sant garden in which were ripe fruits, set two persons | Corwin-we shall be glad to hear you." "Well to keep it, one of whom was blind and the other lame; sir, I want to say that you are not in earnest. Your the former not being able to see the fruit, nor the report said that there are two hundred families in latter to gather it. The lame man, however, seeing this county without the Bible! This could not be the fruit, persuaded the blind man to take him upon if you were in earnest. In the great contest for the his shoulders, and by that means he easily gathered election of Harrison we Whig members of Congress the fruit, which they divided between them. The gave our whole salaries to carry that election. We lord of the garden coming some time after and in- thought the salvation of the country depended upon quiring after his fruit, each began to excuse him- it. If you want to carry on this work, and really self; the blind man said that he had no eyes to see mean that every man shall have the Bible, you with, and the lame one that he had no feet to ap- must be in earnest. You must go to work and proach the trees; but the King, ordering the lame give every man the Bible." The meeting was man to be set upon the blind, passed sentence on electrified. Some one immediately rose and moved and punished them both. to make Thomas Corwin President of the Warren and Mr. Corwin rose again: "Sir, if I accept the County Bible Society. It was unanimously carried, presidency of this society, it is on one condition, is made again. When this society meets three that you go to work, and that no such report as that months from to-day, the report must be that no family in Warren County is without the Bible." The work was done, and every family supplied. 41. ACTING may become real. The chief personage in one of Molière's best plays, "Le Malade Imaginaire," is a hypochondriac who pretends to be dead. On the fourth night of the performance of this piece Molière represented that character, and consequently in one of the scenes was obliged to act the part of a dead man. “It has been said,” continues Bayle, "that he expired during that part of his play where he is told to make an end of his feint; but he could neither speak nor arise, for he was dead."-Theatrical Anecdotes. 42. ACTION is sought by the brave. "You are my vassals, my friends," cried the blind John of Bohemia, at the battle of Crecy, to the German nobles around him; "I pray and beseech you to lead me so far into the fight that I may strike one good blow with this sword of mine!" Linking their bridles together, the little company plunged into the thick of the combat, to fall as their fellows were falling.-Little's Historical Lights. 43. ACTION necessary as well as prayer. In our countrymen the devout doth seldom carry it over the active; but amongst Catholic seamen,' who repose such confidence in vows and the number of their prayers, it is most usual in a storm for all hands to betake themselves to their images, when they should betake them to God with their trust, and to their business with their resources. It is so also amongst the Mohammedans, who are such strict Predestinarians as to strike to the fates when they fancy them drawing near. And so also, I believe, with the seamen of the East Indies, who in the midst of a storm can with difficulty be kept to their posts. These are all instances of piety setting action to a side, and becoming ignorant and fatal superstition.-Edward Irving. 44. ACTIONS, Effects of, not confined to ourselves. A passenger in a vessel from Joppa cut a hole through the ship's side, and when expostulated with calmly replied, “What matters it to you? The hole I have made lies under my own berth." Spurgeon. 45. ACTIONS, Judged by. It is related of the late Hon. Thomas Corwin, formerly Governor of Ohio, that he dropped into a meeting one evening in Lebanon to see what "the brethren were doing. It was a meeting of the Bible Society, and the business was done in a very lifeless, hum-drum way. The Secretary disclosed in his report the fact that two hundred families in the county were destitute of the Bible, and some brother deplored in suitable phrase the shameful fact, when Mr. Corwin rose and said, "Mr. President, may I be allowed to say something on this subject?" Certainly, Mr. 66 46. ACTIONS, Lasting effects of. "Don't write there," said a father to his son, who was writing with a diamond on the window. "Why not? "Because you can't rub it out."-Christian Age. 47. ACTIONS, Scrutiny of. In the reign of King Charles I. the goldsmiths of London had a custom of weighing several sorts of their precious metals before the Privy Council. On this occasion they made use of scales poised with such exquisite nicety that the beam would turn, the Master of the company affirmed, at the two-hundredth part of a grain. Noy, the famous Attorney-General, standing by, and hearing this, replied, "I shall be loath, then, to have all my actions weighed in these scales." 48. ACTIONS, Significance of. Gray, the poet, once made it a particular request to a friend of his, who was going to the Continent, that he would not pay a visit to Voltaire; and when his friend replied, "What can a visit from a person like me to him signify?" he rejoined with peculiar earnestness, "Sir, every tribute to such a man signifies.”—Life of Gray. 49. ACTIONS speak. When Sextus had sufficiently ingratiated himself with the Gabians, the last of the Latin towns which had defied Tarquin's power, he sent a messenger to his father, for whom he had promised to win the town, asking him what he should further do to make the Gabians submit. Tarquin made no answer, but as he walked up and down his garden, kept cutting off the heads of the tallest poppies with his staff. The messenger, tired with this, went back and told Sextus what had passed. Sextus, understanding what his father meant, began to falsely accuse the chief men of the city; some he put to death, and some he banished, until at last Gabii was left defenceless, and Sextus was able to hand it over to his father. 50. ACTIONS weighed. There is a machine in the Bank of England which receives sovereigns as a mill receives grain, for the purpose of determining wholesale whether they are of full weight. As they pass through, the machinery, by unerring laws, throws all that are light to one side, and all that are of full weight to another. That process is a silent but solemn parable for me. Founded as it is upon the laws of nature, it affords the most vivid similitude of the certainty which characterises the judgment of the great day. There are no mistakes or partialities to which the light may trust; the only hope lies in being of standard weight before they go in.-Arnot. 51. ACTIVITY, Christian, Benefit of. A tourist lately, whilst crossing a mountain height alone, over almost untrodden snow, felt a drowsiness stealing over himself, to yield to which he knew would be fatal. As the night closed in the snowflakes fell thick and fast, and the freezing blast grew apace; he tried to reason with himself, and with his utmost energy to free himself from the sleep of death fastening upon him; but all to no purpose. Just, however, when he was about to succumb, and his weary eyelids were closing never again to open, he stumbled against a heap that lay across his path. It was no stone that his foot struck, although no stone could be colder, or apparently more lifeless. On examination it proved to be a human body, and all through the singing was fumbling in his pocket to make sure of the smallest piece of silver for the contribution-box.-Dr. Antliff. 55. ADAPTABILITY in nature and grace. In the works of God I know nothing more beautiful than the perfect skill with which He suits His creatures to their condition. He gives wings to birds, fins to the fish, sails to the thistle-seed, a lamp to light the glowworm, great roots to moor the majestic cedar, and to the aspiring ivy a thousand hands to climb the wall. Nor is the wisdom thus conspicuous in nature less remarkable and adorable as exhibited in the arrangements of the Kingdom of Grace. He forms a holy people for a holy state. He fits heaven for the redeemed, and the redeemed for heaven.--Guthrie. 56. ADAPTATION in a minister. "We use the language of the market," said Whitfield, and this was much to his honour; yet when he stood in the his speech entranced the infidel noblemen whom drawing-room of the Countess of Huntingdon, and she brought to hear him, he adopted another style. buried beneath a fresh drift of snow. The next moment the traveller had a brother in his arms; His language was equally plain in each case, because it was equally familiar to the audience: he did not was chafing his hands and wrists, his chest and brow; breathing upon his "cold lips bluely swell-lost its plainness in the one case or the other, and use the ipsissima verba, or his language would have ing" the warm breath of a living soul; pressing would either have been slang to the nobility or the still, silent heart of his companion to the rapid Greek to the crowd.-Spurgeon. pulses of his own generous bosom. And what was the result? The effort to stoop down and assist another had removed the ominous pressure upon his brain and eyes, and imparted to him renewed life and vigour. He was himself again. And the record stands: "He saved a brother, and was himself saved." Is there not here the groundwork of a parable to illustrate the truth, that active Christian work is a necessary and ordained means, not only for benefiting others, but for the sustaining and saving of our own soul and spirit ?—E. Neil, M.A. 52. ACTIVITY, Effects of. It was a clear, cold, bright winter's day. The crisp untrodden snow which covered the landscape sparkled in the sunlight as if with millions of gems. The little stream that in summer was always dancing and singing by the wayside was now completely frozen over, silent and still under its icy covering; but as we approached the mill, where a little fall was visible in its channel, there it was leaping and sparkling as merrily as in the midst of a summer's day. Cold as it was on every side, and frost-bound as the stream was above and below, here it was too active and busy to freeze. company 53. ACTIVITY not always a sign of progress. Two sailors happened to be on a military paradeground when the soldiers were at drill, going through the evolution of marking time. One sailor, observing the other watching the movement of the very attentively, with eyes fixed and arms akimbo, asked him what he thought of it. "Well, Jack," replied his comrade, "I am thinking there must be a pretty strong tide running this morning, for these poor fellows have been pulling away this half-hour, and have not got an inch ahead yet." 57. ADMIRATION, Restrained. A traveller who was asked whether he did not admire the structure of some stately building made the reply, "No; for I have been at Rome, where better are to be seen every day." 58. ADMONITION, Earnest, Effects of. It is said that, one evening in the autumn of 1776, Mrs. Heck entered a house in New York, where she found a party playing cards. Burning with indignation at their sin and folly, the good woman seized the cards and threw them into the fire, and at the same time administered a scathing rebuke to all concerned. She then went to the residence of Mr. Embury, and told him what she had done, adding, with much earnestness, "Philip, you must preach to us, or we shall all go to hell, and God will require our blood at your hands." The backsliding professor, who had formerly officiated as a local preacher in his own country, was somewhat confused by this startling appeal, and he endeavoured to excuse himself by saying, "How can I preach when I have neither a house to preach in nor a congregation to preach to?" "Preach," said this noble, earnest Christian woman, "in your own house, and to your own company; "and before she left she elicited a promise from Mr. Embury that he would endeavour once more to speak to the people in the name of the Lord. A few days afterwards Mr. Embury redeemed his pledge by preaching the first Methodist sermon ever "delivered in America, in his own hired house, to a congregation of five persons. The number attending the services rapidly increased, so that there was not room to accommodate them. 54. ACTS may belie the words. Dr. Hall tells the story of a Scotchman who sang most piously the hymn "Were the whole realm of nature mine, 59. ADMONITIONS and ill-timed advice. "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable or keep shouting to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter Blondin, stoop a little more-go a little faster-lean | encouragement of a younger worker. Handing to a little more to the north-lean a little more to the south'? No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue."—President Lincoln. Cherubini one of his latest compositions, Haydn said, "Permit me to style myself your musical father, and to call you my son," words which made such an impression on Cherubini that he could not keep back the tears when he parted with the aged Haydn.-Frederick Crowest. 65. ADOPTION, Desire for. A Caffre boy, twelve years old, was asked whether he did not repent having come to Gnadenthall, the missionary settlement of the Moravian brethren. On his answering in the negative, the missionary observed, "But in the Caffre country you had meat in plenty, and excellent milk, and here you can get neither." To this he replied, "It is very true; but I wish to become a child of God, and I hear in this place how nothing of it. I rejoice, therefore, that I am come hither, and am satisfied with anything."-White 60. ADMONITIONS, Objections to. Suppose a number of persons were to call on a minister on the Sabbath-day morning, and being admitted into his study, one of them should say to him, "I hope, sir, you do not mean to-day to be severe against avarice, for I love money, and my heart goes after my covetousness." Suppose another should say, "I trust you will not be severe against backbiting, for my tongue walketh with slanderers, and I consider scandal to be the seasoning of all conversation." Suppose another should say, "Do not represent implacability as being inconsistent with divine goodness, for I never did forgive such an one, and II may attain it, whilst in my own country I hear never will." And so of the rest. What would this minister say to these men? Why, if he were in a proper state of mind he would say, "Oh, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness! wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord!"-Rev. W. Jay. 61. ADOPTION and its claims. Among the American Indians, when a captive was saved to be adopted in the place of some chieftain who had fallen, his allegiance and his identity were looked upon as changed. If he had left a wife and children behind him, they were to be forgotten and blotted from memory. He stood in the place of the dead warrior, assumed his responsibilities, was supposed to cherish those whom he cherished, and hate those whom he hated; in fact, he was supposed to stand in the same relations of consanguinity to the tribe. -Bancroft. 62 ADOPTION and its privileges. After the battle of Austerlitz Napoleon immediately adopted all the children of the soldiers who had fallen. They were supported and educated by the State, and, as belonging to the family of the Emperor, they were permitted to attach the name of Napoleon to their own.-Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 63. ADOPTION, Comfort from. While Mr. Thomas Boston was walking up and down in his closet one evening in heaviness, his little daughter, whom he had laid in bed, suddenly raising up herself, said to him she would tell him a note, and thus expressed herself "Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre. She went back again with them to the sepulchre, but they would not believe that Christ was risen till Mary Magdalene met Him; and He said to her, 'Tell my brethren they are my brethren yet."" "This," says Mr. Boston," she pronounced with a certain air of sweetness. It took me by the heart. His brethren yet,' thought I; and may I think that Christ will own me as one of His brethren yet? It was to me as life from the dead."-Whitecross. 64. ADOPTION confers honour. It was at Vienna, in the year 1805, that Haydn, then seventythree years of age, first met Cherubini, who, though not a young man, still must have appeared so to the veteran composer, being thirty years his junior, and not having then composed many of those works which have since made his name so famous. But the very fact of his own seniority was made use of by the old man to utter one of the most graceful compliments which could have been spoken for the cross. 66. ADORATION claimed by man. The mode of adoration of falling prostrate on the ground and kissing the feet of the Emperor was borrowed by Diocletian from Persian servitude; but it was continued and aggravated till the last age of the Greek monarchy. Excepting only on Sundays, when it was waived from a motive of religious pride, this humiliating reverence was exacted from all who entered the royal presence.-Gibbon. 67. ADORATION, Man's foolish. A doll, which by a clockwork movement graciously bowed its head, used to be carried through Paris in the King's carriage, and received the huzzas of the crowd or the shots of an assassin.-J. Hain Friswell. 68. ADULATION, Impious. Splendid was that festival at Cæsarea at which Herod Agrippa, in the pomp and pride of power, entered the theatre in a robe of silver, which glittered, says the historian, with the morning rays of the sun, so as to dazzle the eyes of the assembly and excite general admiration. Some of his flatterers set up the shout, “A present god!' Agrippa did not repress the impious adulation which spread through the theatre. At that moment he looked up and saw an owl perched over his head on a rope, and Agrippa had been forewarned that when next he saw that bird, "at the height of his fortune," he would die within five days. The fatal omen, according to Josephus, pierced the heart of the King, who with deep melancholy exclaimed, "Your god will soon suffer the common lot of mortality." He was immediately struck, in the language of the sacred volume, by an angel. Seized with violent pains, he was carried to his palace, lingered five days in extreme agony, being "eaten of worms," and so died.-Francis Jacox. 69. ADULATION in God's house. One of the first acts performed by George III., after his accession to the throne, was to issue an order prohibiting any of the clergy who should be called to preach before him from paying him any compliment in their discourses. His Majesty was led to this from the fulsome adulation which Dr. Thomas Wilson, prebendary of Westminster, thought proper to deliver in the Chapel-Royal, and for which, instead of thanks, he received from his royal auditor a pointed reprimand, His Majesty observing "that he came to chapel to hear the praises of God, and not his own."-Clerical Anecdotes. 70. ADULATION, Pulpit. A squire of a parish | had given away a number of flaming scarlet cloaks to the oldest matrons of the parish. These resplendent beings were required to attend the parish church on the following Sunday, and to sit in front of the pulpit, from which one of the avowed successors of the apostles edified the saints from the words, "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." It is reported that on a subsequent occasion, when the same benefactor of the parish had given a bushel of potatoes to every man who had a family, the topic on the following Sunday was, "And they said, It is manna."-Spurgeon. 71. ADVANCE, Unity in. When General Grant was in front of Richmond, and his army had been repulsed in the Wilderness, he called together his co-commanders and held a council, and asked them what they thought he had better do. There were General Sherman and General Howard, now leading generals, and all thought he had better retreat. He heard them through, and then broke up the council of war and sent them back to their headquarters; but before morning an orderly came round with a despatch from the General directing an advance in solid column on the enemy at daylight. That was what took Richmond and broke down the rebellion in our country. Christians, let us advance in solid column against the enemy; let us lift high the standard, and in the name of our God let us lift up our voice, and let us work together, shoulder to shoulder, and keep our eye single to the honour and glory of Christ.-Moody. 72. ADVANCE, We must. The Confederate General Longstreet, during the battle of Gettysburg, had one of his generals come to him and report that he was unable to bring up his men again so as to charge the enemy. "Very well," said the General, "just let them remain where they are; the enemy's going to advance, and will spare you the trouble." before my window here (at Saratoga) this morning will kill the vermin; so God sends wintry seasons upon His children to kill certain species of besetting sins.-Cuyler. 76. ADVERSITY a test of friendship. A man being in his travel upon the road, and there being a sun-dial in the way, if the sun shine he will step out of his way to take notice of it; but if the sun do not shine he will go by a hundred times and never regard it. So let but the sun of prosperity friends more than a good many; but if a cloudy shine upon a man, then who but he? he shall have day come and take away the sunshine, he may easily number his acquaintance.-Spencer. 77. ADVERSITY, Comfort and joy in. Enemies think themselves satisfied that we are put to wander in mosses and upon mountains, but even amidst the storms of these last two nights I cannot express what sweet times I have had when I had no covering but the dark curtains of night. Yea, in the silent watch my mind was led out to admire the deep and inexpressible ocean of joy wherein the Each star led me whole family of heaven swim. to wonder what He must be who is the Star of Jacob, of whom all stars borrow their shining.— Renwick (last of the Scottish martyrs). 78. ADVERSITY, Fidelity in. The Convention, after debate, has granted him [Louis XVI.] legal counsel of his own choosing. Advocate Target feels himself "too old," being turned of fifty-four, and declines. He had gained great honour once, defending Rohan, the Necklace-Cardinal, but will gain none here. Advocate Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline. Nay, behold, good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of his fields, the good old hero! He is grey with seventy years; he says, "I was twice called to the council of him who was my master when all the world coveted that honour, and I owe him the same service now when it has become one which volution. 73. ADVERSITY a blessing. The springs at the base of the Alpine Mountains are fullest and many reckon dangerous."-Carlyle's French Refreshest when the summer sun has dried and parched the verdure in the valleys below. The heat that has burned the arid plains has melted mountain glacier and snow, and increased the volume of the mountain streams. Thus, when adversity has dried the springs of earthly comfort and hope, God's great springs of salvation and love flow freshest and fullest to gladden the heart.-Irish Congregational Maga zine. 74. ADVERSITY a probation. James Douglas, son of the banished Earl of Angus, afterwards well known by the title of Earl of Morton, lurked during the exile of his family in the north of Scotland, under the assumed name of James Innes, otherwise James the Grieve (ie., Reve or Bailiff). "And as he bore the name," says Godscroft, "so did he also execute the office of a grieve or overseer of the lands and rents, the corn and cattle, of him with whom he lived." From the habits of frugality and observation which he acquired in his humble situation, the historian traces that intimate acquaintance with popular character which enabled him to rise so high in the State, and that honourable economy by which he repaired and established the shattered estates of Angus and Morton.-Sir Walter Scott. 75. ADVERSITY a purifier. God often uses adversity as a purifier. The wintry snows that lie 79. ADVERSITY, Friends in. To-day Colonel C. came to dine with us, and in the midst of our meal we were entertained with a most agreeable sight. It was a shark, about the length of a man, which followed our ship, attended with five smaller fishes, called pilot-fish, much like our mackerel, but larger. These, I am told, always keep the shark company, and, what is more surprising, though the shark is so ravenous a creature, yet, let it be never so hungry, it will not touch one of them. they less faithful to him; for, as I am informed, if the shark is hooked, very often these little creatures will cleave close to his fins, and are often taken up with him.-Go to the pilot-fish, thou that forsakest a friend in adversity, consider his ways, and be ashamed.-Whitefield, "Journal." Nor are 80. ADVERSITY, God's purpose in. A worthy estate, and who lived in ease and plenty on his man whom God had prospered in his outward farm, suffered the world to encroach so much upon his affections as sensibly to diminish the ardour of his piety. The disease was dangerous, and Providence adopted severe measures for its cure. First, his wife was removed by death, but he still remained worldly-minded. Then a beloved son; but, although the remedy operated favourably, it did not effect a cure. Then his crops failed and his lecting his powers, said proudly, "No! this right cattle died; still his grasp on the world was not un-hand shall work it all off!"-Cockburn, "Memoirs." loosed. Then God touched his person, and brought on him a lingering, fatal disease; the world, however, occupied still too much of his thoughts. His house finally took fire, and as he was carried out of the burning building he exclaimed, "Blessed be God, I am cured at last!" He died happily shortly afterwards.-New Cyclopædia of Anecdote. 81. ADVERSITY, God's purpose in. The four seasons once determined to try which could quickest reach the heart of a stone. Spring coaxed the stone with its gentle breezes, and made flowers encircle it, and trees to shoot out their branches and embower it, but all to no purpose. The stone remained indifferent to the beauties of the spring, nor would it yield its heart to its gentle caresses. Summer came next, and caused the sun to shine on the stone, hoping to melt its obdurate heart; but though the surface of the stone grew warm, it quickly became cold again when not under the influence of the summer sun's rays. Summer thus being unable by any degree of warmth to penetrate the finty nature of the stone, gave place to autumn. Believing that the stone had been treated with too much kindness, the autumn withered the flowers and stripped the trees of their leaves, and threatened and blustered, but still the stone remained impas sive. Winter came next. First it sent strong winds, which laid the stone bare, then it sent a cold rain, and next a sharp frost, which cleaved the stone and laid bare its heart. So many a heart, which neither gentleness, warmth, nor threats can touch, is reached by adversity.-Freeman. I 82. ADVERSITY, Growth in the face of. have seen a tree proudly crowning the summit of a naked rock, and there, with its roots spread out over the bare stone, and sent down into every cranny in search of food, it stood securely moored to the stormy crag. I have wondered how it could grow up there, starved on the bare, naked rock, and how it had survived the rough nursing of many a winter blast. Yet, like some neglected, ragged child, who from early infancy has been familiar with adversities, it has lived and grown and held itself erect on its weather-beaten crag when the pride of the valley has bent to the storm; like men who, scorning to yield, bravely nail their colours to the mast, there it maintains its defiant position, and keeps its green flag waving on nature's rugged battlements. -Guthrie. 83. ADVERSITY, How to bear. But look look at these books [original manuscripts of several of Scott's novels]. I think that the most precious of all is this. It is "Woodstock." Scott was writing this book when the news of his ruin came upon him. Do you see the beautiful handwriting? Now look, as I turn towards the end. Is the writing one jot less beautiful? Or are there more erasures than before? That shows how a man can and should bear adversity.—Ruskin (in a conversation). 84. ADVERSITY, How to meet. Some of his friends offered him [Sir Walter Scott], or rather proposed to offer him, enough of money, as was supposed, to enable him to arrange with his creditors. He paused for a moment, and then, recol 85. ADVERSITY, Influence of. I suppose it is adversity that develops the kindly qualities of our nature. I believe the sense of common degradation has a tendency to make the degraded amiable-at in the plantations in slave-gangs.— Lord Beaconsfield. least among themselves. I am told it is found so 86. ADVERSITY must be prepared for. A certain traveller who had a distance to go, one part of the road leading through green fields, and the other through a tangled road of brambles and thorns, made great preparations for the first part of his journey. He dressed himself in light and gay clothes, and put a nosegay in his bosom, and taking a light, slender cane in his hand, nimbly proceeded meadows. The sun shone in the skies, and on went on his way along the beaten path across the green the traveller, comfortably, pleasantly, and delightfully. After a while the road became rugged, and by the time night drew on the traveller was in a pitiable plight. His provisions were exhausted, his clothes wet through and partly torn from his back by the briars, his flowers were faded, and, weary as he was, his slender cane could not bear his weight; a stream of water was before him, and darkness was around him. "Alas!" said he, smiting his breast, "I am hungry, and have no food; wet to no staff to rest on; I have a stream to cross, and the skin, and have no dry clothes; weary, and have here is no boat; I am bewildered, and have no guide; it is dark, and I have no lantern. Fool that I am! why did I not provide for the end of my journey as well as the beginning?" Time is hastening away. We are all travellers. Life is the beginning, death the end of our journey.— Biblical Museum. 87. ADVERSITY, Need of a courageous guide in. The best commander is the man who has graduated by steps from the capstan, and who by practice knows the use of bowlines, and marlins, and cat-heads, and top-gallants. Said the late Charles Dickens to me, "I am never 'afraid to cross the ocean when I know the captain to be a man who knew the uses of adversity. Sea-sickness is nothing to heart-sickness. I do not want a man to guide my vessel through the storm, and the tempest, and the midnight, and the fog-night who came down the companion-way without touching a baluster. I want an Ajax who has defied the lightning; one that can dance when the elements make a giant weep."-Rev. A. W. Atwood. Grecian 88. ADVERSITY not always an evil. mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have often noticed in life that the brightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual life have been struck out by the iron-shod hoof of disaster and calamity.-Talmage. 89. ADVERSITY, Training of. The Archbishop of Canterbury, on taking leave of Mr. Henson, the original of "Uncle Tom," complimented him on his correctness in speaking the English language, and asked him at what seminary he had been educated. Uncle Tom's reply was pertinent enough under the circumstances—“At the University of Adversity." -B. |