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The bird that soars on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth most sweetly sing

Sings in the shade when all things rest:
In lark and nightingale we see
What honour hath humility.

When Mary chose the "better part,"
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet;

And Lydia's gently-opened heart,

Was made for God's own temple meet:

Fairest and best adorned is she,

Whose clothing is humility.

The saint that wears heaven's brightest crown,

In deepest adoration bends;

The weight of glory bows him down,

Then most, when most his soul ascends;

Nearest the throne itself must be

The footstool of humility.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE.

JUSTICE, 1. The virtue by which we give every man what is his due; 2. Punishment; 3. Right.

JOHNSON.

That essential perfection in God whereby he is infinitely righteous and just, both in his nature and in all his proceedings with his creatures. CRUDEN.

Justice and judgment are the habitations of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

INJUSTICE; iniquity; wrong.

PSALM LXXXix. 14.

Not for any injustice in mine hands.

JOHNSON.

JOB XVI. 17.

Jus or Juris, in Latin, means law or right, and from this root are derived a great number of words now used; among which are JUST; JUSTICE; INJUSTICE, &c. Judex or Judicis, the Latin for a judge, is composed of Jus, law; and Dico, to tell; whence we derive JUDGMENT; JUDICATURE; JUDICIOUS; INJUDICIOUS; ADJUDICATE, and many other words. See PREJUDdice. A just man is one who is upright and sincere in his actions and dealings with others; and also one who is

faithful, keeping his word and promise. Of Joseph of Arimathea, it is said, that "he was a good man and a just," (Luke xxiii. 50,) and unto him was the body of our Saviour granted by Pilate. The scripture abounds in examples of just as well as of unjust men; of the rewards and blessings showered upon the one character, and of the punishments and curses with which the other was visited. SOLOMON tells us that

The path of the just is as the shining light.

PROV. IV. 18.

Blessings are upon the head of the just.

PROV. X. 6.

The memory of the just is blessed. PROVERBS x. 7.
There shall no evil happen to the just.

PROVERBS XII. 21.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them; for this is the law and the prophets.-(Our Saviour's Sermon on the Mount.)

Human laws are often so numerous as to escape our memories; and sometimes so darkly and inconsistently worded, as to puzzle and embarrass our understandings. But here is a law attended with none of these inconveniences; the grossest minds can scarce misapprehend it, and the weakest memories are capable of retaining it. Nor can there be any one so absurd and unreasonable, as not to see and acknowledge the absolute equity of this command in theory, however he may swerve and decline from it in his practice, and to agree upon it as that golden mean, which, if universally observed, would make the world universally happy, every man a benefactor to his fellow-creatures, and earth the very image of heaven. ATTERBURY.

A sense of justice should be the foundation of all our social qualities. In our most early intercourse with the world, and even in our most youthful amusements, no unfairness should be found. That sacred rule of doing all things to others according as we wish they should do unto us, should be engraved on our minds. For this end, we should impress ourselves with a deep sense of the 'original and natural equality of man. DR. BLAIR.

To do justice, and to give birth to the persuasion that justice is done, are two very different things, which, if possible, ought to be united; the latter object cannot always be successfully accomplished, but the attempt should never be neglected.

LORD LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbour-nations as between neighbour-citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single, and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. FRANKLIN.

PENN'S ADVICE TO HIS CHILDREN.-And as for you who are likely to be concerned in the government of Pennsylvania and my parts of East Jersey, I do charge you before the Lord God, and his holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender; fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss protect no man against it, for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God sees you therefore do your duty, and be sure you see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears. Entertain no spies, cherish no informers, for gain or revenge; use no tricks, fly to no devices to support or cover injustice; but let your hearts be upright before the Lord, trusting in him above the contrivances of men, and none shall be able to hurt or supplant.

Frail creatures are we all, that we should sit
In judgment man on man! and what were we,
If the all-merciful should mete to us
With the same rigorous measure wherewithal
Sinner to sinner metes! Children are we
Of one great Father, in whatever clime
Nature or chance hath cast the seeds of life,
All tongues, all colours: neither after death
Shall we be sorted into languages

And tints,-white, black, and tawny, Greek and Goth,

Northmen and offspring of hot Africa;

The all-Father, he in whom we live and move,
He the impartial Judge of all, regards

Nations, and hues, and dialects alike,

According to their works shall they be judged,
When even-handed Justice in the scale

Their good and evil weighs. All creeds, I ween,
Agree in this, and hold it orthodox.

SOUTHEY.

LOVE, PHILANTHROPY, &c.

LOVE. Kindness; good-will; friendship; tenderness; fondness; concord; principle of union. JOHNSON.

LOVE is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the universe. Love is such an affection as cannot properly be said to be in the soul, as the soul to be in that; it is the whole man wrapt up into one desire. SOUTH.

LOVE is a gracious principle or habit, wrought in the soul by God, which inclines us to delight in, esteem, and earnestly desire to enjoy an interest in God's favour and communion with him, as our chief good portion and happiness, and the fountain of all perfection and excellency; and which likewise disposes us to do good to all, especially to such as resemble God in holiness, and bear his image. CRUDEN.

The word LovE is believed to be derived from the Saxon; in which language Leof signifies beloved; from the same root we have also LOVING; LOVELY; LOVELINESS, the same words with the prefix IN, and several others. The Greek for BELOVED is Philos, from the verb Phileo, I love; and from this root is derived PHILANTHROPY, love of mankind, Anthropos being the Greek for man; PHILOSOPHY, and all words beginning with PHILO, come likewise from this root, as well as some others, one of which PHILADELPHIA, compounded of Philos, and Adelphos, a brother, signifying literally brotherly love; this is the very appropriate name given to a city of America, by the founder WILLIAM PENN, which was originally inhabited by members of the Society of Friends.

A transient temporary good nature is not that Philanthropy, that love of mankind, which deserves the title of a moral virtue.

ADDISON.

THE TRUE PHILANTHROPIST is he who diffuses the most happiness and mitigates the most distress within his own circle; he is undoubtedly the best friend to his country and the world, since nothing more is necessary,. than for all men to imitate his conduct, to make the greatest part of the misery of the world cease in a ROBERT HALL.

moment.

The limited resources of the Christian philanthropist, compared with the number and diversity of objects, soliciting his aid, renders selection indispensably necessary. On the one hand, he must not confine his regards to objects purely religious, though of the loftiest and most comprehensive order, to the neglect of that charity which draws out his soul to the hungry, and which visits the fatherless and widow in their affliction; and on the other, he must not limit his attention to the wants of life that now is, and remain an uninterested spectator of the efforts which are made around him to save a world from perdition. The two classes of objects should be combined in his regards. By descending to the one class, he will be keeping his benevolent feelings in a healthy, active, and vigorous state; and by ascending to the other, he will be giving them scope and expansion, diffusing and multiplying them over the whole field of mercy. By a wise distribution of his means, he may connect himself with all the objects of beneficence, from the casual relief of the mendicant, to the combined, systematic, and mighty project of the Christian church, to make the Bible the book of the world. And as he marks the graduated scale of Christian charities which stand between these two extremes, he will conscientiously consider which are the charities that call for his especial aid, and the propor tion of support which each demands.

HARRIS' MAMMON.

HOWARD THE PHILANTHROPIST.-I cannot name John Howard without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur; not to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection

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