MOO&E’S OTEAL KEW-YORKER. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. 
I have been pleased in noticing wlmt you 
have had to sav on the above topic, and more 
especially, with the sensible comments you 
bestow on the absurd suggestions of the Com¬ 
missioner or Agriculture at Washington. 
To my mind, there is no question connected 
with education, or with the increase and diffu¬ 
sion of knowledge, more important to our peo¬ 
ple than how properly to establish and carry 
out a system of education which may be fitly 
named a School of Industry. 
Jn all systems of education there are, or 
should always be, two objects kept in view, 
viz:—First, to develop the powers of the 
mind in all that pertains to the acquisition of 
knowledge and the discovery of truth; and, 
second, t he furnishing the mind with that which 
may be useful to it in a general or sped lie direc¬ 
tion. From tlio Infant .School 10 the University, 
our land abounds with institutions offering in¬ 
struction in all departments of knowledge, and 
ostensibly basing their various systems on the 
two principles or objects wo have just briefly 
defined. We have not space hero to diseuss the 
question how far. these succeed in their aims, 
and what are the w eak points of the culture 
they bestow. Hut we shall do well to look for 
a moment at some of the principles which gov¬ 
ern mind in its rational development: for mind, 
developed in the order of its faculties, and the 
efficiency of each, must observe laws of growth 
and assimilation as fixed and important as those 
which govern the growth of organic, material 
beings. 
And there is even a likeness between the two 
forms of development. Place at the service of 
a plant or au animal whatever of material or of 
condition you know to be essential to its growth 
and perfectibility, and you can go no further; 
or, if you crowd the materials of growth and 
life ou the functions to which they belong, be¬ 
yond the, power of assimilation which these 
functions possess, you retard the growth you 
would hasten, you destroy the life you would 
support. Only as you develop and strengthen 
the power of the vital principle, can you with 
reason call upon it to till out and perfect the 
organism it controls. Like the plant or the 
animal, the tniud grows with what it feeds 
upon, hut the power of assimilation must be 
active and sufficient lor the work, or of what 
use are the materials we place before it—the 
opportunities that wait upon It day by day? 
Nature has furnished inexhaustible stores of 
marble lit for the sculptor’s hand, but only now 
and then tbu mind arrives that can direct the 
chisel to trace out lines of immortal grace and 
beauty, and give thought and passion a form— 
an expression so true that the world admires 
forever! 
Apples had fallen from their trees in the sight 
of men since the world was made, yet how many 
thousand generations passed away before the 
mind arrived that could see the force that holds 
the worlds iu theirorbits ? The philosopher and 
the peasant look out on the same universe, and 
through much the same eyes, but what appeals 
to one a confused picture of grass, weeds and 
rocks, earth, sky and water, is to the other a 
divine cosmos, lull of beauty and wisdom—the 
autograph of the Creator, forever changing and 
forever renewed. 
The first, and most important step in educa¬ 
tion is, (if tlio expression may be permitted,) to 
learn how to learn. Clearness and acuteness of 
mental vision, ready command of the facilities 
as instruments of research, with power of ap¬ 
plication, and ability to rightly weigh and con¬ 
sider at the same time all that comes within the 
scope of our knowledge and experience,—these 
qualities are the natural endowment of but few; 
tho majority Of mankind acquire strength and 
activity of Intellect only through long, patient 
exercise, as tlio artizan becomes familiar with 
his tools. 
Look for a moment at the curriculum of 
studies adopted by the various colleges in our 
country. Some, at least, of these studies are 
comparatively useless to tlio student, unless he 
perfects himself in them; and to do this, as take 
the Greek language for instance, would require 
almost the measure of an ordinary lifetime. 
Not one student in a hundred enters upon such 
a course but is bewildered on its threshold by 
the multiplicity of studies, and the amount of 
work to tie done in the time allotted to it. As 
a matter of course, it generally happens the 
mind fails to take hold of anything thoroughly, 
and what lias been appropriately termed by a 
distinguished writer on education the “ pouring 
in process,” is resorted to hv the teacher, and it 
is, iu fact, alt that can be done. 
And here at this point in our view is the fun¬ 
damental error of the process of education. 
The mind sinks from the level of independent 
thought, based on the truths of philosophy, and 
the facts of its own consciousness, until it be¬ 
comes a mere passive recipient, with no desire, 
and but little of ability, to pass beyond the 
boundaries of its educational system. This was 
the effect sought to be produced several centu¬ 
ries ago by the sholastlc teachers of that period. 
Educational systems were framed with the ex¬ 
press object of perpetuating particular creeds 
and dogmas, secular and religious; education 
was almost wholly a “ pouring in process,” and 
the nunc passive and dependent the recipient 
Hie better. Even now wo see the remains of 
this same scholasticism In the arrangement of 
our collegiate courses, and the results we should 
i-oek to obviate in our educational system spring 
moiv or less directly from it. 
And now, O patient reader, have we wan¬ 
dered from the Industrial School and the edu¬ 
cational wants of the farmer and the mechanic, 
which wo set out to speak of and deline? "Wc 
are not gone astray very far in strange paths, 
we trust, for wc have only been attempting to 
illustrate and enforce what we regard as first 
and most, important in any educational system. 
More especially is it important and necessary in 
a system so comparatively limited in scope and 
time of acquisition as an Industrial School must 
bo. For error anil empiricism are much more 
likely to occur, and much less likely to be coun¬ 
teracted where the exercise of the mind is eon- 
fined to a survey of special departments of 
knowledge,, in their narrow and absolute de¬ 
tails. 
What is the object of the education to be im¬ 
parted at au Industrial School ? That depends 
on tho vocation the student intends to occupy. 
Where time is so limited, those branches of 
study should bo attended to that apply most 
directly to the industrial pursuits to be followed - . 
A farmer docs not require to know as much of 
mathematics as a meohanic, and there are many 
scientific studies of more importance to both 
than the languages, only we would insist on a 
good, thorough introduction to the Latin, such 
as may be gained at any preparatory school. 
We have no space to urge the advontages to be 
gained by a knowledge of this language, but 
they will suggest themselves to every educated 
mind. 
But in every Industrial School wc would have 
a course of Philosophy taught by lectures and 
suitable text-books. Not the dry, threadbare, 
and contradictory systems of logic and meta¬ 
physics that have distracted the minds of men 
through all time, but. Philosophy, according to 
Us highest and purest definition,—a word formed 
by the Greeks to express the lorn of wisdom,— 
that exercise of the reason which, so to speak, 
relates man most nearly to the Divine Intelli¬ 
gence itself, for it is the prime instrument of all 
research, of all knowledge, of ourselves, and of 
all cause and effect in nature,—does it not prop¬ 
erly direct the mind in every achievement that 
can be undertaken? It is our conviction that 
the study of Philosophy, properly conducted, 
should begin as well as end every system of 
education. 
Assuming that a proper course of study has 
been settled upon, then, for the success of such 
schools. the greatest ueed is teachers of the 
right stamp,—teachers who thoroughly compre¬ 
hend the needs of the farmer and artisan of 
to-day, who know how to combine theory and 
practice, and who, while they communicate to 
their pupils the treasured results of Art and 
Science, yet invite them to prepare themselves 
for investigation, and to explore the boundless 
paths of knowledge with the light of truth and 
unprejudiced philosophic reason for their guide. 
It is not for lack ot facts, or instrumentalities 
and opportunities of knowledge offered, that 
the farmer of to-day is so much in ueed of the 
knowledge to bo taught in the Industrial School. 
But the working classes need to learn how to 
think and reason correctly, without bigotry or 
prejudice,—pusliiug their inquiries in all direc¬ 
tions, and accepting truth wherever it is to be 
found. 
Give a man but the rudiments of a liberal 
education, only let him thoroughly understand 
these rudiments, and to this join the ability to 
think correctly, that is, the habit of unpreju¬ 
diced, philosophic reasoning, and you have laid 
t,ho foundation of all knowledge; for experience 
and observation will bring to such au one true 
knowledge every hour. And in his leisure mo¬ 
ments he may perfect himself, one at a time, in 
such branches as scorn most desirable to him, 
and his knowledge of them will be more easily 
acquired and more profound than he could have 
gained in the hurried treadmill of the College. 
iwiirfic, kt. 
Ana Arbor, Mich., 18G1. 
Luii Wooimuvr. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
A PROBLEM FOR TEACHERS. 
A, speaks the truth three times in four; B, 
four times in five; and C, six times in seven. 
AY hut is the probability of an event which A ami 
B assort, and C denies? 
The above question is found in Park's Phi¬ 
losophy of Arithmetic, page 2.‘)7, with answer 
140-14a. 
I have submitted it to the test of several 
teachers, and none can obtain the above .answer. 
Will you publish in the Rural, and request a 
solution? D. Brown. 
Grafton, III, 1364. 
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ERRORS IN SPEAKING. 
Teachers will find the correction of the fol¬ 
lowing sentences, with the reason for the same 
a good exercise for their pupils: 
I had rayier wait. 
I doubt not but I shall be able. 
Ho was too young to have felt his loss. 
1 seldom or cwr see him now. 
I expected to have, found him. 
I intended to hare visited him. 
I hoped you icould hove come. 
He can write better than me. 
A child of four years old. 
The negligence of this leaves us exposed. 
Be that as it will. 
All over tho country. 
Provisions were plenty. 
I propose to visit them. 
L leave town in tho latter end of July. 
I should have much liked to have seen him. 
lie plunged down into tho water. 
Wo must do this last of all. 
Where is it? says I to him. 
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The following specimen of letter-writing is 
given in an article on language, in Good IFords. 
The note was received after a tithe dinner in 
Devonshire:—“ Mr. T. presents his compliments 
to Mr. IL., and I have got a hat that is not his, 
and if he have got a hat that is not yours, no 
doubt they are the expectant ones.” 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
“PERPETUAL MOTION.” 
Eds. Rural: —In a late issue, under the 
heading of the “Useful, Scientific, &c,fi you 
publish a brief description of a “ Vermont 
Yankee’s Perpetual Motion.” You should have 
told your readers why it is not a Perpetual Mo¬ 
tion. A body can not produce motion by the 
force of gravity without falling, and falling 
through any distance can not by any possibility 
furnish more power than will be required to 
raise it again through the same distance. 
Fanners in this age have much to do with 
machinery and should dearly understand ele¬ 
mentary mechanical principles; they should 
bear constantly in ndml that there can be no 
such thing as “gaining power,'’ which would 
constitute a perpetual motion, but that power in 
one machine, compared with another, may be 
economized by a better application of mechani¬ 
cal principles, and by any arrangement requiring 
a less expenditure in overcoming friction. 
James Weed. 
Muscatine, Iowa, lSGt. 
PARAGRAPHS NEW AND USEFUL 
Sleeping Cars ,—A patent has been granted 
on an invention by which the seats of the car 
can be converted into a continuous couch: the 
second tier of couches being a platform which 
can 1)0 lifted to the roof when not in use. 
Aito Hydrate of Lime. —Dr. John Davy 
has published some experiments ou the slaking 
of quick lime which seem to warrant the con¬ 
clusion that water is capable of uniting feebly 
with less lime than is required to form a hydrate 
of one to one, the weaker compound being prob¬ 
ably two of lime to one of water. 
A Cane Stripper.—A patent has been issued 
an Ohioan for a cane 6tripper which consists in 
stripping the leaves from the stalks of sorghum 
by compressing firmly a quantity of canes into 
a large bundle, and pulling one stalk after the 
other out of tho bundle, by this act stripping 
the stalks of their leaves. It is claimed that it 
saves labor. We hope it is something useful. 
Patent IFoof Flannel .—A Pennsylvanian has 
secured a patent for a kind of flannel in which 
the hard twisted yarn is preseuted in one sur¬ 
face for wear, and a softer yarn on the other 
surface for warmth. It is made by- using a 
harder or more twisted yarn for warp, and a 
softer or less twisted yarn for the weft, and 
weaving it in such a manner as to throw the 
greater portion of the warp ou one side, and the 
greater portion of the weft on the other. 
. Goodyear's Rubber Patents .— A correspond¬ 
ent of the Scientific American writes:— •• I am 
credibly informed that the rubber monopoly 
company have agent* 1 out in all directions, ap¬ 
parently very earnest in securing signatures 
to remonstrances against the renewal of the 
Goodyear patents, which petitions they pro-* 
pose to retain quietly in their possession, thereby 
preventing the popular indignation reaching the 
ears of the authorities who are to decide the 
case.” The editor of the above paper adds:— 
“ Wo arc somewhat-suspicious that this system 
of tactics is now being carried on, though we 
have no personal knowledge on this point,” and 
proceeds to cite facts to prove that this is no new 
way of disarming opponents to a re-issue. It 
will be well for all interested to make a note of 
this fact. 
lime to Prevent IF t Feet .—A writer in the 
Mechanics? Magazine who says ho has bad 
three pairs of boots last him six years and 
thinks he will not require auy more for six 
years to come, tells how he treats them:—“ I put 
a pound each of tallow and resin in a pot on the 
fire; when melted and mixed apply it hot to the 
boot wit h a painter's brush until neither the sole 
nor upper will soak any more. If it is desired 
that tho boots should immediately take a polish, 
dissolve an ounce of wax in a teaspoonful of 
turpentine and lampblack. A day or two after 
tho boots have been treated with the resin and 
tallow, rub over them this wax aud turpentine, 
but not before the tire. Thus the exterior will 
have a coat of wax alone, and shine like a mir¬ 
ror. Tallow and grease become rancid, and rot 
tlie stitching or leather: but the resin gives it 
an antiseptic quality which preserves the whole. 
Effect of Air on Weighing Grain. — Grain 
carriers between the ports of Lake Michigan 
aud those of Lake Ontario are so frequently 
HOW TASTES DIFFER. « 
- C 
Reamib relates, ou the authority of M. de la 1 
Hire, that a young French lady could never resist : 
the temptation of eating a spider whenever she 
met with one in her walks. They are said to 
taste like nuts, at least this was the opinion of 
the celebrated Marla Scburman, who not only i 
eat them, but justified her taste by saying that i 
she was born under Scorpio, Latrille informs ■ 
us that the astronomer, Laianne, was equally i 
fond of tills offensive morsel. Man is truly an ' 
omniverous animal; for there is nothing which 
is disgusting to one nation that is not the choice 
food of another. Flesh, fish, fowl, insects, even 
tlie gigantic centipedes of Brazil, many of them 
a foot and a half iu length, and half au inch 
broad, were seen by Humboldt to be dragged out 
of their holes and crunched alive by the chil¬ 
dren. 
Serpents of all sorts have been consumed as 
food, and the host of the celebrated inn at Ten- 
raciui frequently accosts his guests as politely 
••requesting to know if they prefer the eel of the 
hedge or the eel of the ditch.” To evince this 
attachment to their favorite pursuit, most natu¬ 
ralists seem to consider it indispensable to taste 
and recommend some insect or other. Danvin 
assures us that the catcrpiller of the hawmoth is 
delicious; Kirby and Spencer think the ant good 
eating, and push their entomological zeal so far 
as to distinguish between them the flavor 
of the abdomen and the thorax; and Reamir 
recommends the caterpillar of the plastic gram¬ 
ma as a delicious dish. 
How much we eat, and upon how much we 
might live, are curious matters of speculation, 
and in an article on the subject in an English 
Review', we find the following suggestive facts: 
The accounts which travelers give of the 
quantity of food which can be consumed are 
extraordinary. Sir John Ross estimates that 
an Esquimaux will eat perhaps twenty pounds 
of flesh and oil daily. Compare this with Val¬ 
entin’s six pounds, or with Canaro’s twelve 
ounces of solids and fourteen ounces of wine. 
Captain Parry tried, as a matter of curiosity, 
how much an Esquimaux lad, who was scarcely 
full grown, would consume, if left to himself, 
weighed the following articles before being 
given. lie was twenty hours getting through 
them, aud certainly did not consider the quantity 
extraordinary:—Sea-horse flesh, hard froze, four 
pounds four ounces; do. do. boiled, four pounds 
four ounces; bread and bread dust, one pound 
and twelve ounces. To this must be ;ulded one 
and a quarter pints of rich gravy-soup, three 
wine glasses of raw spirits, one tumblerful of 
strong grog, one gallon of water. 
Captain Cochrane, in Ms “Journey through 
Russia and Siberian Tartar}',” relates that the 
Admiral Sariteheff was informed that one of 
the Yakutis ate, in four and twenty hours, the 
hind quarters of a large ox, twenty pounds of 
fat, aud a proportionate quantity of melted 
butter lor bis driuk. To test the truth of the 
statement, the Admiral gave him a thick por¬ 
ridge of rice, boiled down with three pounds 
of butter, weighing together twenty-eight 
pounds, and although the glutton had already 
breakfasted, he sat down to it with great 
eagerness and consumed the whole without stir- 
ing from the spot. Captain C ochrane also states 
that he has seen three Yakutia devour a reindeer 
at a meal, and a calf weighing about two hun¬ 
dred pounds is not too much for a meal for live 
of those gluttons. 
Some caterpillars daily eat double their weight 
iu food; a cow cats forty-six pounds daily, and a 
mouse eats eight times as much, in porportion 
to its own weight, as is eaten by a man. But 
when such facts are cited, we must hear in mind 
the enormous difference in the nature of the food 
thus weighed, their relative amounts of water, 
and tho indigestible material. The same cau¬ 
tion is requisite in speaking of a man’s diet. 
TIME-RECKONING. 
In the year ioT B. C., the cepsldra, or water- 
clock, was introduced at Rome. The nature of its 
mechanism is enveloped in a historical quandary. 
A meagre description, however, of the one pre¬ 
sented by the King of Persia to Charlemagne, 
is to be found in the “Annahs Fancorum.' 1 
The authorsuvs:—“Likewise a time-piece, won¬ 
derfully constructed of brass, with mechanical 
art, in which the course of the twelve hours 
was turned towards a clepsydra, which fall 
down at the completion of the hour, aud, by 
the fall, sound a bell under them. 
About the eleventh century a monk—the Ab¬ 
bot of Hirsham—with no other design than the 
ftafling fat tin fjmiug. 
HONORING THE HOARY HEAD. , 
— 
There was to be a lecture in the town-hall 
in the village of G-. The lecturer was a 
man of reputation, and a crowd was expected. 
John Gordon was determined lie would have a 
seat. “Boys,*’ said he, to some of his young 
companions, “ r am going to have a seat at the 
lecture to-night.” 
“You may get one, but you will be turned 
out of it before the lecture begins. More than 
likely there will be women enough to fill all the 
seats,” said one. 
“ Say ladies, not women.” said another. 
“ I said women instead of ladies, because all 
the women that come are not ladies. At the 
last lecture there was an old,man] sitting in one 
of the chairs, and a woman came along and said 
to him: ‘ Will you give a lady^a seat?’ The old 
man got up and gave her his seat, but I don’t 
think he gave it to a lady.” 
“ I saw a young lady offer the old man her 
seat.” 
“That is very likely.” 
In the afternoon, John employed himself in 
making a camp-stool that could be folded up iu 
a very small compass. He had seen one in pos¬ 
session of a traveling artist, and as he possessed 
considerable mechanical ingenuity, he succeeded 
iu producing a very tolerable imitation of said 
stool. 
As the time drew near, he put it under his 
arm and went to the hall. No one could tell, 
from its appearance, what kind of a bundle he 
had under his arm. His plan was to remain 
standing till all the ladies had arrived and were 
seated, and the lecture began. Then he in¬ 
tended to unfold his stool and have a comfort¬ 
able seat. 
The seats were at length filled. Here and 
there a gentleman had a seat, being surrounded 
and defended in the possession of it by female 
friends. John took his seat in the little space 
before the desk, creating a smile by the gravity 
with which he converted a bundle into what 
was a good substitute for a chair. 
He had comfortably settled himself, when he 
saw an aged man, with white locks, standing in 
the aisle, leaning on his cane. It was an old 
man who seldom came out at night, but the 
fame of the lecturer hail brought him out. 
John remembered the command to honor the 
hoary head. His inclinations and his duty coin¬ 
cided. He arose and went to the old man, led 
him forward, and gave him his seat. The act 
was greeted by a warm round of applause by 
the audience. John did not have a seat during 
the lecture, but he felt better than if he had.— 
Sunday School Times. 
JEM RADFORD’S THORN. 
“Only think of Jem Radford, poor fellow! 
When will they bury him?” 
They're gone now to take Mm out of the 
hospital. I suppose they’ll bury him to-mor¬ 
row.” 
These words passed between two women 
who had met in the village as they went for 
water. 
“ And to think of its coming from such a little 
thing!” said one. 
“Ay; he didn't know what the thorn was 
going to do for him.” 
Jem Radford had got a large thorn into Ms 
foot. He took no notice of the pain, and al¬ 
lowed it to remain iu, as he couldn’t get it out 
easily. It festered; aud while one friend ad¬ 
vised him to go to the doctor, another told him 
of some poultice for it. Jem was strong, and 
had never known a day's illness. “’It’s only a 
thorn,” he said, and he uoither poulticed it nor 
went to the doctor. 
The swelling and inflammation -went, all up the 
leg, and he thought he must go to the doctor, for 
he got no sleep night or day for pain. 
The doctor shook his head. He said the long 
neglect had been mischievous: he w'ould have 
Mm to go into the hospital. 
He went; and m a short time they were 
obliged to take off his leg. He sank under the 
operation, and died, at the age of twenty-three! 
His death made a great impression in the vil¬ 
lage, and “poor Jem Radford’s thorn” was often 
quoted. 
“Robert has one sad fault: he will tell a lie 
sometimes. But what of that?” “Remember 
Jem Radford’s little thorn.” 
“Jose Grant is a good fellow, except when he 
compelled to make up •* shortage ” at the lower heguilement of his tendium, constructed a time- drinks a little; hut that isn’t ofteli." “ Ay, but 
end of the route, that they have given the grain 
scales and weighers of the upper ports hard 
names. But a correspondent of the Scientific 
American assigns another reason for tliis differ¬ 
ence:— “It is the difference of barometic alti¬ 
tude of the points of shipping and discharge. 
There is uot much difference between Chicago 
and Buffalo—82 feet only, but between Lake 
Michigan ports and those of Lake Ontario, the 
difference of altitude is 325 feet. In figuring 
tho difference of buoyancy of the atmosphere at 
these two levels, and its effect on a cargo of 
grain of Is.OffO bushels, it is found that the dif¬ 
ference is ffl bushels, after allowing one-third to 
till the interstices between the kernels, so that a 
cargo shall represent a solid of two-thirds its bulk. 
The difference of altitude between Oswego 
and New York is 202 feet, and between Buffalo 
and New York it is flofi feet, so there must be 
still another deficiency in reaching tide water. 
Nine and a half bushels of wheat at $2 or 
thereabouts per bushel, is quite too much to 
pay for the interference of the atmosphere, 
which refuses to have that much weighed and 
accredited. “ A pound is a pound, Ac.,” hardly 
holds good in such a case, and when a transac¬ 
tion of weighing to and from becomes large, as 
in these cases, it is sufficient to be felt sensibly.” 
teller somewhat similar to our clocks, it materi¬ 
ally differing from the sun-dial and the water- 
clock. The ingenious machine not only meas¬ 
ured the time, but at certain intervals produced 
a peculiar sound, for the purpose of admonish¬ 
ing the sacristan to matins and vespers. Little 
did the ecclesiastic suppose that his exertions to 
relieve the lassitude of the hours had given to 
the world an invention, than which none could 
be more useful and important. Clocks, moved 
by weights, began to be used in the European 
monasteries about the same century. 
In 1282, the Sultan sent to the Emperor Fred¬ 
erick II, a most curious clock, **of wonderful 
construction,” and valued at five thousand 
ducats, “it appeared,” writes an old author, 
** to resiuble internally a celestial globe, iu which 
figures of the sun. moon and planets, formed 
with great skill, moved, being impelled by the 
weights and wheels, so that performing tlieir 
course in certain fixed intervals, they pointed 
out the hour, night and day, with infabtliblc 
certainty.” About the close of the fifteenth 
century watches were introduced. 
—-- 
The greatest fault in penetration is not in the 
not reaching the mark, but in overshooting it.— 
La Rochefoucald. 
| if he gets the habit!” “Oh, It’s only a little now 
aud then.” “ Ah, but thiuk what it may come 
to. Remember Jem Radford’s thorn.” 
Alas! for want of laying the warning to heart, 
Robert grows up a confirmed liar, and Jose 
Grant becomes a sot. 
Have we one little sin, as litte as the thorn, as 
powerful in its effects —perhaps the love of 
money, perhaps a hasty temper? Oh, let us 
tremble at what it may do for us. Don’t let us 
neglect it, saying—“It is only a little sin.” till 
it grows so great as to poison our whole soul, 
and destroys us forever, by keeping us under 
its power, without repentance or fear of God’s 
displeasure, and without fleeing to Jesus Christ 
the Saviour for pardon of our sins.— Cottager. 
A Child on Sabbath - Breaking.— One 
Sunday, as a little girl of four winters was on 
the way home from Church, with her father, 
they passed a hoy splitting wood, when the 
father said, “ Mary, do you see that boy break¬ 
ing the Sabbath ?” She made no reply, but ap¬ 
peared to be very thoughtful, as she walked 
homeward. After entering the house, her 
mother asked her what she had seen while she 
was gone, when she replied, “Oh, mother, I 
saw a boy breaking the Sabbath with a big axe!’’ 
B ow tr*-a 
