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UNNOTICED HEROES.
AYoaO* hare their btawomv which wc nu'er Iwliolil
And skici their worlds wlunw lipht is never show n,
Ocean Its treasures of anßoted p-id.
And earth Ucr heroes that are aU unknown.
You meet tlicw as you pass, a::d heed them not;
You may not know what hosts before them fell;
You may not couut the Yiattles they have fought—
The wreaths that erowa them are invisible.
Yet they have louglit ami c*>u<iuered : they have bent
Night alter night beside tlas coach of pain.
They have couffouted scorn and dealh, and lent
Their blood to make the stricken whole again.
They have 'been pilgrims to that desert shiinc
Which S>rrows rears in the bleak realm, Despair;
Oft have tfey struggled in tlut gloomy mine
W here only dust is made the toiler's share.
They have beheld their sweetest hopes decay ;
Oft have they seen their brightest dreams depart;
Have seen their golden idols turned to clay,
And many bear within a broken heart.
Their veiled and mighty scars they ever Iear
Those scar* that lie decp-bnmed into the soul,
Won where the darning eyes of vengeance glare.
And the tumultuous tiros of passion roil.
They have l-eeu victors! tlicy have conquered th Lis
Earth's dreaded ll.uiiiibais could never w:u ;
They have struck down the sword Ambition wields.
And trampled l.u-t and chained the hands of r-Lu.
They have won captives 1 their sweet tones have brought
The erring !>ack to Virtue's flowery path ;
Their own and others' hearts s-nhmission taught
To Hod's high w ill, ar.d smoothed the brow of wrath.
They drink the dregs of trembling ; but their moans
And anguished wails they stitie ia the breast;
They say there is au Ear that hoars their gioans,
And in liis lo use the weary will liud rest.
Want, grief, the scorn of men. on them descend—
They only say it is Hi- righteous will;
With chastened spirits to that will they bend.
Relieving, striv mg. hoping, loving still.
O, ilure are daily martyrdoms that we
Heed not—the sufferers are to us unknown,
lhit angels from the walls of Eden see
How Hioriouaare the laurels tlrey have won!
ifilisctlUitmis.
Pagan Idea of the Divinity.
Nature teaches the existence of a Supreme
l'eitrg', but only as through a glass darkly.-
Mythology, the Pagan theology, is nothing but
a "transcript of human nature, expressed iu
words. The passions which it delineates, are
called gods by the Pagans, and worshipped as
beinsrs ruling the events of the world, and the
actions of man. Philosophers and Christians
pay no homage to a heathen I'anthvon. bnt
speak of it merely as a tbsue of ingenious fic
tions. Probably. Homer did not behove that
the Jove whom he described, was the Sover
eign eternal God. for he assigns a place of
birth to him. Every scholar knows that S o
rates, I'lato, Xenocrates, aud many others,
lom among Pagans, were opjiosed to iuolatry.
One can safely assert, that Homer and his fol
lowers were Deists iu principle, acknow icdg g
one Gvhl alone : otherwise, how could they al
low mortals to defeat Mars iu battle, or Jove
in counsel? Yet this frequently occurs ; but
the common people, in their ignorance, could
not pierce the mist of metaphor,aud learn the
truth that was glistening beyond. It wa-' re
served for Christianity to reveal the nutty of
the Godhead to the w >rld, without distinction
of talent or know ledge. Christ has choseu the
weak, the forsaken, the unknown, aud the ig
norant as heirs of diviue wisdom.
The real Mythological notion of Deity, is
on! v an assemblage of various characters. The
classic theology, was moulded entirely by the
ooets. We must not expect to look lor theol
ogi in a heathen Pantheon, but simply the em
bodiment of human passion Each Deity, in
Mythology, has generally one or two prevail
ing attributes. Jove is the attribute of sover
eignty, dignity and power; Apollo is refine
ment ; aud Mercury is a watch-word of reason
and enterprise. Venus Is the Goddess of
Beauty, Queen of Smiles. Mother of Love,
and Mistress of the Graces and Pleasures
Juno is the ideal image of conjugal solicitude,
often called Jealously,bat her jcaiuusiy is found
ed oo reason ; aud shedispiays her iufiaeuce in
endeavoring to remove from !kt family every
intruder whose designs are not virtoous. N -
tune, the G*xl of the Sea. is emblematic of
eternity, and the other sublime thoughts con
nected with tue troubled or calm deep. Ceres,
the Goudcss of Agriculture, is typical of vege
table nature, whose laws afford instruction
from the loftiest cedar down to the mode-t
lily, which without labor or toil, .-hiues mora
brightly than the most glorious utouarah. Di
ana. tbe chaste goddess, is au cmbietu of fo
toalc sjirituaiity. Mars is the god of battle,
aud the great arbiter of international laws,
•and avecger of broken treaties, (wonhl it not
please his majesty ihe king."or god of tbe lat
tieg, Mars, to vail upon his Fretich majesty;
Louis Napoleoo, tic vmp. ror, ar.d ask fr< :a
him an explanation, why did he violate so
tuaay Lrvaties aud solemn pledges, and aw: g
ujmu him all the wrongs suffered by the lul
jaus trorn the bands of this ptywr I) aud
violated frontiers. V ulcau is the god o! fire,
the euiblcru of hocest iai-or, as well of art,
the friend of the mechanic aud suuth, and the
patrooof tbe elemeutary geaioaof
Vesta is the go*hhvs of the welcome tiraadeor
hearth, she an eaif>K-matic of biHisehoW pie
rity and domestic k>rc ; among the Greeks
her pricstcssv? wi re widows. Beyond Uranus
and Ti'oea. the plilosopbers p'acctt an niv
kiiowit-od, to which as altar was erected at
Athens. IwO first god- were net worshipped
as much as much as the latter Piietry scoot
ed to have chiefly adopted the ttdvc gods ot
the re.gn of Jcuiter Tne uakuoau goo a-s
coufiucd, almost wholly, to the ph.iosophcrs.—
The eoujmou people, ou erecting the altar to
the same, did uot reliuquiah their secondary
idols. >'otwithstanding the teachings ot So
crates. the populace adhered to the worship ot
the Pagan Pautheou. It was reserved lor the
Jews, that degraded and stiff-necked people,
the jest and mark of the scorn of nations, to
introduce the unknown god to the knowledge
of the ignorant classes. When St. Paul, the
great Apostle of the Uautilcn, visited Athens
and proceeded to the Pynx, and casting his
eyes upou Acropolis, that inouotaiu of temples
and statues, and on that city, the field of
shrines, to the Olympian gods, he turned to
his audience and exclaimed : ' Ye uicn of Ath
ens, 1 percieve that in all things you are too 1
superstitious 1" Such a statement as this,
thunderstruck the proud Greeks. The mission
ary of the cross condemned the use of build
ings and images to the Lord of heaven and
earth, lie said that he could even declare to j
them, the unknown God whom they ignorant j
!y worshipped. This announcement was doub- ;
ly astounding to the multitude. St. Paul ad
dressed his preaching chiefly to the ignorant,
and such as were most oppressed by the ex
pense and trouble of heathenish worship and
sacrifices, lie consoled them with an idea of
thel>eity, who required only the consecration
of the heart. From that moment the uufor
-1 tunatc slaves of Polytheism were liberated
from their bonds. Instead of giving their
earnings and the tribute of their labor to a set
of idle priests aud Pythonesses, they preserved
them for their family. St. Paul, who was well
skilled in all the learning of the Greeks, did
not scruple to quote authors of a mythological
nature. In speaking of the Cretans, in the
twelfth verse of the first chapter of the Epis
tle to Titus, he cites a line from Epimenidcs :
" Tne Cretans arc always liars, evil beasts,
slow bellies." He calls Epimenidcs a brother
! prophet, but tLis word here, signifies poet. It
! is evident, that the object of the Apostle was,
| to coulinc the adoration ot the world to one
God. without sacrifices or other inventions of
priest craft. Here we have a fine contrast of i
the mythological aud Christian idea of Divio- i
it v. The former is fictitious, the latter, real :
the one reveals more human passion : the oth
er declares the unknown God and Father in
Heaven. Mythology, as a text book of me
taphors, and figures of speech, is very useful.
In literature and art. mythology, at the ores- '
cut day, confers attractions to the poet, and
the chisseliug of the sculptor.
Mythology, or the Pagan theology, in the
hand's of Homer, was forced to contribute for
the advancement of civilization. The igno- ■
ranee and superstition caused by Paganism, <
was unable to check the progrcssof the mighty i
analysis iu which its Thesopliy was subjected,
flie multitude made sacrifices to retiueinent, j
almost without knowing it. Homer s poems
became objects of adoration, better guarded
than many statues of the gods. His genius
may be considered as the mainspring of Gre
cian talent. Alexander the Great, carried the
Iliad through all his campaigns, preserved in
a golden bos. The consequence of thi< was
that wherever the conqueror proceeded, -the
nations were obliged to become civ or to
pay a tribute. It is ludricoos to sec t e dif
ference between the conquests ot Alexander
and those ot Mahomet. luo former .-pre;..;
civilization, the latter diffused lunatic..-ui, tyr
anny, iguoruuee aud burbam-m, by the sciiue
ter
Let ns cast a glance at the third century
before the Christian era, and watch the pro
gress of the refinement propagated by the he
ro of Maccdou. Ail nations that professed a
love of learning and art, were allowed to re
. taiu the privileges ot Greek citizenship.—
Among the nations that were desiiuuse ; ad
iug civil zatiou we find the Jews. Uudur the
Syro-Macedonian empire the Israelites erected
! colleges in Palestine, aud pursued tue study of
the classics. >Munv Greek cities were bai.t iu
Syria, until the Hellenic language became - >
! common that the Jews themselves adopted it
'in their writings. The influence of these my
riads of native Greeks in the Holy Land must
not be overlooked. Many philosophers from
i Greece cauve and resided around Mt. /ion
Coder litis in A notice the iuvtsligaliou of the
record aof autnjuity was renewed. Public de
i bates were allowed, the temple itself became
n place of dispute. Autioch, a great city tbe
' capito! of Syria, and the third city iu the ,
world, was the principal asylum and resort of i
the followers of Christ, and here they wire
first oatoed Christians. St. Lake and Saint i
Chrysostom were natives of Autioch.
i The advent of Christ not only satisfied the
i expectations of the Jews, but crowned the
! longings of the heathen Sages, t .ugs, audi
prophets, as the Bible asserts.h i! bo t> anx is
'!v awaiting the birth of our Saviour. When
i the Star of Belheihem arose, wise men came
from the East to Jerusale .i, aud visite 1 the iu- 1
, carnation of God the Sou, the infant Il dceui
, cr. lying in a manger.
Homer's works are the earliest example of
i the adaption of mythology to poetry, in a ;
t erarv sense. Before his time, were hymns t >
the goD. bat theo-e were mere Paean eonqwai- -
f trotrs, exciting l no emotion but that of Idol a- j
1 trv. lie machinery, as an assistant to (
art, in revealing these springs of human char
acter and action Though the inference of the
' gods is described as bcn.g open. still the cause
, oppcars to the reason none the less secret an i
I iuvidUe. Iu the brst bo*<k, Ap->l!o desccuds
| to ac .ouipiish the prayer of a priest.
I •- Vn< irjwd. Lite
I AltA ir\* O uNU ty
1. ; a-hi-. the *'•:*- .at a.gnd;
K. n< v<ii. hi- - 'mt -hafts rv>o>Ti.l.
lirvathiujr fr-wnee, a tekhiea s b* sfiivaU,
I Awl darfcwn*. iwth-d 4in.a he h-wJ.
i rik- £>>'! ;u view, Wlf Ufci l tu Ao-uilv kW,
And hissui-. i3> the roati..r.s! fate* Uth.w."
In tlii- dewv'rip;ion, Apollois iutroluc 1 iu j
glowing colors, before the uiind ot the reader, ,
t but at the same time, the Greeks, to wijotn
the object of Apollo's revenge appear equal
lv usuviw ous ami unaware of the vision.—
Horuer in fact guides the death olow to t.:o
'divinityof the Pagan Deitv. by rendering
them the there eoblftus of human passion, oc
natural action. opioevd a..J often defeated by
j mortal*.— IVrutt* f:r ike Jr.:
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Practical Advice.
HOW CAN A MECHANIC HE CERTAIN OF SHOCKS*.
First lot him enter a trade for which ho has
a love. Thou, let him resolve that he will be
content with no subordinate position in that
trade. Let him consider that t lie first duty
that he owes to himself is to make himself em
inent in his avocation, and make everything
bend to the attainment of that eminence.—
TYheu he has succeeded in this, constant em
ployment, high wages, aud finally competence,
if not wealth, will be sure to follow.
Let us again caution parents that nothing
is more destructive to their sons that to place
' them at trades and avocations lor which those
sons have no natural tastes, if you wish your
children to become skillful and expert you
must furnish thein with employment which is
congenial to their desires. A failure in doing
so is the greatest mistake which can be com
mitted. If parents have not sufficient intelli
gence to discover what the natural tastes of
their children best qualify them for, let them
apply to those friends who have observed their
children and who know their procivities bet
ter tliau themselves. Were this doctrine car
ried out, industrial society would soon change
places, to the advantage of individuals, as
well as that of the community.
Mauv clergymen, physicians and lawyers,
would leave positions iu which they never can
be successful, and engage in something more
congenial to their tastes, and wherein they
could work with profit to themselves and ben
efit to their fellow-men. Many a mechanic
who is chafing at his ill-adopted employment,
and who is conscious of a germ within hiui
which might be developed in a different sphere
of usefulness, would leave his shop and 4be
come the adviser of his fellows and the ruler
of iuen.
The only res|>eetable occupation which there
is for au individual is that for which he has
the be>t natural adaption. It lie takes any
other he can neither make himself respectable
nor wealthy. What he can do best is the
most appropriate occupation for him. Letter,
far better is it to be at the head of any trade
that at the foot of any profession. In the
former position, there is usefulness and profit :
in the latter, nothing but mortification, pover
ty and uselessuess. Let our mechanics pon
der upou these suggestions. Let tiieui resolve
to make themselves eminent iu the trade to
which they are engaged, and, our word for it,
they never need complain or want of employ
ment, or lack of rcuumeration. But if I hey
couteut themselves with mediocrity they will
certainly be unsuccessful, because skill, not
mere labor, is the criterion of profit.— MtcM
.1 <{ I'cnUl t{.
IT'S WHAT VOL* SPEND. —" It's what thee
'll spend, my son," said a sage old Quaker, not
what thee 'il make, which will decide whether
thee's to be rich or uot." This was only Frank
lin's advice in another form : " Take care of
Luc p*.' ii.es, afiJ the pounds \s*il t iko care o!
themselves." A eotemporary remarks; —"Men
are continually indulging in small expenses,
saying to themselves that it is only a trifle,
yet, forgetting that the aggregate is ser. i-.
that even the sea shore is uiailc up of petty
grains ot sand, ieu cent- a day, cveu, i
thiriv -'x dollars aud a half a year, aud that
is the interest of a capital of six hundred dol
lars.
" The tnau that saves ten cents a day only
is so much richer than him wi. > docs not, as
if he ow ned a life estate iu a house worth six
hundred dollars. Every sixteen years Mewts
a day becomes six hundred dollars, aud if iti
vested properly doc-s not take half that time
Cut U-u cents a day is child's play, - uoe w ill
exclaim. Well, then, Joliu Jacob Astor u-cd
to say that when a man, who wishes to !>e rich,
has saved ten thousand dollars, he has won
half the lrnttic. Not that Actor thought leu
thousand dollars much ; but he knew that, in
uiak...g such a sum a man acquired habits of
prudent ccouomy, which would constantly keep
him advancing in wealth. ll.w many, h.<w
evtr, spend ten thousand d-dlarsin a few year--,
iu extra expenses, and ou looking back, can
not led, as ituy say, 'where tue money went
to.' To save is the golden rule to get rich.—
To squander, cveu small sums, is the first step
toward the poor house."
"THE SHADOWS T.E O.is?. 9 —ln this great
world i>f sunshine and shadow wc are constant
ly casting shadows on thijsc around u?. and
rtciiving .diadc-ws turn them iu rtturu. There
is no pathway iu life which is not sometimes
in the shade, and there is no one who walks
over these paths, it matters not which way
tfeev tend, who does not now aud then cast
his shadow with the rest. How often do wc.
by a ui re thoughtless word or a car*, it --s act,
cast a shadow on some L art which is longing
for sunlight. How often does the husband by
a cool greeting. ca>t a g ■ n over tlie hajpy.
trc.sting !Ji"C of his y* ,:xg fih, v* ,n> f il iii.iy be
h;u> wailed auxiousiy for Lite first NBtd ot his
fiNitstcjis t > give ...ui aj o i u> wGcoiue lo hi
home. How often has the jmrcnt, by a I arsii
re}>r.K>f, chilled the ever Rowing spring of con
fidence and love which Lsbuhl ing up from the
fonntaius of the he-irt of the Huiocent (walticr
at hi< knee. How often are Lite bright ray s
of te>r from the ciiagi: g grasp e>f the
s uls v-f thetsc worn out by p .crty aud by the
ncver-euding confliet eif 'c.fe, by the stiuging
ridicule or the sordid avarice of w itom the
world honors—aye, ' rt- to honor How often
1 docs the child—cv, u after it has grown to the
fui! bloom of manl.ood, and is clad in garments
of strength aud beauty—bring S-TTOW to the
jxir* !:t already tottering oh the brink of eterni
ty. Tlieu beware, lest you cast a ihsqvr shadow
o'viW those which are already darkening his
happiness. The shadows we cast —can we
escape them ? Can we kx>k lek. sswe walk
on in life's journey, ar.d sc-e no shadowy mark
about our footprints ?
M 'sos, seeing a chap hoeing ami anoth
er mow: ig, su the same field, remark- 1 tnat
their occupations were derided y S'-.-ervr-gea-
Parting Interview between Emmet and
his Betrothed.
Emmot was nnfortuuatcly betrayed by ene
mies, in nn attempt to emancipate his conn
tryiiicnt from tyranny and oppression. He
was therefore convicted of the crime of treas
on. and .sentenced to bo executed.
The evening before his death, while the
workmen were busy with the scaffold, a voting ;
lady was ushered Into the dungeon. It was j
the gill who he so fondly loved and who had j
now come to bid linn an eternal farewell. Ik
was leaning iu a melancholy mood against the
window frame of his prison, and the heavy
clanking of his chains smote dismally on her
heart. This interview was bitterly affecting,
ami melted even the callous soul of the jailor. ,
As for Emmet, he wept, utul spoke little ; but
j as he pressed his beloved in silence to Lis heart j
his countenance betrayed his emotions. In a
loud voice, half choked by angui-h, he be- i
sought her uot to f rget him ; he reminded j
her of their former happiness, ot the long past
days of their childhood, and concluded by re- j
; questing her sometimes to visit the scene-; 1
• where tt>eir fancy was spent, and though the
world might repeat his name with scorn, to j
cling to his memory with affection At that mo- (
j meat the evening Del! |>calcd from the neigh
boring church. Emmet started at the sonnd ; j
i and be felt that this would be the last time i
that lie should hear its dismal echoes, he fold- j
ed his beloved still closer to his bosom, and >
bent over her sinking form with eyes stream
ing with tears of affection. The turnkey en
tend -it the moment, and, as though ashamed
of a temporal betrayal of sympathy, dashed
the rising drop from his eye, a frown again
lowered on his countenance. The man mean- j
while approached to tear the lady from his j
• embrace. Overpowered by his feelings, lie
could make no resistance, but as lie gloomily '
released her from his hold, he gave iter a min
iature >f himself, and with this parting token '
of attachment, imprinted the last kis.-es of a ;
dying man upon her lips. On gaining the 1
door, she turned rental as if to gaze on the 1
object of her widowed love. lie canght her '
eye as .he retired ; it was but for a moment : :
j the dinigeou door swung bark on its liingis, ' ]
1 and as it closed after her, iuformed him too ; 1
! snrcly,-that they had met for the last time up- :
on earth. '
i;
! ;
Sii >oting Stars —lt has been the subject of
considerable speculation, whether the bodies j
kuown as shooting stars owe their origin to i |
violent action at the moou's surface. Observ- j
or- are agreed, however, that the surface of j
the uioon offers no evidence of great agitation, j
The indentations of the surface remained un
changed, and nophcuoineuu have.itis believed,
been seen, which indicate the existence of vol- .
canoes, which might discharge small bodies i
with great force, and thus give rise to the sat- |'
effitW at the earth. The case is widely differ
ent a< regards the sun. Changes of uioraious !
uiagnituJ are continually witness*. 1 on its sur- j
face, which indicate the action of forces agila- j
ting the mass probably in a st i!e of fluidity |
If body were thrown up from the .-un's sur- ! ,
face, it must, omitting alt consideration of the '
pianets, describe an eclipse having the ceutr* 1
of the sun, iu oue of the ioei; and thus, Ihjw- j
ever great the force by which the b ly may
be s ipp >- 1 to h..ve been discharged, it must
return to the sun, -and impinging upon it. woukl
uot perform even one entire revolution. I;
however, the action of the other jdancts eon |
- *.ercJ, ami especially of Jupiter, it seems by 1
no meav.s imjs>--ih!e that, in returning, a bo*ly | ,
so di- '.arged m-ght clear the sun. and perform
many complete revoiut ions around the primary,
la explanation of the causa of the sudden dis
app.aruuce el shooting stars, it is kuowu that
> a miuufe brilliant sjot ot light is seen tutrav- 1
! t r-e a portion of tbe heavens with great rapid
itir. and it then disappears, often very sudueu
ly. Turec hypotheses may be used to account i
for this most curious phenomenon. First, the |
' lj*.Kiy shines by it own light, and thou explodes
i ke a sky-rocket, breaking into minute frag
I incuts too small to le any longer visible to the ;
naked eve Second, such alxxly havingslione
j by its owu light, suddenly eeuscs to be iutui- I 1
.- lu.rd, Hie body shiiica by UIC qcileetod (
| light of the sun, and cea-.s lo be v:-iblc by its |
pr-.si; g into the earth's shadow, or, in other
| word.-, is eclipsed.
•"
The Got den Days of \om;.— WHAT A
feeling of regret steals over the heart, as tin
I joyiuis days of y*>alii tiii as kawafte cire.nu- i
acro-ss our imagination to think that they are i
! lost forever. When the rare opportunity offers (
i its-lf of snatching a few moments f*>r eontem
plation from the toils of the bu>y world, how
i readily do we embrace it, brief though il b*-, I
to iaduigo iu tlie pleasing rcno uibrunce ui the
i past, to compare it with trie present, and tru-t ,
' For a bright realization of" things br ; g sighed j
' >r," in the futur* ! Wuat a triorioos thing
is youth ! full of warm eeafiiiaacc, high Ik>{k-s, I
and glorious feeling, from the heart l:ke a gu-ii
of music from an ange.'s harp How keen are j
its enjoyments, Imw exquisite its apprceia*i<a j
of the tr ie au*l beautiful ! What music is j
tin re to compare with the outpourings of a ■
' y.v.:!ifnl aud gvueroos heart jntuuj ileal by a'
n lie ambiliou iai|SMuie to climb ! liul tne
, tr.uo.kut dream of youth -.><u fades away ; j
a...s .' how soOti ; age coiues > rupzg on j
' us so imjwrcrptibty. that we start an I > : ghfor
day" now lost, when we feel the icy hand nj j
on u< that " comes to claim n- for it-. >v " j
With time we begtu to analyze OaracMOtM j
jt-xaiuiue the p>etais of the flower of our youth
and let the odor:- escape, oue by one, tiw.
fadc aud fall, and the withered stem u'oue is i
■ left iu the gazer's hand.
IKY* It may seem a paradox, but it is nev
ertheless the truth, that hit a man tqioa what
j evtr of the b*.dy you will, the blow is sure
. to go against tae stomach.
Lord Byron once said: "Yoa n°*er
know a man's temper until you have been a- i
| prisoned oa board of ash. t with L.j;, o; a j
I woaaa nctil voa Lave married btr."
Forgive the Living. —We forgive those
who have wronged us in thought, word or deed
when they arc laid to their final rest —wi-
spcak kindly, tenderly, even lovely —if we speak
at all—removing the veil which has hitherto
obsenred so much of their life's- harmony and
sweetness, at the same time drawing it over
those faults aud foibles, temptations and fail
ures, which are strewn so thickly in our path
way, written so indelibly in our heart's history.
Wc never seek to penetrate this vail, nor even
wish to. Aud why? 'limy have passed from
earth forever. Their bodies are mouldering
iu tlie cold silent tomb. This is sufficient. It
seems to forbid all entertainment, much more
expression, of aught but good-will and kindly
sympathy for the dead. But this is real, true
hearted, benevolent forgiveness? No! it is
not worthy of the uainc. Forgive the Jiving
—those who mingle with you in the daily walks
and avocations of life ; they whose lives you
may cheer, beautify, yea, ennoble if you will.—
Forgive a light, an angry word, h*t it not rankle
iu thy Ikjsoiii till a lire be kindled, which, if
nourished, will burn thine inmost soul—unfit
ting thee to go out among thy fellow men lest
they imbibe of tlie unrest .and angry turbulence
of thy spirit—nnfitting thee for all high, holy
heaven-born aspirations—unfitting thee for
life, death, and a blessed immortality. Forgive
though a wound be made causing all thy future
iu this world to be covered with a heavy pall.
Forgive ! taking for thy cxanq V the nn ck and
lowly Je-us, then shall be gathered in the
"crown of thy rejoicing " jewels w hose lustre
and brilliancy exceed ail mortal thought.—
" For if ye forgive men their trespn.-.-e>. your
Heavenly Father will al>o forgive you."—li -
re, I AWr YorLrr.
The Bank ok England. —The buildings j
cover about three acres of ground. Many of
its rooms arc copied from the classic molels of}
Greece and lLiue. The employees number
about one thousand. Several of the officers i
reside in the bank. The notes redeemed each ;
day are elteckcd, canceled and pnt away ia
IMIXOS. After keeping them ten years thev
are burned. The accumulation of the last ten
years, now in the vaults of the bank, amount
to three thonsand millions of |>ounds ; and yet
any of these notes can be referred to iu a min
ute. and the history of it- iisne and its return
given. The bank does all its own printing.aud
several presses are kepi busy. Everything is
done by machinery—the note is not touched
by the j>eu before it goes out. I held in mv j
hand, yesterday, one note for a inilliou of sov
ereigns I i
Iu the bullion-room iugots of gold were piled i
up like cords ot wood, and silver bars in vast !
mountains. The machines for detecting light j
coin, and for catting them, are exceedingly !
curious and yet simple. Every banker's de
}>osit is weighed and all the light pieces cut
nearly in two and returned the next day. The
-} -tem of the bank is as pcifeci an 1 exact as
cloek-work. And yet in spit-, ofall precaution
some small forgery is almost daily detected
But since trie great forgery committed by
A xtell lor A. Job, hot),the bank has uot iot many
heavy .-urns; although iu capital puuisli
ment for the crime was abolished, when the
** old fogies" pr licted that everybody 'hard
up ' would turn forger.
In the sjK-cie dej>artineiit of the bank there
are bag- and boxes of sovereigns aud uaif sov
ereigns enough to make a mi.-er mad ; there are
mountains of mint drops, for which millions are •
-igtiing and perpetrating all conceivable crimes!
I was asked to lift a big bag of sovercigns.and
for once, I must confess, I felt a sovereign dis
gust for woiivY. — CW. Fn. cf.
" I Dare Ukitse to Fight." —After school
at night, George joined some boys who were
amusing them-' Ives by -liding down hill ou
their le Is. George had draw n his sled to the
top of the hill, and was riding down again,
when one of the loy>, to tease him, drew his
sled directly in the path, so that when George's
sled catue in contact with it he was thrown off
into the snow. George was inclined to be an
gry at first : but he soon recollected himself,
and theught "if I do nt get angry luw, ftu
will be a triuiuifli, I am sure."
All the boys gathered arouui him and said, j
" Give it to him, George ; George, give it to
him. 1 would pay him well for that.*'
" No," said George : "it he has done wrong
that is uo rcsv-oa why I ritouid do wrong too.''
"It is because you .."z/y not fight me, that j
you have grown so wonderful gi -I all at once.' |
said the bov who had thrown him from bis
sled.
George felt his spirit begin to rl-e at this
.taunt ; but Le knew lie was iu the r.giit of .t '
aud he answered taliu y :
" I dare refuse to fight, notwithstanding your j
=neers ; and I leave yon to judge wI; ch re
quires- t .e greatest courage '
All tile boys km that George was right,
and had displayed tile beat a.'id most d.ilicuit |
kiud of courage j so Jtbey urg. d him no more j
to fight, and even the boy who had thrown him (
from his sled could uot help feeling ashamed of
his coudtct.
ai Don'T Yoi" Learn a Hu . l
question was iu our ho . iig, a few j
daysnace, to a young :u.ui who had aeon for 1
several mouths aUgUOimAlly seeking i-mp?oy-!
mem as a clerk or salesman in -*:? of ur!
lea-Sing houses. Ccuip :ouqg of ills i.i-iuck, '
one of his friends, whokuewitu had amevhaa I
ical talent, but doubted whether hecwuld make |
himself u.-.-ful cither as a clerk or >a!c.-tuan, .
put the intern gatory to him w h.ch we have
placed as t!i* captiin of this art cle. Toe ro- (
ply w.is, "It is not so r-.-jieetable as a tner- '
cauliSe occnpati n." I o*kr 10..- dela-:e i.u-a,
our stores are crowded with young rncu who j
have no capacity iot bm-im -s,:ud !k, 1- cause
of the faoried r* stability of *k>ing nothing 1
waste away their minority ihrni salaries which 1
< am, a 1 4y iiuni .ate u -.r ex. eL-e>. L..te, t
too, in life, they d .-eov.r their error, atol be
fore they re a:h the age of thirty, rasa vof them
U/ok ita ei>y apon the thrifty r-- 1 --' o
i whom, iu the days *c tte.r boy hood, tfcey #ti®!
* xmitomed to deride '
VOL. XX. 3STO. 17.
THE §KNRCKR. —Let t!ie seducer remember
that he must stand with his victim and his
partner in guilt, before the judge of quick and
d< ad. Lev it be remembered that a female is
a moral and accountable being, hastening with
ns to the bar of <Jod ; that she is made to bo
the centre of all that is delightful in the domes
tic relations, that by her very nature,she looks
up to her man as her proteetor, and loves to
confide iu his hands her happiness for life ;a:id
that -he can only be ruined by abusing that
confidence, proving false to that reliance, and
using the loveliest trail in her character astho
instrument of her undoing. And then let us
consider the misery into which a loss of virtue
must plunge the victim, and her friends for
ever ; the worth of Hint soul, unless a miracle
interpose, must, by the loss of virtue, be con
signed to eternal dispair ; and I ask, whether,
in the whole catalogue of human crime, there
be one whose atrocity more justly merits the
deejiest damnation, than that, which for the
momentary gratification of a lawless appetite,
will violate all those obligations, outrage all
those sympathies, and work out so wide-spread
ing, so interminable a ruin. Dm WAVI.AXD.
THE RIVER JORHAN*.—A correspondent of
the Ltica I!trail gives this description of the
river Jordan :
" Aline of green low forest trees betrayed
the conrse of the sacred river through the
plain. So deep is its channel, and so thick is
the forest that -kirts its banks, that I rode
within twenty yards of it before I caught the
first gleain of its waters. 1 was agreeably dis
appointed. I had heard the Jordau described
as an insipid, muddy stream. Whether it was
the contrast with the desolation around, or my
fancy that made its greeu banks so beautiful,!
know not, but it did seem at that moment of
its revelation to my longingeyestlic perfection
of calm and loneliness. It is hardly as wide
as the Mohawk at Utica, but far more rapid
and impassioned iu its flow. Indeed, of all the
rivers 1 have ever seen the Jordan lias the
fiercest current. Its water is by no means
clear, but it as little deserves the name of
muddy. At the place where I first saw it
tradition a--;_'iis the baptism of our Saviour,
and also the miraculous crossing of the children
of Israel on their entrance into the promised
land.
Like a] true pilgrim, I bathed in its waters
and picked a few pebbles from its banks as
tokens of remembrance of the most familiar
river in the world. Three miles below the spot
where I now stand, the noble river—itself the
very emblem of life—suddenly throws itself ou
the putrid bosom of the Dead Sea.
THE VELOCITY OK LIGHT. —The velocity with
which light travels is so iuconceiveable that we
require to make it intelligible by some illustra
tions. It moves from the the sua to the earth
iu seven and a half minutes ; whereas, a can
non-ball fired from the earth would require 17
years to reach the sun. Light moves through
a space equal to the circumference of the earth,
or about 25,000 miles, in about eightli part
of a second. The swiftest bird would require
three weeks to perforin this journey. Light
would demonstrably require five years to move
froui the nearest fixed star to the earth, and
probably many thousand years from the most
remote star bv the telescope ll.nee, if
a remote visible -tar had been created at the
time of the creation of man, it may not yet
have become visible to our system — JZiuytlv
piuiu. J3rii<inica.
A THREE YEAR OI.JV —The Rome Sentinel
relates that a little three year old girl accom
panied her faiiier upon a visit to her graudjui
rent- iu the country, where a blessing is iuvok
cd by the white-haired pairiarch before each
meal. The custom was one with which our
little friend hail not been familiar a: h >mc, and
of course ou the first occasion she was silent
with interest and curious with w&tchfuluess.—
Rat when the family gathered around the
board the second time after the commencement
of her virit, she was jrepared for the prelimi
nary religion- ceremony, and obscrviug that
her father did not K-CUJ duly conscious of the
approaching solemnity, she called h in to or
der by >iyiug, with stem gravity, "Distill, pc
pa—grr.vJp/} ,'s gii g to t ill to kisfhik frd-
If so&n m
T: : F MILMONAIRS. —One w-ith a great many
bags of gold,and five poor relations, not count
ing the con-In-", to each bag. Said bag- cover
a multitude of sins, ar.d entitle the owner to
rent ration wniie living, and ever! s'ing memo
ry after death. The members who turn out
to the fu .. rui are t nly equalled by the crowds
of in w re I: lions who turn tip at the reading of
! the will. The bags disanfieur faster than he
collected them, and the gr.o-s on his grave is
soou at high as his name on the tombstone.
fr-sT 1 Neither manner w man can become
u ..• they intend to l*- by carpeting their pro
gr.with velvet. Real strength is tested by
difficulties.
A man who avoids matrimony on ae
coiiiil of the cares of wedded fife, is compared
to :■ ic v. . > w raid amputate a leg to save his
toes from corns
fc?*A lady who Ugau to weary of the
c:.lk isins ot a party of gv.utii.jcti, on criio
-e, .J, " !o:;g a- hoop d >k!rt> keep
bx li-'i >j fe at a omvoiirnt distance, just 9o
long will they tolerated n
t-. - It may l e said ger.>ral'y of hn-hatwb.
as the w-otian -aid of hers who had beat her,
to a .fd ma i who reproached hvf for being
,-mli a f>H .i- to iiiam I.on : "To be sure he
is uoi -> _ tit a hn-!aud as fie should be, but
he's a jiowvrful sight better than none A
I -J- The to.!• w ing is a good phrase, de-c n -
tve of an energetic character: " Crotnwell
■V i t w.iii to - . ike until the iron wa a hot,
i • ;> u r ifstn.iin-.*
F —The greater tfc* diffieufrr,
g'--v nrnnoanrmgw iskilfu' pikas
_*v.. T'.e-r rer aTwtiotrfroia : toras tod 'wanest.