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LXXXVII.-SELECTIONS FROM

CHARITY.*

THOUGH I speak with the tongues angels, and have not charity, I am ing brass or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prop stand all mysteries, and all knowledg have all faith, so that I could remov have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods and though I give my body to be bur charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind not; charity vaunteth not itself, is no not behave itself unseemly, seeketh n easily provoked, thinketh no evil; re quity, but rejoiceth in the truth; bea lieveth all things, hopeth all things, en

Charity never faileth; but whether cies, they shall fail; whether there shall cease; whether there be knowle ish away.

For we know in part, and we propE when that which is perfect is come, in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a c

* CHARITY here means LovE, or affectionate re to do good,

I thought as a child; but when I became a taway childish things.

w we see through a glass, darkly; but then ce: now I know in part; but then shall I as also I am known.

w abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; reatest of these is charity.

PROVERBS.

s that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: at maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. s little with fear of the Lord, than great treastrouble therewith.

is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a x and hatred therewith.

t is slow to anger is better than the mighty; hat ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a

mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; and glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. s a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoeceived thereby is not wise.

not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it s color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ast it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an

d name is rather to be chosen than great riches, ng favor rather than silver and gold.

im'-), a basin-shaped mu- | pro h'o-cy, foretelling.

trument struck together in whether, if; whenever. This use of whether is now obsolete.

LXXXVIII. NIAGA

BRAINARD.

JOHN G. C. BRAINARD was born in Connecticut, education at Yale College. Most of his poetic effusi in the newspaper of which he was editor. The fol conception, with the power of graphic expression. that the poet never saw Niagara. He died in 1828

THE thoughts are strange that crow
While I look upward to thee.
It v

As if God poured thee from his holl
And hung his bow upon thine awfu
And spoke in that loud voice which
Who dwelt in Patmos for his Savio
The sound of many waters; and ha
Thy flood to chronicle the ages back
And notch his centuries in the etern

Deep calleth unto deep. And what
That hear the question of that voice
O, what are all the notes that ever
From war's vain trumpet, by thy th
Yea, what is all the riot man can m
In his short life, to thy unceasing ro
And yet, bold babbler, what art tho
Who drowned a world, and heaped t
Above its loftiest mountains?-a li
That breaks, and whispers of its Mal

Patmos (now Patmo), an island in the Grecian island St. John the apostle was exiled in the year

Explain the fourth line.

X. - WHAT THE AIR IS MADE OF.

GEIKIE.

D GEIKIE, an eminent Scottish scientist, was born in Edin5. His studies have been mainly in connection with geology. irst occupant of the chair of Mineralogy and Geology founded rsity of Edinburgh, which position he still holds (1884).

VE and around us, to what part soever of the rface we may go, at the top of the highest as well as at the bottom of the deepest mine, urselves surrounded by the invisible ocean of vapor which we call Air. It must, therefore, e whole planet round as an outer envelope. d in this light, it receives the distinctive name tmosphere, that is, the vapor-sphere, the relouds, rain, snow, hail, lightning, breezes, and

early times men regarded the air as one of the ents out of which the world was made. It is ery long since this old notion disappeared. But well known that the air is not an element, but und of two elements, the gases called nitrooxygen.

various ways chemists have analyzed or decomr into its component elements, but the result is the same; namely, that in every hundred parts ary air there are by weight about seventy-nine gen and twenty-one of oxygen.

ir, when carefully tested, is always found to conmething else than nitrogen and oxygen. Solid s, with various gases and vapors, are invariably

fully constant proportions of the two

5. The presence of vast numbers of the air may be shown by letting a bear through a hole or chink into a dark r of minute motes are then seen driving the beam, as the movements of the air and thither. Such particles are alway air.

6. Could we intercept these dancin amine them with a strong microscope them to consist chiefly of little spec among them there sometimes occu а germs, from which, when they fin place, lowly forms of plants or anim Some diseases appear to spread by me ing and growth of these infinitesima bodies, for they are so small as to p into our lungs, and thus to reach our 7. But far more important than the ents are three invisible substances, tw gases, called respectively ozone and ca the third, the vapor of water.

After a thunder-storm the air may s ceived to have a peculiar smell, which distinctly given off from an electric m ozone, which is believed to be oxygen and very active condition.

8. Ozone promotes the rapid decomp ing animal or vegetable matter, uniting gases, and thus disinfecting and purifyin most abundant where sea-breezes blow,