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ple made with hands, into the open temple illuminated by the beautiful light of a bright summer's day, and carpeted with flowers, he said to himself: "It cannot be that he who made this world so beautiful is the same that the preacher has been presenting to us ;" and the dreadful impressions were softened or effaced altogether. He who told the story, disapproved the conclusion the young man arrived at, and said that God who made the sunshine made also the storms; and that as his mercy might be inferred from the one, so might his wrath from the other. Those who believe in the harmony of all things proceeding from the Great Creator, will be slow to admit that there can be any want of correspondence between his works and his written word, so that the effect of the one will ever be to counteract that of the other, properly interpreted.

CHAPTER VII.

TRAVELLING.

THE invention of railroads has made us a nation of travellers; and since so much of our life is to be spent upon the road, it becomes quite important to know how travelling may be rendered most profitable and most pleasant, and to adopt some rules for our guidance in this respect. In the first place, I advise you to make up your mind before leaving home, to encounter a good deal, not only of inconvenience, but of positive discomfort; to meet with much that is offensive in one way and another, and determine that you will bear it patiently, and avoid making yourself disagreeable by a perpetual spirit of complaint. The unreasonableness of a child who cries because he can't have the moon for a plaything, is hardly greater than that of travellers, who are excessively annoyed because they cannot travel in their own houses, and so take all their home comforts with them. I once stopped a night at a principal hotel in one of our cities, where a chambermaid, whose manners were kindly and pleasing, provided me with a very nice bedroom,

and made me as comfortable as possible. I had been profoundly asleep for about two hours, when she awakened me, to say that my room had been previously engaged for a bride, whose arrival was not expected until the following day, who had come, however, at midnight, and was so much displeased at the room substituted for this, that her vituperation had awakened all the sleepers in the same corridor. Would I, she asked, for the peace of the house, consent to change my quarters? I replied that I would do so for her sake, because she had been so very attentive to me. I could but pity the poor man who had taken such a fool and termagant to be the wife of his bosom, and the mother of his children.

There are certain defects of temper, and disagreeable qualities of character, that betray themselves under all possible circumstances. People who travel and know what good manners are, may make themselves missionaries in that department, as they may also of the Gospel of love. The rudest person feels the charm of courtesy and kindliness, responding to it in the best way he can. It very rarely, if ever, occurs that any advance made, or any favor asked in the right spirit, is rudely repulsed.

In travelling, as under all other circumstances, there should be some practical admission on our part, that we belong to the great human family,

and regard mankind as our brethren. We should, therefore, be always considerate of others, not standing aloof, as if we were "worthier" on account of our class or position, than they among whose ranks the Saviour was born; or as if we could not tolerate certain deficiencies, marking many of that to which we ourselves belong.

A friend of mine was travelling, many years ago, in the winter, by stage, from Philadelphia to New York. One very cold night, the stage stopped, the driver opened the door and said, "Gentlemen," (there were about a half a dozen) "there is a colored man on the seat with me who has no overcoat, and I think he will certainly freeze to death, if you do not let him come inside." No; this could not possibly be permitted. My friend, who was the only one in the minority, said, "Well, gentlemen, if you will not let this poor man in, I will at least give him my overcoat," which he accordingly took off and handed to the driver, to be so transferred. The next morning, he received the thanks of him towards whom he had acted the part of the good Samaritan, for having saved, as he believed, his life. By whatever name called, were those others, heathens or Christians?

It happened to me, within the last year, to be travelling in company with an old lady, in her eightieth year, of whom I had charge. There sat before us a woman from the common ranks

of life, with two young children, who had been travelling, she said, for three days and nights, and looked extremely weary and ill. My aged friend, who believed that, unless she could get some rest, she might have a fit of illness, said to her, "If you will go to sleep, I will look after your children." The kind offer was immediately accepted; she leaned back, and her senses were soon fast locked in slumber. Then my friend, before whom she sat, asked me to watch the children, while she held a cushion she carried with her against the poor woman's head, and so we went on, until she awoke, very much refreshed.

Whenever anything offensive in the manners one meets with in travelling, proceeds from ill temper, it is rebuked, and put down most effectually, by something as opposite to itself as possible. If it is the result of mere ignorance of conventional rule, it should be pardoned, and the ignorance, in the latter instance, kindly removed. A case in point, is one mentioned by Miss Sedgwick, who was once applied to, on board a steamboat, by a young woman, to "give her the loan of her hairbrush and comb." She did so; and, when they were brought back, she said, “I will give them to you; they are not things to be borrowed, and you should not have asked for them, my good girl; but now you are welcome to them."

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