person of truth, sobriety, and weight, relates strange stories, be not too ready to believe or report them; and yet, unless he is one of your familiar acquaint ances, be not too forward to contradict him.

11. If the occasion requires you to declare your opinion, do it modestly and gently, not bluntly nor ooarsely; by this means you will avoid giving offense, or being abused for too much credulity.

QUESTIONS.-1. Why is lying a great sin against God! 2. Why is it a great offense against humanity? 3. How does it injure the liar himself? 4. Why should your words be few, especially when superiors or strangers are present? 5. How are you to silence an opponent? 6. Why should you not interrupt one when he is speak ing? 7. What must you do before you speak! 8. In conversation, what must you do in order to learn the most from each one? 9. How should you behave when in the company of light and vain persons 10. What caution in the 10th paragragh?

LESSON LXVII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. RE VENGE', to punish out of spite. 2. AD. VER SA' RY, an enemy; opponent. 3. CON QUEST, victory. 4. BAS'ER, meaner; lower. 5. WRESTLE, to try to throw down; struggle. 6. TASK ED, burdened. 7. SELD, (for seldom,) rarely. 8. FOR BORNE', indulged; borne with.

Avoid saying tast for tasked, noblust for noblest, uman for human, &c.

REVENGE OF INJURIES.

ELIZABETH CAREW.

1. The fairest action of our human life,
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,
His adversary's heart to him doth tie.
And 'tis a firmer conquest truly said,
To win the heart, than overthrow the head.

2. If we a worthy enemy do find,

To yield to worth it must be nobly done;
But, if of baser metal be his mind,

In base revenge there is no honor won.
Who would a worthy courage overthrow,
And who would wrestle with a worthless foe!

3. We say our hearts are great, and can not yield;
Because they can not yield, it proves them poor.
Great hearts are tasked beyond their power, but seld;
The weakest lion will the louder roar.

Truth's school for certain did this same allow,
High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow.

4. A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn.
To scorn to owe a duty over long;
To scorn to be for benefits forborne ;
To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong.
To scorn to bear an injury in mind;

To scorn a freeborn heart slave-like to bind.

5. But if for wrongs we needs revenge must have,
Then be our vengeance of the noblest kind;
Do we his body from our fury save,

And let our hate prevail against our mind.
What can 'gainst him a greater vengeance be,
Than make his foe more worthy far than he?

QUESTIONS.-1. What is here said to be the "fairest action of human life"? 2. What is said of contending with an unworthy foe 3. What will a noble heart scorn? 4. What sort of vengeance, if any, should we ever take.

LESSON LXVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. MAN' I FOLD, of different kinds; numerous. 2. FORE GONE', gone before. 3. FELL, cruel; inhuman. 4. DE RIDE mock; ridicule. 5. PAR DON ED, forgiven. 6. VEN' GEANCE, punish ment in return for injury. 7. RE SENT MENT, a deep sense of injury

FORGIVENESS.

1. () O God! my sins are manifold,
Against my life they cry;

And all my guilty deeds foregone,
Up to Thy temple fly.

Wilt thou release my trembling soul,

That to despair is driven?

"Forgive!" a blesséd voice replied,

“And thou shalt be forgiven.”

BISHOP HEBER.

2. My foemen, Lórd, are fierce and fell;
They spurn me in their pride;
They render evil for my good;
My patience they deride;
Arise! my King! and be the proud
In righteous ruin driven !—
"Forgive!" the awful answer came,
"As thou wouldst be forgiven !”

3. Seven times, O Lord, I've pardoned them;
Seven times they've sinned again;
They practice still to work me woe,
And triumph in my pain;

But let them dread my vengeance now,
To just resentment driven!

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Forgive!" the voice in thunder spake,
"Or never be forgiven!"

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QUESTIONS.-1. What is the object of this piece! 2. W 286ages, in the Bible, teach the same doctrine?

Why the rising inflection on Lord and King? Note I. p. 3 the falling inflection on forgive? Rule VIII. p. 31.

Why

LESSON LXIX

2.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. DEO' o RA TED, adorned; beautified. DES' TIN ED, appointed; ordained. 3. DI UR' NAL, daily. 4. PROG'E NY, offspring. 5. MIN' IS TER, serve; contribute to. 8. JU' BI LEE, great rejoicing. 7. VEG' E TA BLE, pertaining to plants. 8. EN DU ED, possessed of; having. 9. IN' CENSE, odors of spices and gums burned in religious rites. 10. DED' I CA TED, consecrated.

THE EARTH BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAN.
BRIDGEWATER TREATISES.

1. The earth was now completely furnished and decorated to receive her destined king and master. The sun, the moon, and the stars, were shedding their kindly influences upon her; she and her fellow planets had commenced their annual and diurnal revolutions; the plants and flowers, her first-born progeny, had sprung out of her bosom, and covered her with ver dure and beauty.

2. The fruit and forest trees, flourishing in all their glory of leaf, blossom, and fruit, were ready to minister to the support, comfort, and enjoyment of their future lord: the sea, the air, the earth, were each filled with their appropriate inhabitants, and throughout the whole creation was beauty, and grace, and life, and motion, and joy, and jubilee.

3. But still, in the midst of all this apparent glory and activity of vegetable and animal life in the newcreated world, there was not a single being endued with reason and understanding; one that could elevate its thought above the glorious and wonderful spectacle to the great Author of it, or acknowledge and adore its Creator.

4. Amidst this infinite variety of beings, there was not a single one which, to a material body, added an immaterial immortal soul; so that there was still a great blank in creation. A wonderful and magnificent temple was reared, and shone in glory and beauty, but there was as yet no priest therein, to offer up incense to the Deity to whom it was dedicated.

QUESTIONS.-1. What was the condition of the earth just before the existence of man? 2. What sort of being was needed in order to complete the work of creation? 3. Where, in the Bible, is the account of the creation of man?

LESSON LXX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. PO LIT' IC AL, pertaining to a nation or state; public. 2. DIS PENS A' TION, that which has been dispensed or allotted; an allotment. 3. IN TEL' LI GENCE, understanding knowl edge. 4. GRAND' EUR, greatness. 5. EX ALT', raise; lift up. 6. DIG'NI FY, to render worthy of regard. 7. AS SID' U ous, constant in application; diligent. 8. EL' E VATE, raise; exalt. 9. EL' E MENT, first principle. 10. TRANS MIT', deliver over. 11. POS TER I TY, descendants. 12. IN' DEX, that which points out; mark. 13. Her' ald ry, art or practice of blazoning arms or ensigns. 14. DRAG' ONS, a fierce kind of serpent much celebrated in the middle ages. 15. HELMETS, defensive armor for the head. 16. AG' RI CULTURE, the tilling of the soil; farming. 17. OP PRESS' OR, one that oppresses; a tyrant 18. UN MO LEST' ED, not disturbed, or harmed. 19. COM PETE', rival one another.

MORAI DIGNITY OF LABOR.

STEPHEN H. TYNG.

1. Human talent, industry, wisdom, and skill, under the favoring blessing of Heaven, must now go forth to sow and to gather in the harvest of the earth. We are teaching lessons of political economy which the world has never heard before. It is a noble dispensation for our country. Other nations may see us, but not with the vines or olives of Italy or France; nor with the oranges and grapes of Spain or Portugal; nor even the rich and glowing verdure, and teeming harvests of England and lowland Scotland.

2. The magnificence of their time-honored architecture we have not attained. And yet there are intelligence, prosperity, dignity, independence, and selfrespect marking the laboring classes of our popula tion which lift us far above all envy of the grandeur and glory of European display. They see that we have a people, flourishing and prosperous beyond comparison.

3. It is the province of America to build, not palaces, but men; to exalt, not titled stations, but general humanity; to dignify, not idle repose, but assiduous industry; to elevate, not the few, but the many; and to make herself known, not so much in individuals, as in herself; spreading to the highest possible level, but striving to keep it level still, universal education, pros perity, and honor.

4. The great element of this whole plan of effort and instruction, is the moral, relative dignity of labor; an element which we are to exalt in public estimation in the highest possible degree, and transmit to our families and to posterity, as the true greatness of the country and the world.

5. We are to look at this enlarging elevation of the working classes of men-a fact which may be considered the main index of our age-not as a difficulty to be limited, but as an attainment in which we greatly rejoice. And, if our heraldry is in the hammer, and