the works that are done under the sun, and and vexation of spirit; that which is cro straight, and that which is wanting cann TIMOTHY ROGERS: A Discourse concerni p. 327.

Deep and profound research, it would faith, and staggers the belief of the pures truths of Revealed religion.

WATTS, on Everlasting Punishment, i second volume of his discourses on the wo "Were I to pursue my inquiries into t the lights of nature and reason, I fear m might warp me aside from the rules an justice, and wise and holy government of

"I must confess here, if it were possil blessed God any other way to vindicate unchangeable hatred of sin, the inflexible ment, the wisdom of his severe threateni of his predictions; if it were also possible terrible execution, to vindicate the ver wisdom of the prophets and apostles, and the greatest and chiefest of his divine m if the blessed God should at any time, his glorious and incomprehensible perfo wretched creatures from their acute pain ment in hell, either with a design of the their beings by annihilation, or to put known world, upon a new foot of trial; I fully and joyfully to accept this appoint good of millions of my fellow-creatures, a praises to all the songs and triumphs of th the day of such a divine and glorious relea "But I feel myself under a necessity of utterly unable to solve these difficulties coveries of the New Testament."

This is the absurd labyrinth into which

sowest is not quickened except it die." (1 Cor. ver. 6.) That is to say, that we are not in this stat to comprehend the mysteries of Divine wisdom; and capacity will not be quickened in the soul until after Nor will reflection, time, or solitude overcome the perplexities.

"Such as live in prison, or some desert place, an have company, as many of our country gentlemen do i houses, they must either be alone without companion beyond their means, and entertain all comers as so ma or else converse with their servants and hinds, su unequal, inferior to them, and of a contrary dispo else, as some do, avoid solitariness, spend their time fellows in taverns and ale-houses, and thence addict t to some unlawful disports, or dissolute courses.' Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 88.

Another marvelous feature in our eccentric natu the emanations of genius seem to be original, and ir of parentage, blood, or moral destiny.

"Columbus was the son of a weaver, and a weave Rabelais son of an apothecary. Claude Lorraine w pastry-cook. Molière son of a tapestry-maker. Cervan as a common soldier. Homer was a beggar. Hesio son of a small farmer. Demosthenes of a cutler. Te a slave. Richardson was a printer. Oliver Cromwe of a brewer. Howard an apprentice to a grocer. Franklin a journeyman printer. Dr. Thomas, Bisho cester, son of a linen draper. Daniel Defoe was a h Whitfield son of an inn-keepe cester. Sir Cloudesly Shovel, rear-admiral of Englar apprentice to a shoemaker, and afterwards a cabin boy Prideaux worked in the kitchen at Exeter College Cardinal Wolsey son of a butcher. Ferguson was a Niebuhr was a peasant. Thomas Paine son of a stay Thetford. Dean Tucker was the son of a small farm diganshire, and performed his journey to Oxford on i mund Halley was the son of a soap-boiler at Shoreditel

the son of a butcher.

Hall Rishon of Norwich son of a farmer at Ashhu de

apprentice to a silk mercer. Dr. Samuel a bookseller at Litchfield. Akenside son

castle.

Collins son of a hatter. Samuel B Ben Jonson worked some time as a brickla was a ploughman in Ayrshire. Thomas sexton at Radcliff church, Bristol. Thoma of a money-scrivener. Matthew Prior son of Henry Kirke White son of a butcher at N field and Gifford were shoemakers. Addison and Canning were sons of clergymen. Po clerk. The mechanic arts especially have of the contributions which their pursuits, lea and practical exercise of the intellectual f to the glorious constellation of talent which world."-New York Star.

And although genius is of celestial origi our best attributes, yet its fate is a mournf the transient light which beams from huma

"Homer was a beggar, Plautus turned a slave, Boethius died in jail; Paul Borghes ferent trades, and yet starved with them a distressed for 5s.; Bentevoglio was refused hospital he had himself erected; Cervante Camoens, the celebrated writer of The Lus in an almshouse; and Vaugelas left his body pay his debts as far as it would go. In our lived a life of meanness and distress; Sir V on the scaffold; Spenser, the charming Sp and in want; the death of Collins came th causing mental derangement:

"Each lonely scene shall thee restore

For thee the tear be duly shed; Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd tho' Pity's self be

"Milton sold his copyright of Paradise L

perfect warfare with bailiffs; Goldsmith's Vicar of
was sold for a trifle, to save him from the gripe of
Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English f
Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died
at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of £8; Bu
in
penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of ge
misfortune, destroyed himself!"

All men bow to the acknowledged truth and beauty of but follow the lurking impulses of passion. Even th and beautiful precepts, however loved and admired, a cally unheeded and neglected. The laws of God, and tates of common prudence, are alike forgotten, and man floats down upon the stream of time, heedless, thought self-willed.

EXTRACTS FROM BULWER.

"Never chase a lie, for, if you keep quiet, truth will ev overtake and destroy it.

"Never trust a person who solicits your confidence, probability, he will betray you.

"If you want to make a fool of a man, first see if easily flatter him, and if you can succeed, your purpos gained.

"Secure the approbation of the aged, and you will confidence, if not the love, of the young.

"Our affections and our pleasures resemble those trees described by St. Oderie; the fruits which they bri are no sooner ripened into maturity than they are tra into birds and fly away.

"By examining the tongue of the patient, physici out the disease of the body, and philosophers the disea mind.

“There is nothing that a vicious man will not do t virtuous! He loves nothing so well as his mask. I hav persons who in four weeks have not changed shirts; have nevertheless put on a clean collar daily, that t appear clean.

66 A man of an

onen

character naturally discovers h

The quotations from WATTS and oth

work, contain the pith and strength of ref tellects upon the points noticed; and are this as for the purpose of showing that t point out the wayside signals of human in

The depravities, eccentricities, and follic up for scorn, but for pity; not for ridic reflection; not in a spirit of criticism and it were to thrust the mirror of man's inm luctant gaze, and force him to pause and deformities; to expose the hidden elemen that swell his vile and wicked heart; t judgment and conscience are beguiled and passions and brutal propensities; how he what he sees and thinks was never know courages vanity, self-will, jealousy, suspic and infidelity; how he would doom himse ignorance, lust, and superstition; how ho refuses to admire and adore the glorious t turous inspirations poured in upon him f heavens, and every fragrant grove and golden Paradise of God.

And thus the wayward contrarieties of with ills and sorrow of his own creation profaned by debauchery; diseased and h ted; health, honor, and self-respect defied are squandered; debts unnecessarily and f brutal impulses wantonly indulged; and ruin are madly rushed on.

Blind man, mysterious and ungoverna and still led blindly on to do it; thy be love and truth; thy wicked heart, on mis harmony of thought and action; fierce. butes, baffling and frustrating analogy, r protection, and knowing nothing beyond generate choice; looming and weaving f fatal destiny for life and death,

The warn and woof of huma