particular business, acted contrary to the gestions of his wife, without having reason afards to repent of it.

et me press upon my fair readers to study s of usefulness, both as to the body and the d, so that their families, their neighbours, r friends, their country, may be the better for

n.

"While others are weightly engaged in hing a fashion, or adjusting a curl, let the obof your cultivation be the understanding, the nory, the will, the affections, the conscience. no part of this internal creation be unadorned; it sparkle with the diamonds of wisdom, of dence, of humility, of gentleness. These oraents alone will confer dignity, and prepare usefulness."

t would be a pleasant summer amusement, s Mrs. H. Moore, for our young ladies of fore, if they were to preside at such spinning sts as are instituted at Nunheam, for the protion of virtue and industry in their own sex. asurable aniversaries of this kind would serve combine in the minds of the poor two ideas ich ought never to be separated, but which are not very forward to unite,-that the at wish is to make them happy as well as good. It would be a noble employment, observes the ove-mentioned author, and well becoming the derness of their sex, if ladies were to consider superintendance of the poor as their immedioffice. They are peculiarly fitted for it; for, m their own habit of life, they are more intitely acquainted with domestic wants than the

expected to have more sympathy, and they 1 obviously more leisure. There is a certain re ous society distinguished by simplicity of dr manners, and language, whose poor are, perh taken better care of than any other; and one son may be, that they are immediately under inspection of the women.

"Do you know," says an ingenious wri "what we most admire in you? It is not y dress: we could make a beast fine with trappin It is not your abilities: it would not be your a lities, if you had such powers as angels ha for, indeed, what but a fine creature is Gabrie us? a fine speculation, more beautiful than rainbow to look at; but what is it to us? W we admire, and what we ought to admire, in m is that collection of fine feelings which make h a human creature, social and useful. Sympat and fellow feeling, tenderness of heart and p for the wretched, compassion for your neighbou and reverence for your God, the melting eye, t soothing tone, the silver features, the ingenio devices, the rapid actions of a soul all penetrat with reason and religion, these are the qualiti we admire in you. O, I love the soul that mu and will do good, the kind creature that runs the sick bed, I might rather say bedstead, of poor neighbour, wipes away the moisture of fever, smoothes the clothes, beats up the pillow fills the pitcher, sets it within reach, administe only a cup of cold water; but, in the true spir of a disciple of Christ, becomes a fellow work with Christ in the administration of happiness mankind. Peace be with that good soul! She a so must come in due time into the condition d

neighbour, and then may the Lord strengthen upon the bed of languishing, and, by some hand like her own, make all her bed in her ness."

- tribute of respect might be here paid to ceated pious women. The names of Parr, RusRowe, Hope, Glenorchy, Huntingdon, Lang

Warwick, Hastings, Brooks, and a vast ber of others, will not soon be forgotten. But interesting accounts of these illustrious cha ers, see Gibbons's Memoirs of Pious Women, n additions, by the Rev. G. Jerment.

THE FOOL'S REPROOF.

THERE was a certain nobleman (says Bishop 1) who kept a fool, to whom he one day gave aff, with a charge to keep it till he should et with one who was a greater fool than him: not many years after, the nobleman fell sick, n unto death. The fool came to see him: his x lord said to him, "I must shortly leave 1." “And whither are you going?" said the 1. "Into another world," replied his lordship. And when will you come again? Within a nth?" "No." "Within a year ?" "No." When then?" "Never." "Never!" said the 1: "and what provision hast thou made for entertainment there whither thou goest?" None at all." "No!" said the fool," none all! Here, then, take my staff; for, with all

FORBEARANCE, KINDNESS, &c.

"ALL that is great and good in the unive is on the side of clemency and mercy. If we l into the history of mankind, we shall find that every age, those who have been respected as w thy have been distinguished for this virtue. venge dwells in little minds: a noble and mag nimous spirit is superior to it. Collected wit itself, it stands unmoved by the impotent assau of our enemies; and with generous pity, rat than with anger, looks down on their unwort conduct. It has been truly said, that the great man on earth can no sooner commit an inju than a good man can make himself greater by fo giving it."

Anger and revenge are uneasy passion hence," says Seed," it appears that the co mand of loving our enemies which has be thought a hard saying, and impossible to be fu filled, is really no more, when resolved into first principles, than bidding us to be at pea with ourselves, which we cannot be, so long we continue at enmity with others."

The heathens themselves saw the reasonabl ness of the spirit which we are now inculcating and approved of it. It is said concerning Juliu Cæsar, that upon any provocation he would repe the Roman alphabet before he suffered himself t speak, that he might be more just and calm in h resentments, and also that he could forget nothin but wrongs, and remember nothing but benefits

It becomes a man, says the emperor Antoninus to love even those that offend him. A man hurt himself, says Epictetus, by injuring me: and

then? Shall I therefore hurt myself by inng him? In benefits, says Seneca, it is a disce to be outdone; in injuries to get the better. other heathen, when he was angry with one by , said, "I would beat thee; but I am angry.' Philip, the king of Macedon, discovered great deration, even when he was spoken to in shockand injurious terms. At the close of an audie which he gave to some Athenian ambassas who were come to complain of some act of stility, he asked whether he could do them any vice. "The greatest service thou could'st do " said Demochares, "will be to hang thyf." Philip, though he perceived all the persons esent were highly offended at these words, ade the following answer, with the utmost Imness of temper: "Go; tell your superiors, at those who dare make use of such insolent nguage are more haughty and less peaceably inined than those who can forgive them."

It is recorded to the honour of Edward III, hat one day, being laid down upon the bed, one f his domestics, who did not know that he was n the room, stole some money out of a chest he ound open, which the king let him carry off without saying a word. Presently after the boy eturned to make a second attempt: the king called out to him, without any violence of passion, "Sirrah, you had best be satisfied with what you have got; for if my chamberlain come and catch you, he will not only take away what you have stolen, but also whip you severely." The chamberlain coming in and missing the money, fell into a great rage; but the king calmly said to him, "Be content; the chest should not have been