ALE AND BEER MEASURes. AT school little girls and boys learn lessons about how many inches make a foot; how many ounces make a pound; and how many farthings make a penny. One day, when the lesson was the table called "Ale and Beer Measure," a little boy, remarkable for the correct manner in which he usually said all his lessons, was quite unprepared with an answer. "How is this, John?" said his teacher. "I thought it was of no use, sir," said John. "No use!" interrupted the master. 66 No, sir; it's ale and beer measure," said John, in a very respectful manner. "I know it is," said the master. "Well, sir," said the little boy, "father and I both think it is of no use to learn about ale and beer, as we never mean to buy, sell, or drink it."-Temperance Anecdotes. THOUGHTS UPON THOUGHTS. BY THE "Man may say, My Reason; but give him credit for never having said, My Truth." Cousin.-Reason is a part and parcel of man's organisation. He would not be man without it. Hence he may say, My Reason. But Truth is as far from man as light from darkness; as hell from heaven. Truth is a deposit of God in Nature and the Bible. He has placed it in these, as He has placed minerals in the bowels of the earth and caloric in coals. He who would find truth must go in search of it with both eyes open and with persistent energies. He must expect to be disappointed in many instances. What he thinks is truth may turn out to be its ghost only. Like pearls and precious stones, he will not find it so much on the surface as in the depths. Hid in darkness, mixed up with mounds of refuse, when he lightens upon it, it will show itself by its intrinsic brilliancy and solidity. Seeing it flash in his eyes, he will say, "This is it, I have found it;" and will rejoice as one that has found great spoil. EDITOR. SILENT GRIEF. "The Painters covered Agamemnon's grief for Iphigenia with a veil of silence.' Such is the feeling sometimes in the presence of certain events and circumstances that silence is the only expression that can be given of it. Have we not seen it in the case of a mother losing her much-loved child? a husband his endeared wife? a wife her husband? Other circumstances, too, have occurred in respect to which the feeling has been so deep that only silence could show it. Has not one sometimes gone to sympathise with others in certain events that have taken place to them, when our grief for them has been dumb? No words we had could express it. We have sat, locked, thought, and gone away. We have thought silence our wisdom. "A man that is under the power of any lust, can desire nothing but the satisfying of that lust." Siobes.-Thus the miser under the love of gold, desires nothing more than gold; and to obtain it, will live in wretchedness and starvation. The drunkard, under the love of drink, will spend his money, ruin his health and character, and reduce his family to rags and beggary to obtain it. So it is with the gambler, the lover of pleasure, the adulterer, the glutton; each sets his mind on his respective gratification, and at any cost will obtain it. VACCILLATION. "The chameleon, saith Iliny, is the most fearful of all creatures, and doth therefore turn into all colours to save itself; and so it is often with weak Christians." Thomas Brooks.-Alas, how true this is! Conformity to this world is too often occurrent, although rigidly forbidden by the Word of God. "When at Rome, you must do as Rome does," is a maxim which is too much observed in the ways of Christians. For fear of being singular; or, for fear of being laughed at; or, for fear of being thought odd and peculiar; or, for fear of giving offence, many so-called Christians take the opinion, or wear the dress, or adopt the fashion, or chime in with the custom of the world around them. But it is foolish policy. They only gain the ridicule of the world, and bring reproach on the religion of Christ. One difference betwixt a wise man and a fool is, that a wise man considers his end, and frames his life suitable thereunto." Sibbes. I have read the story of a king who gave a staff to his fool, with the command that he was to deliver it up when he met with a greater fool than himself. The time came for the king to die. He sent for his fool to see him, and he told him he was going on a journey and had made no preparation. "Here," said the fool, is the staff which you commanded me to give up when I met with one greater than myself.' 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