ganized to accomplish this great work on the soul of the child. And on the other hand, let there be no family altar, and no sacrifice of praise in the habitation, and it is easy to see what is to be the result on the mind of a child anxious about his eternal welfare. True, he feels, and deeply feels. He prays, he trembles, he weeps. He lifts the eye to heaven in a state of deep anxiety, and waits for a guide to conduct him to the Saviour of men. The world to him is losing its charms. Temptation is shorn of its power. Fashion, wealth, splendour, are dimmed of their lustre, and the spirit pants for immortality-for brighter peace more perennial joys than this world can give. What is demanded then to fill the whole soul with peace? What but the family altar-the deep seriousness of religion there the pleading father, the bending circle, seeking for common salvation? And if there be no such altar, how cold and chill all that influence in the family. If the world be all, and fashion only has its seat there, or wealth is the grand object, or a mother's lips invite to the theatre and the ball-room, and never speak of prayer; and a father's hand guides only to scenes of gain or ambition, who can fail to see the result? How soon all seriousness shall disappear. How soon the Spirit of God shall be grieved. How soon a new current will be given to the affections, and the Son of God shut out from the view, and the Prince of darkness establish again his broken and enfeebled reign. Stronger fetters shall bind the captive to the chariot of the dark

monarch of despair; and all the influence of a family be imparted to prolong his empire over the soul. And if to this we add, what may and does often exist in a family without prayer, cold and cutting remarks about religion; perversion of its doctrines and duties; derision of the work of God in saving man; apparent respect, but real sarcasm, the work is done, and the enemy of man has gained his object. The most sad narrative, perhaps, that could be penned in this world, would be the history of families who have thus stifled the serious thoughts of children, and driven back, by neglect or derision, the Son of God advancing to take possession of the human heart. For the wealth of the Indies, I would not come into the secret of such families; nor hazard the loss and ruin which might accrue to my children in days of seriousness, by the neglect of family prayer. There are times when the neglect of this plain and obvious duty may seal the character of a child, and mark his course for ever onward in the ways of sin and of hell. A. B.

FIFTEEN FOLLIES.

1. To think that the more a man eats, the fatter and stronger he will become.

2. To believe that the more hours children study at school, the faster they learn.

3. To conclude that if exercise is good for the health, the more violent and exhausting it is, the more good is done.

4. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained.

5. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.

6. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better, is "good for" the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. The "soothing syrup," for example, which stops the cough of children, and does arrest diarrhoea, only to cause, a little later, alarming convulsions, or the more fatal inflammation of the brain, or water on the brain; at least, it always protracts the disease.

7. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that somehow or other it may be done in your case with impunity.

8. To advise another to take a remedy which you have not tried yourself, or without making special inquiry whether all the conditions are alike.

9. To eat without an appetite, or continue to eat, after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste.

10. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning.

11. To remove a portion of the clothing immediately after exercise, when the most stupid drayman in England knows that if he does not put a cover on his horse the moment he ceases work, in winter, he will

HOLY ASPIRATION.-After his recovery from an attack of disease, in his early ministry, Dr. Kendrick wrote, "May I daily inquire, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Impart to me new grace every day. Let

lose him in a few days by pneumonia.

12. To contend that because the dirtiest children in the street, or on the highway, are hearty and healthy, that, therefore, it is healthy to be dirty, forgetting that continuous daily exposure to the pure out-door air in joyous, unrestrained activities, is such a powerful agency for health, that those who live thus are well, in spite of the rags and filth.

13. To presume to repeat, later in life, without injury, the indiscretion, exposures, and intemperances which, in the flush of youth, were practised with impunity.

14. To believe that warm air is necessarily impure, or that pure cool air is necessarily more healthy than the confined air of a close and crowded vehicle. The latter at most can only cause fainting or nausea; while entering a conveyance after walking briskly, lowering a window, and being thus exposed to a draught, will give a cold infallibly, or an attack of pleurisy or pneumonia, which will cause weeks and months of suffering, if not actual death within four days.

15. To "remember the Sabbathday," by working harder and later on Saturday than on any other day in the week, with a view to sleeping late next morning, and staying at home all day to rest; conscience quieted by the plea of not "feeling very well."-Journal of Health.

me not spend one idle day in the succeeding part of my life, nor a day in which I shall not know more of thee at the close of it, than at the beginning. O, may I feel my dependence upon thy all-conquering grace!"

Ir is most depressing and miserable work, getting up at candlelight. It is impossible to shave comfortably; it is impossible to find anything you

want.

"Sleep," says Sancho Panza,

covers a man all over like a mantle of comfort; but rising before daylight envelopes the entire being in perfect misery." An indescribable vacuity makes itself felt in the epigastric regions, and a leaden heaviness weighs upon heart and spirits. It must be a considerable item in the hard lot of domestic servants, to have to get up through all the winter months in the cold, dark house; let us be thankful to them, through whose humble labours and self-denial we find the cheerful fire blazing in the tidy breakfastparlour when we find our way down stairs. That same apartment looked cheerless enough when the housemaid entered it two hours ago. It is sad, when you are lying in bed of a morning, lazily conscious of that circling amplitude of comfort, to hear the childly cry of the poor sweep outside; or the tread of the factory hands shivering by in their thin garments towards the great cotton mill, glaring spectral out of its many windows, but at least with a cozy suggestion of warmth and light.

Think of the baker, too, who rose in the dark of midnight, that those hot rolls might appear on your breakfast table; and of the printer, intelligent, active, accurate to a degree that you careless folks who put no points to your letters have little idea of, whose labours have given you that damp sheet which in a little while will feel so crisp and firm after it has been duly dried, and which will tell you all that is going on over all the world, down to the opera which closed at twelve, and the parliamentary debate which

was not over till half-past four. It is good occasionally to rise at five on a December morning, that you may feel how much you are indebted to some who do so for your sake all winter through. No doubt they get accustomed to it; but so you may by doing it always. A great many people living easy lives have no idea of the discomforts of rising by candlelight. Probably they hardly ever did it; when they did they had a blazing fire and abundant light to dress by, and even with these advantages, which essentially change the nature of the enterprise, they have not done it for very long.-The Country Parson.

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.

THE following every-day rules, from the papers of Dr. West, are thrown together as general waymarks in the journey of life:

"Never ridicule sacred things, or what others may esteem as such, however absurd they may appear to you. Never resent a supposed injury till you know the views or motive of the author of it. On no occasion retaliate. Always take the part of an absent person who is censured in company, so far as truth and propriety will allow. Never think worse of another on account of his differing with you in political and religious subjects. Never dispute with a man who is more than seventy years of age, nor with an enthusiast. Do not jest so as to wound the feelings of another. Say as little as possible of yourself and of those who are near to you. Never court the favours of the rich by flattering either their vanities or their vices. Speak with calmness and deliberation, especially in circumstances which tend to irritate."

5. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.

6. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better, is good for" the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. The "soothing syrup," for example, which stops the cough of children, and does arrest diarrhoea, only to cause, a little later, alarming convulsions, or the more fatal inflammation of the brain, or water on the brain; at least, it always protracts the disease.

7. To commit an act which is felt

in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that somehow or other it may be done in your case with impunity.

8. To advise another to take a remedy which you have not tried yourself, or without making special inquiry whether all the conditions are alike.

9. To eat without an appetite, or continue to eat, after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste.

10. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning.

11. To remove a portion of the clothing immediately after exercise, when the most stupid drayman in England knows that if he does not put a cover on his horse the moment he ceases work, in winter, he will

HOLY ASPIRATION.-After his recovery from an attack of disease, in his early ministry, Dr. Kendrick wrote, "May I daily inquire, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Impart to me new grace every day. Let

lose him in a few days by pneumonia.

12. To contend that because the dirtiest children in the street, or on the highway, are hearty and healthy, that, therefore, it is healthy to be dirty, forgetting that continuous daily exposure to the pure out-door air in joyous, unrestrained activities, is such a powerful agency for health, that those who live thus are well, in spite of the rags and filth.

13. To presume to repeat, later in life, without injury, the indiscretion, exposures, and intemperances which, in the flush of youth, were practised with impunity.

14. To believe that warm air is necessarily impure, or that pure cool air is necessarily more healthy than the confined air of a close and crowded vehicle. The latter at most can only cause fainting or nausea; while entering a conveyance after walking briskly, lowering a window, and being thus exposed to a draught, will give a cold infallibly, or an attack of pleurisy or pneumonia, which will cause weeks and months of suffering, if not actual death within four days.

15. To "remember the Sabbathday," by working harder and later on Saturday than on any other day in the week, with a view to sleeping late next morning, and staying at home all day to rest; conscience quieted by the plea of not "feeling very well."-Journal of Health.

me not spend one idle day in the succeeding part of my life, nor a day in which I shall not know more of thee at the close of it, than at the beginning. O, may I feel my dependence upon thy all-conquering grace!"

Ir is most depressing and miserable work, getting up at candlelight. It is impossible to shave comfortably; it is impossible to find anything you

want.

"Sleep," says Sancho Panza, 66 covers a man all over like a mantle of comfort; but rising before daylight envelopes the entire being in perfect misery." An indescribable vacuity makes itself felt in the epigastric regions, and a leaden heaviness weighs upon heart and spirits. It must be a considerable item in the hard lot of domestic servants, to have to get up through all the winter months in the cold, dark house; let us be thankful to them, through whose humble labours and self-denial we find the cheerful fire blazing in the tidy breakfastparlour when we find our way down stairs. That same apartment looked cheerless enough when the housemaid entered it two hours ago. It is sad, when you are lying in bed of a morning, lazily conscious of that circling amplitude of comfort, to hear the childly cry of the poor sweep outside; or the tread of the factory hands shivering by in their thin garments towards the great cotton mill, glaring spectral out of its many windows, but at least with a cozy suggestion of warmth and light.

Think of the baker, too, who rose in the dark of midnight, that those hot rolls might appear on your breakfast table; and of the printer, intelligent, active, accurate to a degree that you careless folks who put no points to your letters have little idea of, whose labours have given you that damp sheet which in a little while will feel so crisp and firm after it has been duly dried, and which will tell you all that is going on over all the world, down to the opera which closed at twelve, and the parliamentary debate which

was not over till half-past four. It is good occasionally to rise at five on a December morning, that you may feel how much you are indebted to some who do so for your sake all winter through. No doubt they get accustomed to it; but so you may by doing it always. A great many people living easy lives have no idea of the discomforts of rising by candlelight. Probably they hardly ever did it; when they did they had a blazing fire and abundant light to dress by, and even with these advantages, which essentially change the nature of the enterprise, they have not done it for very long.-The Country Parson.

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE. THE following every-day rules, from the papers of Dr. West, are thrown together as general waymarks in the journey of life:

"Never ridicule sacred things, or what others may esteem as such, however absurd they may appear to you. Never resent a supposed injury till you know the views or motive of the author of it. On no occasion retaliate. Always take the part of an absent person who is censured in company, so far as truth and propriety will allow. Never think worse of another on account of his differing with you in political and religious subjects. Never dispute with a man who is more than seventy years of age, nor with an enthusiast. Do not jest so as to wound the feelings of another. Say as little as possible of yourself and of those who are near to you. Never court the favours of the rich by flattering either their vanities or their vices. Speak with calmness and deliberation, especially in circumstances which tend to irritate."