be found in every sect and priesthood under heaven. He will be rather surprised to find in the sect and priesthood with which he is connected, the self-same vices which he was taught from his childhood to believe were confined exclusively to another sect. He will be astonished to discover, that nearly all that he has said and written against a certain religious denomination, might, with slight variations, be said and written of his own denomination and priesthood. His discovery will teach him a lesson respecting the force of prejudice, and the necessity of proving all things for one's self.

29.-Another preacher, who has long been praying to God for clearer and fuller views of truth, will be startled to find that now, when clearer light and fuller views of truth are granted to him, he is placed in such a position in consequence, that he must either put his light under a bushel, and close his eyes to those fuller views of truth, or bring upon himself the suspicion of heresy and infidelity, and expose himself to all the trials of desertion, persecution, and treachery. Little do men think what they are praying for, when they pray for spiritual light. Little do they know how great the trials which an increase of spiritual light brings with it. No man should ask for light, who is not prepared for desertion, reproach, and persecution. No man should wish to be wise, who is not prepared to make himself a sacrifice for God, for truth, and for humanity. It was not in vain that an ancient teacher advised those that proposed to become his disciples, to 'COUNT THE COST. Still, happy is the man who is favoured with light, who beholds the truth, provided he be faithful. Great are his trials; but greater shall be his joys, if he acquit himself like a man. Many and grievous will be his losses; but infinitely richer will be his gains. Fierce and protracted will be his conflicts; but glorious will be his victories, and eternal his rewards.

The excesses of youth are drafts upon old age, payable thirty years after date, with interest.

Life discloses many painful pictures, but none more distressing than a scene of domestic love blighted by intemperance.Thomas Beggs.

William Hutton, of Birmingham, says, in one of his works: The reader will be surprised when I tell him, that during my stay in Scarbro', I never tasted porter, ale, tea, coffee, wine, or any kind of liquors, and yet, at four score, I can with ease walk thirty miles a day.'

New Way of explaining an Old Saying.

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One of our early writers observes, that He who goes to persuade people that they are badly governed, will generally have numerous and attentive hearers.' We believe this writer to be correct. And one reason why those who go about to persuade people that they are badly governed, will have numerous and attentive audiences is, that they have truth on their side. Hitherto, people generally have been badly governed; very badly governed. I know no nation which has not had reason to complain of its governors. I know no nation which has not now reason to complain of its governors. Most nations have very great reason to complain of their governors. I question whether any country is better governed than the United States of America; yet even the governors of that country have given cause of complaint to many. 1. They have given cause of complaint, in the first place, to three millions of black and coloured people, whom they have doomed to all the horrors and miseries of slavery. 2. They have given just cause of complaint to the free-coloured people of the states by shutting them out from the privileges of citizens. 3. They have given just cause of complaint to the people generally, by granting superior power in elections to slave-holders, throwing the principal power of the government into their hands. 4. They have given just cause of complaint to every man in the states, that is not entirely inhuman, by obliging him either to leave his country, or to remain in a land where millions of his brethren are used as brutes, and where numbers more are treated with insolence and indignity, and by employing the public wealth to uphold this evil. 5. They have given just cause of complaint to the Indians, whom they have deprived of their lands without a fair remuneration, and frequently deprived even of their lives. 6. They have given just cause of complaint to the country at large, by the war in which they have lately engaged, and by the expenses they have in consequence brought on the people, and by the offices and patronage which they have created, and by the disgrace which they have brought upon their country. It is plain then, that even in AMERICA, the man that should go about to persuade the people that they were badly governed, might reasonably expect to have numerous and attentive hearers, provided he were himself a wise, a honest, and a clever man; for even he might have truth on his side; even he might say much against the governors of his country without exceeding the bounds of truth.

But in our country things are far worse? Our governors

are amongst the most criminal governors upon earth. They are, in the first place, amongst the most dishonest, hypocritical, unjust, and inhuman of governors; and they are, in the second place, thus faulty in the midst of more light than has been granted to most other governors. The man that shall go about in this country to persuade people that they are badly governed, may talk for weeks, and months, and even years together of the wickedness of the Government, of the partiality and iniquity of our laws, of the oppressive and injurious character of our public institutions, of the deeds of robbery and cruelty of which the government is constantly guilty ;-I say he might talk for years on these subjects, and never exceed the truth. He might tell some of the blackest and most horrible stories that ever ear listened to, or that ever heart trembled under, and yet keep within the bounds of truth. He might draw the most appalling and affecting pictures of distress and ruin, and charge them on the wicked deeds of the Government, and yet never be chargeable with exceeding the bounds of moderation. The greatest plunderers upon earth, the most inhuman and unnatural of men, have hardly been guilty of darker, or of more extravagant and outrageous deeds of robbery and cruelty, than the Governments of this country.

Let the governors of nations learn wisdom, and begin to act justly, and then the men who go about to persuade people that they are badly governed, will not find it so easy to gain large and attentive audiences. If governors do not wish the bad tales told of them to be believed, let them act in such a manner as to prove them false. They never can prove the hard things that are spoken of Governments to be false with respect to Governments past or Governments present, but they may prove them false, so far as they themselves are concerned, with respect to the future. Let them follow the course marked out for them by justice and humanity, and then the men who will gain the most numerous and attentive audiences will be the men that shall speak in their praise. The people delight to hear a story of just and generous deeds, when they see good reason to believe it to be true. Faulty and defective as most men are, they still delight to hear of goodness. There are few whose hearts will not throb, whose souls will not swell, and whose eyes will not shed the generous tear, when they hear of men who have sacrificed themselves for the good of their fellow-creatures, who have done justice to the poor and oppressed, or who have risked reputation and caste, in obedience to the claims of justice and humanity.

KILLING TYRANTS, ETC.

It is not near so bad for oppressed and plundered men to shoot their tyrants, as it is for tyrants to oppress and plunder the poor. Yet the newspapers generally make ten times more to do about a tyrant thief and murderer being shot by famishing and desperate men, than they do about thousands and scores of thousands being robbed of their all by those tyrants, and driven by them into their graves, or into foreign lands.

Whenever an Irish landlord is shot, the newspapers labour to make the impression that he was one of the kindest and best of men; one of the most liberal and generous of landlords: yet it generally happens that these same papers furnish information tending to show, that those murdered landlords were 1 selfish, grasping, eruel, inhuman,-that they were men who cared for nothing but their own pleasure and profit, and who I would sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands to attain their selfish objects. I hate the newspaper press of this country. The newspapers are, in general, the engines of oppression and tyranny. Their object and endeavour is to uphold the wrong against the right. There are two or three exceptions, but the general run of newspapers are about anything but what they ought to be.

I am sorry myself that the Irish shoot their tyrants. There is, in my judgment, a better way of dealing with them. But I confess that I am less troubled when I hear of a tyrant being shot, than I am when I hear of a hundred or a thousand poor families being forced from the estate where their forefathers lived, where their ancestors lie buried, and where they themselves, by their own hard labour, have made the bog or the wilderness into a fruitful field. I should be less troubled to hear that the earth had opened and swallowed up all the selfish landlords and plundering aristocrats in the kingdom, than I am to hear of such multitudes being driven from their country to seek homes amongst the wildernesses of America, or, what is still worse, reduced to such absolute poverty as to be forced to stay at home and endure the horrors of starvation. I do not wish ill to any land-monopolist or aristocratic tyrant upon the face of the earth, but I do wish, and that most devoutly, that their power were broken, that their property were brought into the public market, and that the Government of this country were taken out of their hands, and placed in the hands of more enlightened or more honourable men.

Happy is he who considers water the best drink.-Dr. Paris.

Dear Friend,

The Doctor's Department.

CASE. No. 1.

I have a sister that is very unwell. Her tongu appears to have the shaking fever. It is almost alway going, and you would be astonished at the noise it makes. And it is exceedingly hot. It burns almost every thing it touches It shakes off words without end, with scarcely any sense. Sh has laboured under this complaint for a long time now. I causes her great trouble at times; and, strange as it may seem gives other people often more pain than it gives even her. I you could prescribe for her anything that would do her good you would very much oblige

DEAR SIR,

Yours respectfully,

PRESCRIPTION.

B. C.

I would recommed your sister to be very abste mious in her way of living. She ought never to eat till she is hungry; never to drink till she is dry; and always to give over before she is thoroughly satisfied. This fasting will tend to make her considerate, and will abstract a portion of the heat from her tongue. I would also recommend that she take up a good book every day, and read for two or three hours. The contents of good books have a very salutary influence upon the inoral system generally. They cool unnatural heats, and remove nnnatural chills. They increase the life and power of the system, but moderate it at the same time, and distribute it equally throughout the whole frame. They have also frequently a cathartic or purgative tendency. Great truths and moral principles, in passing through the mind, purge away bad humours, and tend to free the benevolent, the social, and the religious affections from obstructions. When your sister is not reading, she ought to employ herself in tolerably hard labour. Working is one of the best things for those complaints under which your sister appears to be labouring. It expends all superfluous life and spirits, and so prevents them from running to the diseased part, and coming forth in the shape of firebrands, sparks and smoke. I would not have her to confine herself to the house; but until her tongue is considerably improved, I would recommend that she walk alone in the green-fields, or along the waterside, where there is nothing that she is in danger of setting on fire. This will promote consideration, which is as important and as necessary in such