honour and prosperity. The favour of three successive c had filled his house with riches, and whenever he appeared benediction of the people proclaimed his approach.

2. Terrestrial happiness is of short continuance. brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel, and the frag flower passing away in its own odours. The vigour of C began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his head, stre departed from his hands, and agility from his feet. He back to the califf the keys of trust, and the seals of secre and sought no other pleasure for the remainder of his days, the converse of the wise, and the gratitude of the poor w he relieved.

3. The powers of his mind were yet unimpaired. His ch ber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of exp ence, and officious to pay the tribute of admiration. Calid, son of the viceroy of Egypt, entered every day early, and tired late; he was beautiful and eloquent; Omar admired wit, and loved his docility. Tell me,' said Calid, 'thou whose voice nations have listened with admiration, and wh wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I m resemble Omar the prudent. The arts by which thou h gained power, and preserved it, are no longer necessary useful to thee; impart to me, therefore, the secret of conduct, and teach me the plan on which thy wisdom has bu thy fame.'

4. 'Young man,' said Omar, it is of little use to form pla of life. When I took my first survey of the world, in my twe tieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankin in an hour of solitude, I said thus to myself, leaning against tree, which spread its branches over my head, seventy yea are allowed to man; I have yet fifty remaining; ten years will allot to the attainment of knowledge, and ten I will pass foreign countries.

5. I shall be learned, and, consequently, honoured; ever city will shout at my arrival, and every student will solicit m acquaintance. Twenty years thus passed, will store my min with images, which will be employment for me through th rest of my life in combining and comparing. I shall revel i fresh accumulations of intellectual wealth. I shall find new pleasures for every moment, and shall never more be weary o myself.

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in the suburbs of Bagdad, in every pleasure that wealth purchase, and fancy can invent. I will then retire to a al dwelling, and pass my last days in obscurity and contemion, and lie silently down on the bed of death. Through life it shall be my settled resolution never to depend on the les, nor stand exposed to the artifices of courts; I will never t fer public honours, nor disturb my quiet with affairs of Such was my scheme of life in my younger days. . The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in rch of knowledge, and I know not how I was diverted from design. I had no visible impediments without, nor suffered ungovernable passions within. I regarded knowledge as highest honour, and most engaging pleasure: yet day stole day, and month glided after month, till I found that seven rs of the first ten had vanished, and left nothing behind

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3. ' I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why uld I go abroad, while so much remained to be learned at me? I therefore immured myself at home for four years, studied the laws of the empire. The fame of my knowge reached even the judges. I was found able to speak on doubtful questions, and was commanded to stand at the tstool of the supreme califf. I was heard with attention; I s consulted with confidence, and the love of praise fastened my heart.

9. I still wished to see distant countries, listened with rape to the relations of travellers, and resolved to ask my disssion, that I might feast my soul with novelty; but my prece was always necessary, and the stream of business hurried along. Sometimes I was afraid lest I should be charged h ingratitude; but I proposed to travel, and therefore would - confine myself by marriage.

10. In my fiftieth year, I began to suspect that the time of - travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the icity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleares. But at fifty no man finds a woman beautiful as the Houes, and wise as Zobida. I inquired and rejected, consulted d deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of zing upon the fair. I had now nothing left but retirement, d for retirement I never found a time, till disease forced me om public employment.

away the years of improvement; with a resuess desire on ing different countries, I have always resided in the same with the highest expectation of connubial felicity, I have unmarried; and with unalterable resolutions of contempl retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdad.'

The Supreme Ruler of the World.

1. MANY kingdoms and countries full of people, and isl and large continents, and different climes, make up this w world: God governs it. The people swarm upon the fac it like ants upon a hillock. Some are black with the hot s some cover themselves with furs against the sharp cold; s drink of the fruit of the vine; some the pleasant milk of cocoa-nut; and others quench their thirst with the run stream. All are God's family: he knows every one of th as a shepherd knows his flock. They pray to him in differ languages, but he understands them all; he hears them all; takes care of all: none are so great, that he cannot pur them; none are so mean, that he will not protect them.

2. Negro woman, who sittest pining in captivity, and we est over thy sick child; though no one sees thee, God s thee: though no one pities thee, God pities thee. Raise voice, forlorn and abandoned one; call upon him from ami thy bonds; for assuredly he will hear thee. Monarch, t rulest over a hundred states; whose frown is terrible as dea and whose armies cover the land, boast not thyself as thou there were none above thee. God is above thee; his pow ful arm is always over thee; and if thou doest ill, assuredly will punish thee.

3. Nations of the earth, fear the Lord; families of men, c upon the name of your God. Is there any one whom he ha not blessed? Let him not praise him.

Abraham and Lot.

1. DOMESTIC altercations began to perplex families in th very childhood of time; the blood even of a brother was she at an early period. But with how much tenderness and goo sense does Abraham prevent the disagreement which ha nearly arisen, as is but too frequently the case, from the quan rels of servants! He said, unto Lot, ' I pray thee let there b no strife betwixt me and thee, nor between my herdmen an ernal tear just starting from his eye, is this moment 5 and thus, methinks, I catch instruction from the lip erable man, as he addresses Lot. ' Away, my dear vay with strife: we were born to be the servants of he companions of each other: as we sprang from the nt, so we naturally partake of the same affections. ethren, sons of the same father; we are friends: for Aredship should be the most exalted friendship. Let en, disagree, because our herdmen have disagreed; were to encourage every idle pique, and senseless Great, indeed has been our success since our mi o this fair country: we have much substance, and

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what! shall brothers quarrel, because it has pleasn to prosper them? This would be ingratitude, But if, notwithstanding these persuasives, thy spitroubled, let us separate: rather than contend with -, I would, hard as it is, even part with him for a erhaps the occasion of dispute (which I have already ☐ will soon be no more remembered by thee. Is whole land before thee? Take then my blessing and ace, and separate thyself from me. To thee is sube advantages of choice. If thou wilt take the left hand, t I may not appear to thwart thee unbrotherly, I will right; or, if thou art more inclined to the country, es upon the right, then will I go the left. Be it as thou whithersoever thou goest, happy mayest thou be?' listened to his brother, and departed. He cast his The well watered plains of Jordan. When he separated, s to have been with the hope of increasing his wealth; Abraham, actuated by the kindest motives, often, no ressed his brother's hand, and often bade him adieu; n followed him to repeat his farewell wish before he ffer him to depart.

A Persecuting Spirit Reproved.

RAM was sitting at the door of his tent, under the shade g-tree, when it came to pass, that, a man, advanced in Dearing a staff in his hand, journeyed that way. And noonday. And Aram said unto the stranger, Pass not ray thee, but come in and wash thy feet, and tarry herë

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Aram set before him bread and cakes of fine meal baked the hearth. And Aram blessed the bread, calling upor name of the Lord. But the stranger did eat, and refus pray unto the Most High, saying, 'Thy Lord is not the G my fathers; why, therefore, should I present my vows him?" And Aram's wrath was kindled; and he called his vants, and they beat the stranger, and drove him into the derness.

2. Now, in the evening, Aram lifted up his voice unto Lord, and prayed unto him. And the Lord said, 'Aram, wh is the stranger that sojourned this day with thee?' And A answered, and said, 'Behold, O Lord! he eat of thy bre and would not offer unto thee, his prayers and thanksgivin Therefore, did I chastise him, and drive him from before into the wilderness.' And the Lord said unto Aram, W hath made thee a judge between me and him? Have not I bo with thine iniquities, and winked at thy backslidings? and sh thou be severe with thy brother, to mark his errours, and punish his perverseness? Arise, and follow the stranger, a carry with thee, oil and wine, and anoint his bruises, and spe kindly unto him. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous Ge and judgment belongeth only unto me. Vain is thine oblat of thanksgiving without a lowly heart.

As a bulrush, thou mayest bow down thy head, and lift thy voice like a trumpet; but thou obeyest not the ordinan of thy God, if thy worship be for strife and debate. Beho the sacrifice that I have chosen; is it not to undo the heav burdens; to let the oppressed go free, and to break ever yoke; to deal thy wead to the hungry, and to bring the poo that are cast out, to thy house?" And Aram trembled befor the presence of God. And he arose, and put on sackclot and ashes, and went out into the wilderness, to do as the Lor bad commanded.

Sisterly Unity and Love.

1. OBSERVE those two hounds that are coupled together, said Euphronius to Lucia and Emylia, who were looking through the window, How they torment each other by a disagreemen in their pursuits! One is for moving slowly, and the other vainby urges onward. The larger dog now sees some object that tempts him on this side; and mark how he drags his compa

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