho 
samo monster Captain Seabury was in pur¬ 
suit of, when last reported in the New York 
Tribune. If it is not tho far-famed sea-ser¬ 
pent, which is annually seen off Nahant 
during tho watering seasons, it is a “distant 
connection of the family,” at least. The 
creature has a set of teeth, which for regu¬ 
larity and whiteness would excite the envy 
of our city belles, and causo a dentist to fall 
into raptures. In fact, this is a “ fish as is 
a fish,” and there is no fish story about it. 
A Musical Mouse. —Tho Buffalo Com¬ 
mercial relates a curious fact in Natural 
History, lately developed at the American 
Hotel in that city. A family, having rooms 
in that hotel, lately loft town for a few 
weeks. On their return, they found that a 
mouse was in tho habit of constantly visit¬ 
ing the cage of a canary bird which had re¬ 
mained in tho room during their absence, 
having taken the opportunity of forming 
the acquaintance during the unusual still¬ 
ness of the apartment. To the surpriso of 
tho family it was found that the mouse had 
been taking lessons in singing of its musical 
friend, and would constantly give forth notes 
in exact imitation of the canary’s tone, but 
low and sweet. Tho little creature now 
visits the cage nightly, eats of the seed, and 
endeavors by its singing to excite the atten¬ 
tion and call forth the notes of the bird. 
A Rat Story. —A Scottish Journal tells 
tho following —“ A friend of ours lately 
received a package, containing a few bottles 
of salad of tho most savory kind. A few 
days after, bo found to his surprise, that a 
small opening bad been made in tho bungs 
of tho bottles, and a portion of tho contents 
of the latter extracted from each. None of 
the holes mado were largo enough to admit 
tho bead of either a rat or a mouse. De¬ 
termined to ascertain who tho delinquents 
wero, ho secreted himself one night, in tho 
corner of tho room, and soon a fine glossy 
rat mado his appearance, approached tho 
bottles, inserted his tail, drow it out gently, 
cleaned that member with his mouth, and 
repeated the process, ‘ over and over again.’ ” 
The European Goldfinch (Fringilla car- 
duelis,) is tho most beautiful bird which in¬ 
habits Europe, and is also one of the most 
docile and harmonious. It is of a gcntlo 
nature; soon becomes reconciled to tho loss 
of freedom; and, as few birds aro moro in¬ 
telligent and obedient, it may be taught a 
variety of entertaining tricks. When con¬ 
fined, it delights to view itself in a mirror. 
From its fondness for thistle seods, it is 
sometimes called the thistlefinch. Tho fe¬ 
male builds an admirably constructed and 
warm nest, generally in fruit trees, and lays 
five eggs.— JYaturalist’s Library. 
Many a man has lost being a man by split¬ 
ting into two middling ones. 
JlmMng for tjjr Noting. 
SAVING AND SPENDING. 
“ Save while you are young, to spend 
when you are old,” is ono of the maxims of 
Stephen Allen’s Pocket-Piece. Bet why 
should one deny himself in his youth, seeing 
that is the only season of which he is sure ? 
The future is all uncertain. The chances 
seem to be daily increasing that enstead of 
moving down tho valley of ago with calm 
and quiot tread, he will be long before en¬ 
tering that valley, the subject of a Coroner’s 
inquest. Why not eat and drink, buy books, 
attend concerts, travel while the salary lasts, 
and trust to Providence for the future ? 
Because Providence lias advertised all men 
not to trust you on his account, until by 
industry and economy you have mado a 
deposit. 
The habit of saving is itself desirable.— 
Though the youth, with clear vision, should 
be able to descry his final stopping-place in 
the long vista of coming times, and his in¬ 
come were sufficient to supply all his needs 
without saving, vet would frugality be a 
virtue. It would lossen tho number of his 
wants, without decreasing tho means of his 
rational enjoyment, or ci ippling his benevo¬ 
lence. When necessity sends out his tax- 
gatherers. pride and appetite sond out 
theirs. They call tho same day, and theso 
latter present warrants, admirably forged, 
from the same authority. It is a virtue to 
detect and dismiss them empty-handed, for 
the sake of the poor, who must submit in¬ 
voluntarily to the imposition of prido and 
appetite, if tho rich do so willingly. Fru¬ 
gality saves from wasto tho raw material, 
susceptible of being manufactured into in¬ 
calculable comforts for the noedy. 
But as no eye is gifted to penetrate that 
vista, its contingencies furnish another rea¬ 
son why yout h should be saving of its means, 
whether they be abundant or scanty. Now, 
the muscles are strong, and relish labor.— 
Tho bodily strength is yet increasing. The 
mind is composed and ready to apply itself 
to any task. Tho incumbrances are few.— 
But, with the increase of years, many para¬ 
sites grow upon tho ono tree, and draw 
their support through its roots. Though 
the income is largo, the number to he fed, 
and clothed, and pleased is larger too. And 
with still more years, the vigor of body, the 
elasticity of limb, tho mental energy gradu¬ 
ally fail. Age grasps tho staff for its own 
support with ono hand, and little help can 
tho feeble one that is unoccupied afl’ord to 
the clinging number of its dependants. 
In the voyage of life there are a groat 
many sand-bars that shoot out into tho sea 
between tho ports of our departure and 
destination. If we run down bofore tho 
wind at first, wo shall have to shift our 
course as we near thoso shoals, and spend 
many a tedious day in boating around them 
and perhaps ho obliged to the last, to work 
up wearily against wind and tide. It is 
wiser to haul close the main-coast—not so 
close as to strike the hidden rocks of dis¬ 
honesty, or to fall into tho eddies of penuri¬ 
ousness or avarice—but still to lie sparing 
of our good breeze, and climb up till wo can 
lay our course around all tho sand-bars, as 
well as jutting headlands, and then, unless 
there is a change of wind which wo cannot 
control, or a calm that tho best sailors can¬ 
not avoid, wo may put up tho helm, square 
away, and run down before the wind into a 
snug harbor.— JV. Y. Times. 
TO KEEP YOUNG. 
There is no surer destroyor of youth, 
privileges, powers, and delights. — than 
yielding the spirit to the empire of ill-tem¬ 
per and selfishness. Wo should all ho cau¬ 
tious, as we advance in life, of allowing oc¬ 
cassional sorrowful experience to overshad¬ 
ow our perception of tho preponderance of 
good. Faith in good is at once its own 
rectitude and reward. To believe good, and 
to do good, truly and trustfully, is tho 
healthiest of humanity’s conditions. To 
take events cheerfully, and promote the 
happiness of others is the way toensuro the 
enduring spring of existence. Content and 
kindliness are the soft vernal showers and 
fostering sunny warmth that keep a man’s 
nature and being fresh and green. “ Lord 
keep my existence fresh and green,” would 
he no less wise a prayor than the ono so 
beautifully recorded respecting a man’s 
memory. If we would loavo a gracious 
memory behind us, thero is no better way 
to secure it, than by living graciously. A 
cheerful and benign temper, that buds forth 
pleasant blossoms, and bears sweet fruit, for 
those who live within its influence, is sure to 
produco an undying growth of green re¬ 
membrances that shall flourish immortally 
after tho present stock is decayed and gone. 
— Mrs. Coivden Clarke. 
Readers. —Readers havo been divided in¬ 
to four classes. The first may bo compar¬ 
ed to an hour glass, their reading being as 
tho sand—it runs in and runs out, and leaves 
not a vestigo behind. A second class resem¬ 
ble a sponge, which imbibes everything and 
returns it nearly in tho samo state, only a 
little dirtier. A third class may bo likened 
to a jelly-bag, which allows all that is puro 
to pass away, and retains tho refuse and the 
dregs. Tho fourth class are like tho slave 
in the diamond mines at Golconda, who, 
casting aside all that is worthless, preserves 
only tho puro gem. 
Self-Education. —Wo all of us have two 
educations, one of which we recoivo from 
others ; another, and the most valuablo. we 
givo ourselves. It is this last which fixes 
our grade in society, and our actual value 
in life. All tho professors and teachers in 
tho world would not make you a wise and 
good man without your own co-operation; 
and if such you are determined to be, tho 
want of them will not prevent it. 
HYMN TO THE DEITY. 
BY 9. T. COLERIDOE. 
My Maker 1 of thy power the trace 
In every creature's form and face 
The >vond - ring soul surveys I 
Thy wisdom, infinite above 
Seraphic thought, a Father’s love 
As infinite displays 1 
From all that meet our eye or ear, 
There falls a genial, holy fear, 
"Which, like the heavy dew of morn, 
Refreshes while it bows the heart forlorn I 
Great God 1 thy works how wondrous fair 1 
Yet sinful man didst thou declare 
The whole earth's voice and mind! 
Lord, ev'n as Thou all-present art, 
O may we still with heedful heart 
Thy presence know and give I 
Then come what will, of weal or woe, 
Joy’s bosom-spring shall steady flow; 
For though ’tis heaven Thyself to see, 
■Where but Thy shadow fall, grief cannot be! 
GOD’S GOODNESS IN NATURE. 
God made tho present earth as tho homo 
of man ; but had ho meant it as a mere lodg¬ 
ing, a world loss beautiful would have serv¬ 
ed tho purpose. There was no need for tho 
carpet of verdure, or the ceiling of blue — 
no need for the mountains and cataracts and 
forests—no need for tho rainbow, no need 
foi the showers, no need for the flowers.— 
A big round island, half of it arable, and half 
of it pasture, with a clump of trees in ono 
corner, and a magazine of fuel in another, 
might havo held and fed ten millions of 
people, and a hundred islands all made on 
the same pattern, big and round, might have 
hold and fed the population of the globe.— 
But man is something more than "tho ani¬ 
mal which wants lodging and food. He 
has a spiritual nature, full of keen percep¬ 
tions and deep sympathies. He has an eye 
for the sublime and tho beautiful, and his 
kind Creator lias provided man’s abode with 
affluent materials for these nobler tastos.— 
He has built Mount Blanc, and molten tho 
lakes in which its shadow sleeps. He has 
intoned Niagara’s thunder, and lias breathed \ 
the zephyr which sweeps its spray. He lias 
shagged the steeps with its cedars, and 
spread the meadow with its king-cups and 
daisies. He has mado it a world of fra¬ 
grance and music—a world of brightness 
and symmetry—a world where the grand 
and the graceful, tho awful and tho lovely, 
rejoice together. In fashioning the homo 
of man, t lie Creator had an eye to some¬ 
thing more than convenience, and built not 
a barrack, hut a palace—not a workshop, 
but an Alhambra ; something which should 
not only bo very comfortable, but very 
splendid and very fair. Something which 
should inspire the soul of its inhabitant, 
and even draw forth the “ very good ” of 
complacent Deity. 
BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. 
A man without some sort of religion is at 
best a poor reprobate, the foot-ball of desti 
ny, with no tie linking him to infinity and 
to tho wondrous eternity that is within him ; 
but a woman without it is even worse—a 
flame without heat, a rainbow without color, 
a flower without perfume. 
A man may, in somo sort, tie his frail 
hopes and honors with a weak, shifting 
ground- tackle to his business of the world ; 
but a woman without that anchor which 
they call faith, is a driit and a wreck. A 
man may clumsily continue a kind of re¬ 
sponsibility or motive, hut can find no basis 
in any other system of right action than 
that of spiritual faith. A man may craze 
his thoughts and his brain to thoughtfulness 
in such poor harborage as fame and reputa¬ 
tion may stretch and lay before him ! but a 
woman—where can she put her hopo in 
storms, if not in heaven. 
And that sweet trustfulness, that abiding 
love, that endearing hope, mellowing every 
scene of life, lighting them with pleasant ra¬ 
diance, when the world’s cold storms break 
like an army with smoking cannon, what 
can bestow it all hut a holy soul-tie to what 
j is stronger than an army with cannon ? 
j Who that has enjoyed tho love of a God 
loving mother, hut will echo tho thought 
J with energy, and hallow it with a tear. 
AN AFFECTIONATE SPIRIT.- 
We sometimes meet with men who seem 
to think that any indulgence in an afi’oe- 
tionato feeling is weakness. They will re¬ 
turn from a journey and greet their families 
with a distant dignity, and inovo among 
their children with the cold and lofty splen¬ 
dor of an iceberg, surrounded by its broken 
fragments. There is hardly a moro un¬ 
natural sight on earth, than any one of theso 
families without a heart. A father had bet¬ 
ter extinguish his hoy’s eyes than to take 
away his heart. Who that has experienced 
tho joys of friendship, and knows the worth 
of sympathy and affection, would not rather 
lose all that is beautiful in nature’s scenery 
than to he robbed of tho hidden treasures 
of his heart ? Who would not rather fol¬ 
low his wife to the grave than to entomb his 
parental affection ? Cherish then your 
heart’s best affection. Indulge in the warm 
and gushing emotions of filial, parental and 
fraternal love. Think it not a weakness.— 
God is love ; love everybody and every thing 
that is lovely. Teach your children to love ; 
to love the roso, the robin; to love their 
parents; to love their God. Let it bo tho 
studied object of their domestic culture to 
give them warm hearts, ardent affections. — 
Bind your wholo family together by these 
strong cords. You cannot make them too 
strong. Roligion is love— Ioyo to God— 
love to all men. 
Fearlessly do what you believe to be right. 
