and not to the pagan shrine of Fate, it is one that can be easily and satisfactorily answered. Let me, then, adduce a few data for the solution of this important problem. In proposing the question, Will there be an opening for me? let me take it for granted, that you do not expect such an opening from any impulsive humor of Providence, or any amendment or repeal of its present laws or provisions. Then, you would ask, what provisions there are already enacted to develope the faculties of your mind, increase your capacity of usefulness, and insure a rich and unfailing reward to a virtuous application and trustful industry? If embodied in this inquiry, the question is one that gives me great pleasure to

answer.

Let me remind you, what God has done for every stalk of wheat, for every blade of grass or corn; and then leave it to your own reflection to decide, whether he has done less for the devel

opement of the human mind, for which all things seen or temporal on this

earth were made.

Just look over into a field of grain in summer, and contemplate a single stalk of corn; and consider what Providence has done for that, not accidentally, but specifically. That kernel of corn, when it was first committed to the ground, needed for its expansion, a thousand specific influences, not one of which could be brought to bear upon it, without the creation and economy of the whole solar system. Were that stalk of corn the only one to be produced on this planet, it would require, for its per/fection, all the physical laws and machinery of the system, which bring in the seasons with all their soft alternations of temperature, light, and shade.

Now, long before man was made, all these physical provisions for the welfare of that stalk of corn, were created. No farmer ever sows or plants his field with any doubt in his mind with regard to

the certainty of these provisions. But he knows that it might rain and shine upon his land forever, and all be in vain unless he complied with the irrepealable requisition of Providence, and planted and cultured that stalk of corn. His labor is just as essential as the rain and dew, light and heat. If he sees fit to labor on that stalk of corn, Providence will work with him in fair copartnership; and not only insure, but proportion his reward according to his labor.

In the words of another, "Nothing is more deceptive or pernicious than the idea which is entertained by some that the rich obtain their wealth without exertion; merely by "good luck." There is no sure way of getting money but by industry; no way of keeping it so as to grow rich, but by economy. The foundations of great fortunes are to be traced to small beginnings, small profits, and frugal expenditures. The man who desires to grow rich must never

wait to acquire large sums before he begins to save. The economy of small expenses lays the corner-stone of wealth. It is the small dribbles that waste the substance and keep men poor, if they are not careful to restrain their outgoThe philosopher's stone is no

ings. fiction.

He who labors with industry, and lives with economy, will find it, at the bottom of the crucible of life, to reward his toil and compensate him for his virtue. It was a favorite theme with Girard that he commenced life with a sixpence; and that man's best capital was industry. He died worth 10,000,000 !"

In a word, he that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets, necessary expenses excepted, will certainly become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavors, does not, in his wise providence, otherwise determines,

STABILITY OF PURPOSE.

How often do we discover people of the character generally denominated "fickle-minded." They are seldom satisfied with their present condition or employment preferring almost any other situation to the one they happen to occupy, and any other business to that in which they are engaged. Their minds

are usually filled with some new and wonderful project, or employed in unfolding some magnificent discovery, which they believe will astonish the world, and bring inexhaustible wealth into their possession. Such people are generally industrious-not, however, in that steady application to useful business which will in time yield a certain reward, but in building stupendous and beautiful castles in the air, which