fince all the diftreffes of perfecution have been suffered by thofe," of whom the world was not worthy ;" and the Redeemer of mankind himself was "a man of forrows, and acquainted with grief."

IF thou haft gathered nothing in thy youth, how canft thou find any thing in thine age?

Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.

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Oh, how great is he that findeth wisdom! Yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord! The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love; and faith is the beginning of cleaving unto him.

OF all the virtues, there are none ought more to be inculcated, into the mind of a young girl, than modesty and meeknefs. Vanity and pride are perpetually endeavouring to force their way into the heart; and too much care cannot be taken to repulse their efforts.

WE muft, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taite that knowledge and perfection, which are to make us happy in the next.

The GOVERNESS: A SIMILE.

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AS when blithe lambs their vernal revels keep,
Bound from the turf, and o'er the hillocks leap;
Now harmless try to butt, then run away;
Now wearied feed, and thus confume the day;
Th' indulgent thepherdess attentive lies
Left from the woods fome fudden foe fhould rife,
And as they play, her harmless flock furprize.
So, the fage governefs, whose constant care
By wisdom's dictates, forms the tender fair,
When her gay female throng, to fport inclin'd,
Sufpend the nobler pleafures of the mind,"
With jealous eyes each motion does furvey,
Left they should fwerve from virtue in their play.
CHILDREN, like tender oziers, take the bow,
And as they first are fashion'd, always grow;

For

For what we learn in youth, to that alone
In age we are by fecond nature prone.

Extract from Young's Night Thoughts.

THE chamber, where the good man meets his fate,
Is privileg'd beyond the common walk

Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heav'n,
Fly, ye profane ! if not draw near with awe,
Receive the bleffing, and adore the hand
That threw in this Bethesda your disease.
If unreftor'd by this, despair your cure;
For here, refiftlefs demonftration dwells-
A death-bed's a detector of the heart;
Here tir'd diffimulation drops her mask,
Thro' life's grimace, that miftrefs of the scene!
Here real, and apparent, are the fame.
You see the man, you fee his hold on Heav'n.
If found his virtue, as Philander's found,
Heav'n waits not the last moment, owns her friends
On this fide death, and points them out to men-
A lecture filent, but of fov'reign pow'r !

To vice, confufion-and to virtue, peace.

IT is a certain fign of an ill heart, to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent, can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's felf, and an impatience of feeing it in another.

TO forbear replying to an unjust reproach, and over-look it, with a generous, or (if poffible) with an intire neglect of it, is one of the most heroic acts of a great mind.

EVERY appearance of amiable fimplicity, or of honeft fhame, nature's hafty confcience, will be dear to fenfible hearts; they will carefully cherish every fuch indication in a young female; for they will perceive, that it is this temper, wifely cultivated, which will one day make her enamoured of the lovelinefs of virtue and the beauty of holinefs; from which he will acquire a tafte for the doctrines of religion, and a fpirit to perform the duties of it.

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THE hypocrify of affuming virtues, which are not inherent in the heart, prevents the growth and disclosure of thofe real ones, which it is the great end of education to cultivate.

GOOD difpofitions, of themselves, will go but a very little way, unless they are confirmed into good principles. And this cannot be effected, but by a careful courfe of religious inftruction, and a patient and laborious cultivation of the moral temper.

IN the great and univerfal concern of religion, both fexes, and all ranks, are equally interested. The truly catholic fpirit of Chriftianity accommodates itfelf, with an aftonishing condefcenfion, to the circumstances of the whole human race.

LET no mistaken girl fancy fhe gives a proof of her wit, by her want of piety; or that a contempt of things ferious and facred, will exalt her understanding, or raise her character, even in the opinion of the most avowed male infidels.

CICERO fpoke it as the highest commendation of Cato's character, that he embraced philofophy, not for the fake of difputing like a philofopher, but of living like one. The chief purpofe of Chriftian knowledge, is to promote the great end of a Christian life.

From the Book of Wisdom :-Hearken unto thy fatherdefpife not thy mother when she is old.

"TIS wisdom fpeaks-her voice divine
Attend my fon, and life is thine.-
Thine, taught to fhun the devious way,
Where folly leads the blind aftray :
Let virtue's lamp thy footfteps guide,
And fhun the dang'rous heights of pride;
The peaceful vale, the golden mean,
The path of life purfue ferene.

From infancy what fufferings fpring-
While yet a naked helpless thing,

Extract :

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Who o'er thy limbs a cov'ring caft,
To fhield thee from th' inclement blaft?
Thy mother-honour her-her arms
Secur'd thee from a thousand harms;
When helpless, hanging on her breast,
She footh'd thy fobbing heart to reft;
For thee her peace, her health destroy'd,
For thee, her ev'ry pow'r employ'd;
Thoughtful of thee, before the day
Shot through the dark its rifing ray;
Thoughtful of thee, when fable night
Again had quench'd the beams of light.
To Heav'n, in ceaseless pray'r for thee
She rais'd her head, and bent her knee.
Defpife her not-now feeble
grown-
Oh make her wants and woes thy own;
Let not thy lips rebel; nor eyes,
Her weakness, frailty, years, defpife;
From youthful infolence defend,
Be patron, husband, guardian, friend.
Thus fhalt thou footh, in life's decline,
The mis'ries that may once be thine.

AN unwary moment may happen to the most guarded and reserved; and this reflection ought to fill us with charity for others.

A PRUDENT man hath his eyes open, and his mouth fhut; and as much defires to inform himself, as to inftruct others.

IN difcourfe, make not too great a profufion or expence of your knowledge, left your treasure be foon exhaufted.

THE thought of immortality, the hope of endless happiness, is enough to animate the foul with the noblest ambition, and yet make it look, with the humbleft compaffion, upon that part of the creation, that wants fo divine a hope.

The

The latter Part of the 3d Chap. of Habbakuk imitated.

ALTHO' the blooming plants forget to shoot,
The fig-tree fade, and vines deny their fruit;
No tafteful olives finish our repast,

Nor op'ning buds furvive the wintry blaft;
The barren fields their wonted blades withhold,
And lambs no longer fill the fcanty fold;

Nor flocks, nor herds, around the vale be seen,
But one ftern famine fweep th' impov'rifh'd green-
Yet fhall the God of nature claim my praise,
Wake my first songs, and share my latest lays;
Each night and morn shall string the duteous lyre,
And all my nerves retouch with facred fire;
Hills, vales, and groves, the founding anthem own,
And the fweet echoes reach th' unfhaken throne,
Where reigns for ever, in unclouded day,

My Guide, that leads at once and lights my way.
He from my paths will turn th' oppofing wind,
And give my feet the fwiftness of the hind;
Life's rugged tracts make like the pleasant plains,
On whofe fmooth ground the trav'ler fooths his pains.

"IF thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink." That is, if we behold our enemy labouring under any extraordinary diftrefs or calamity, which is in our power to remove, or alleviate; as in the cafe of extreme poverty, fickness, or misforture, we ought then cheerfully to lend him our help and affiftance, to extricate him out of his difficulties or afflictions. An amiable example of which our Saviour affords us in the parable of the good Samaritan, who had much better reafon for neglecting the diftreffed traveller, than either the priest, or the Levite, viz Because he was a Jew, and therefore his declared enemy. in him all party animofities were overpowered by the tender feelings of pity and compaffion.

But

SELFISHNESS may indifferently happen to be a motive to an action, that, in itself, is either good or