correction, and even the house of silence. The other class pays no such tribute, -no, not even a portion of it; the other burdens of the community they share, indeed, in common with their brethren; a portion of their earnings goes even to provide and furnish those abodes of woe and death, which intoxicating liquors crowd with inmates; but the inmates are all, all trained in the society, instructed in the maxims, moulded by the customs, and finally delivered up from the ranks of the opposite party-the moderate drinking party. Now, beloved youth, which of these two modes of life will you adopt? To which of these two classes will you attach yourselves? Which, think you, is the safest which most noble, patriotic, Christian? In one word, which will ensure the purest bliss on earth, and afford the fairest prospect of admission into heaven? For the mere privilege of using intoxicating liquors moderately, are you willing to contribute your proportion annually to people the poor-house, the prison-house, and the grave-yard? For such a privilege, are you willing to give up to death, or even to delirium tremens, a parent this year; a wife, a child, or brother, or sister, the next; and the year thereafter, a friend or neighbour? Are you willing to do this; and having done it, are you further willing, as a consequence, to hear the mothers', the wives', the widows', and the orphans' wailings, on account of miseries inflicted by a system deliberately adopted by your choice, sustained by your example, and perpetuated by your influence; nor to hear alone? are you willing to see also the beggar's rags, the convict's fetters, and those other more hideous forms of guilt and misery, the product of intemperance, which liken men to demons, and earth to hell! The Counsel Chamber. HAPPY HOMES-HOW TO MAKE THEM; OR, HINTS TO HUSBANDS AND WORDS TO WIVES. BY A LATE EMINENT MINISTER. 1 PET. iii. 7; EPH. v. 33. THIS honour (which husband and within doors, shows that what is comwife owe to each other) implies re-monly called politeness and good bespect, attention, and preservation of haviour is merely assumed; and that authority and influence. It is a mu- there is very little, or rather no printual duty, and of great importance. ciple in its mixture. The frequent Unless respect is conscientiously pre- contentions and petulances of the doserved and shown, the intimacy even mestic scene too often prove that neiof married life may degenerate into ther party is influenced by the love that familiarity which breeds con- and fear of God. The fact is, that tempt. Hence that respect ought to they are no longer under external rebe cultivated, which has a salutary straint, and they have not sufficient restraint on the temper, the mode of religious principle to restrain inwardly expression, and the conduct. The their own peevish humours. What is laws of common civility enforce this the reason of the frequent uneasiness in the general intercourse of life; but, between man and wife, and their alas! the too general license which is sometimes giving full scope to their given to the temper and behaviour passions upon very trifling occasions, even amongst persons who behave with decency, calmness, and general good temper to all others? Is it because they think their reputation safe in each other's hands, and therefore they are not afraid to discover their natural sourness and malignity. This shows that neither love of rectitude nor the fear of God is at the bottom of that poor thing we call virtue, since we exert it least where it is most due, and where it would be most serviceable to ourselves, only because we think we can do so without disgrace. 1. Every day let your eye be fixed on God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, that by the influence of his Holy Spirit you may receive your mercies as coming from him, and that you may use them to his glory. 2. Always remember, if you are happy in each other, it is the favour and blessing of God that makes you so; if you are tried and disappointed, God does thereby invite you to seek your happiness more in him. 3. In every duty, act from a regard to God, because it is his will and your duty. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus; and look to him to bless you and your partner, and that you may abide in his love. 4. Never suffer your regard for each other's society to rob God of your heart, or of the time which you owe to God and your own soul. 5. Recollect often, that the state of marriage was designed to be an emblem of the love of Christ and his Church, a state of mutual guardianship for God, and a nursery for the Church and the skies. 6. Remember that your solemn covenant with each other was made in the temple of the Lord, in the presence of his Church, and that the Most High God was called upon as a witness. 7. Be careful that custom and habit do not lessen your attentions to each other, or the pleasing satisfaction with which they were once both shown and received. 8. Whenever you perceive a languor in your affections, always make it a rule to suspect yourself. The object which once inspired regard, may, perhaps, be still the same, and the blame only attaches to you. 9. Be sure to avoid unkind and irritating language. Always conciliate. It is your interest and your duty. Recollect this very day what God has borne in you. 10. Study your partner's character and disposition. Many wise little adjustments are requisite for your happiness. You must both accommodate,, or you will both be unhappy: "The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; 11. Do not expect too much. You are not always the same, no more is your partner. Sensibility must be watched over, or it will soon become its own tormentor. 12. When you discover failings which you did not suspect, and this you may be assured will be the case, think on the opposite excellence, and make it your prayer that your regard may not be diminished. If you are heirs of the grace of life, your failings will shortly be over, you will hereafter both be perfect in the Divine image. Esteem and love each other now, as you certainly will then. Forbearance is the trial and grace of this life only. 13. Time is short; the way of life is too short to fall out in, and the com- | self-government. Learn to love God, fort of life too uncertain to be en- aim at his glory, and consider your snared by. Pray for the wisdom of situation in your family as a talent the serpent and the harmlessness of which you are to use for your own and the dove. others benefit, temporal, spiritual, and eternal. 14. Forget not that one of you must die first-one of you must feel the pang and chasm of separation. A thousand little errors may then wound the survivor's heart. It is policy to anticipate it. Oh, that when you meet again, the deceased may say in heaven, I am, under God, indebted to you that I am here! 15. Pray constantly; you need much prayer. Prayer will engage God on your behalf. His blessing can make even the bitterness of life wonderfully sweet. He can suspend all our joys. Blessed be his holy name! He can, and often does, suspend all our sorrows. Never pass a day without praising him for all that is past; glorify him with your present mercies, and trust him for all that is to come. The first grand object, then, to be attended to is your own personal religion. Children soon discover whether their parents are in earnest with God or not. This will give an early impression. Your own personal happiness depends on your personal religion, and so also does the general happiness of your family. Family government will never be established or well managed, unless the parent begins with Remember, likewise, you are bound to promote the happiness and religious welfare of your domestics. In order to do this, make religion appear lovely. Let your domestic government be just and kind. Consider that you have a Master in heaven, and endeavour to imitate both his justice and his love. God might have made you their servant. Choose such as love and fear him; they will bring God's blessing on you, as Joseph did on the house of the Egyptian. Every man carries his own atmosphere around him of unhappiness or comfort; if we are irreligious, profane, tyrannic, proud, peevish, and ill-humoured, we make all around us unhappy; if we love God and our neighbour-if we cultivate humility, kindness, justice, and benevolence, the tendency is to make all around us satisfied, comfortable, and happy. Α man's misery is very much his own fault. Now, as religion most tends to subdue our evil tempers, and to inspire whatever is just, and lovely, and of good report, it is sound policy, as well as duty, to begin with personal religion. ADVICE TO YOUNG FEMALES. We understand our last lucubrations to Young Females have excited very considerable satisfaction, and given no small pleasure to judicious persons; we are, therefore, disposed to add a few words on the subject from a Transatlantic Physician of eminence, which are wise and weighty, and the fruit of no small experience. He expresses himself as follows: I have heard that Dr. Warren, of Boston, has said, that comparatively few of the young ladies of that city have a straight spine; and every American gentleman who returns from Europe is painfully impressed with the pallid and feeble aspect of the young ladies of America. It is undoubtedly in the school-room that the foundation is laid of that feebleness of frame and general debility which characterizes American ladies. Many a child, while growing, is secluded in the confined air of the school-room, perhaps without any support for the back, for hours a day; and then is sent home at six, with an armful of books and a worried mind, to commit three or four lessons in the evening and morning. Her eyes become feeble, and the parents send for an eye-wash. Her back becomes tender and inclined to curve, and they purchase for the poor victim a patent shoulder-brace. Her cheeks become pale, and she has the commencement of a cough, and they dose her with drugs. At last her health is so much impaired, that she is taken from school with a very imperfect education, and an enfeebled constitution; and she lingers out a languid and joyless life. It is a great mistake to overtask the mind and neglect the health of the body. It is as injurious to the intellectual advancement as it is to bodily vigour ; for a healthy girl, other things being equal, will make more mental progress in one hour than a feeble girl will in two. To this we shall add a word of counsel from one of the brightest female intellects of the bygone age-a woman who, in addressing her daughter, says: It is but half a year, my dear girl, when we hope to see you again. A little speck of time, indeed! Yet we might esteem such periods long, when we remember that few of them will change your auburn locks to grey; and then that a few more will lay you in the dust. If this be the case, how precious are they! You are now a child; but a little while will bring you to maturity, when you will be required to act for yourself. This will so soon be the case, that it is almost enough to alarm you. Consider what a poor figure you would make in the world with your present stock of knowledge and experience; how little able to conduct yourself-still less to govern others! Yet you may be encouraged by reflecting on the great progress some have made in as short a time, and often in less advantageous circumstances. Let these considerations stimulate you to exertion in your various pursuits; but ever remembering that, as your education is intended to prepare you for the duties of the present life, so the primary business of this life itself is to qualify you for one which is to come. Amongst so many occupations that have no direct relation to this grand object, and amongst so many temptations to neglect it, it is particularly necessary, my dear child, to remind you that "one thing is needful." A VOICE FROM THE TOMB.-SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY. FEW of our readers but have heard of the celebrated American President, Jefferson. With some infirmities, this man had many virtues. He possessed a very large fund of shrewdness, sagacity, and practical prudence; and as in life, so in death, he spake golden wisdom to mankind. How the following contrasts with the fulsome absurdity which loads the monuments of European royalty! JEFFERSON'S TOMB. The following is a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Mr. Jefferson, late President of the United States, viz. : HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statutes of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, or cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we His ten good rules to be observed in do willingly. practical life: 8. When angry, count ten before you 1. Never put off till to-morrow what speak: if very angry, one hundred. you can do to-day. 9. Take things always by the smooth 2. Never trouble others for what you est handle. can do yourself. 10. In all cases when you cannot do 3. Never spend your money before as well as you would, do the best you you have it. can. Poetry. THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS. BY H. W. LONGFELLOW. "Eternity is a pendulum, the oscillating click of which says and re-says, without ceasing, two words only, as amidst the silence of the grave,- For ever-never! Never-for ever!""-Jacques Bridaine. SOMEWHAT back from the village street Tall poplar trees their shadows throw; Half way up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its hands, Never-for ever!" By day his voice is low and light; Through days of sorrow and of mirth, |