TILE HAPPY FARMER. His home's a cot embowered in trees, A garden filled with fruit and flowers, Whore sing:ng birds and humming bees Make gay the smiling hours, A ranee of meadows greed and fair, And fields which will repay his care: With joy he greets the rising sun, And gladly hastens to his toil In fancy sees the harvest won, • As covering with the mellow soil The tiny wheat, which yet will bring A glorious autumn offering. The golden hours, how quick they A 5 i The happy day, how soon 'tis filed, Then onward doth the farmer hie, Awl ftnds a table neatly spread With many a dainty which the field And garden plot so richly feld. The evening is fratight with joy, For loved one's cluster round him thetei lie tastes a bliss without alloy, Which e'en a kin, might sigh to share; Then seeks his couch and finds repose, Which only he who toileth knows. Power of a Good Illau , s Life. The beauty of a holy life constitutes the most effettive persuasive to reli gion which one human can address to another. We have many ways of do ing good to our fellow creatures ; but none so efficacious as leading a virtuous upright, and well-ordered life. There is an energy of moral suasion in a good man's life passing the highest efforts of the orator's genius. The seen but silent beauty of holiness speaks more eloquent ly of God and duty than the tongues of men and angels. Let parents remember this. The best inheritance a parent dan bequeath to a child is a virtuous exam ple, a legacy of hallowed remembrances and associations. The beauty of holi ness, beaming through the life of a loved relative or friend, is More effectual to strengthen such as do stand in virtue's ways, rind raise up those that are bowed down, than precept, comment', entreaty, or warning. Christianity itself, I be lieve, owes by far the greater part of its moral power, not to the precepts or par ables of Christ, but to his own charac ter., Th - e beauty of that holiness which is enshrined to the four biographies of the Man of Nazareth, has done more, arid will do more to regenerate the World and bring in an everlasting righteousness than all ;he other agencies put together. It has done more to spread religion in the world then all that has ever been preached or written on the evidences of Christianity.—Clialmers. Truth. Adhere always rigidly and undevia- Ongly to truth; but While you express what is true, express it in a pleasing manner. Truth is the picture, the man ner is the frame that displays it to advan tage. If a man blends his angry pas sions with his search after the truth, be come his superidr by suppressing yours, and attend only to the justness and force of his reasonino. Truth, conveyed in austere and acrimonious language, sel: dom has a salutary effect, since we re ject the truth because we are prejudiced against the mode of communication.— The heart must be won, before the intel lect 'can be informed. A man may be , tray the cause of truth by his unreason ably zeal, as he destroys its salutary ef fects by the acrimony of his manners.— hoever would he a successful instruc tor, must first become a mild arid effee tionate friend. Now, Standing, a few days since, by the bedside °f it man who was sinking in the agonies of Asiatic Cholera, he virned his glassy eyes upon me, and said : 'A few hours more, slew hours more to pre pnre!' Thirty minuts after, 1 met one of his neighbors hurrying through the streets towards the undertaker's. Poor was already in another world. How often had the unhappy man heard from my pulpit, 'Now is the accepted time;' but never had 1 proclaimed that warning to him so earnestly as he did to me in that dying cry. 'A fete hours more a few hours more!' And from a thousand death-beds conies the same announcement every day—'./Vow is the accepted time,' echoes in the car of ev ery living man. To the impenitent man the voice proclaims now is the time to make your peace with God. To the ministers of Christ it says now is the time to press the religion of the gospel on every conscience. To the church member it says, now is the time for prayer and earn.st labor, or mayhap the Judge is standing at the Very door. The Printer. Dow, Jr. in one of his sermons dis courses as follows: <