subject, but it is a pleasant testimony that I am able to give, after a close examination, that in the process of instructing the deaf mute, it has been a question with me, whether there be any disadvantage, as to their religious welfare, in the loss of human sounds of folly and error, which mislead and direct so many others. There has been an abundant success in developing the conscience, warming into life their religious sentiments, and establishing direct communion with the Father of Spirits.

6. We rejoice, therefore, in the privilege of taking part in the services of this occasion. We count it a pleasant thing to be present at the beginning of an edifice, where ample accommodations shall invite multitudes of the afflicted to its fostering care. We welcome them not only to a safe shelter, to kindly protection, to useful arts, but to the teachings and consolations of religion. We congratulate those who will come after us, afflicted like those who are now with us, in the advantages which will accrue to them from what we have founded to-day.

7. Now let Knowledge and Religion receive and educate them on these pleasant lawns,let their playful feet find recreation long after our own have rested from the pilgrimage of life. Here may God speak to them in the vision of the morning, and of the stars; and within the chapel, here to be consecrated to His worship, may generations be prepared for the Temple on high, where no tongue is silent, and no ear is deaf.

QUESTIONS.-1. What was the boast of Augustus Cæsar? 2. Of what was Rome unable to boast? 3. What have painters studied to do? 4. In what chapter and verse of the Bible is the word "Ephphatha" to be found? Ans. Mark, 7th chapter, 34th verse. 5. What is alluded to in the phrase "vicarious speech"? (See Note at the foot of preceding page.) 6. What classes of persons are meant in the words, "His afflicted children?" 7. What interesting psychological inquiries are suggested in regard to them? 8. In what has there been abundant success? 9. With what wish does this piece close?

Are the questions in the 2d paragraph direct or indirect? What inflection to each?

LESSON CLXV.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. SOR' DID, vile; base. 2. SUB' SIST, exist continue. 3. SENS' U AL IST, one given to the indulgence of the bodily appetites. 4. RE CIP' RO CA TED, interchanged; mutual. 5. IM PLI' ED, involved; included by inference. 6. AR RO GANCE, presumption; conceit. 7. SIN' IS TER, corrupt; evil. 8. DIS TORT ED, perverted 9. SUF FICE, to be enough, or sufficient. 10. EN CROACH' ING, intrud ang; claiming what belongs to another. 11. SORU' PLE, hesitate. 12. AS PER SION, calumny; false accusation. 13. DIS SEN SION, Strife discord. 14. SIM I LAR I TY, likeness; resemblance. 15. DE OLEN SION, a falling off; decay.

THE TEST OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP.

WILLIAM COWPER.

1. No friendship will abide the test,
That stands on sordid interest,
Or mean self-love erected;
Nor such as may awhile subsist,
Between the sot and sensualist,
For vicious ends connected.

2. Who seeks a friend should come disposed
T'exhibit in full bloom disclosed,
The graces and the beauties
That form the character he seeks;
For 'tis a union, that bespeaks
Reciprocated duties.

3. Mutual attention is implied,
And equal truth on either side,
And constantly supported;
"Tis senseless arrogance t' accuse
Another of sinister views,

Our own as much distorted.

4. But will sincerity suffice?
It is indeed above all price,
And must be made the basis;
But every virtue of the soul
Must constitute the charming whole.
All shining in their places.

5. A fretful temper will divide
The closest knot that may be tied,
By ceaseless sharp corrosion;
A temper passionate and fierce
May suddenly your joys disperse,
At one immense explosion.

6. How bright soe'er the prospect seems,
All thoughts of friendship are but dreams,
If envy chance to creep in;
An envious man, if you succeed,
May prove a dangerous foe indeed,
But not a friend worth keeping.

7. As envy pines at good possessed,
So jealousy looks forth distressed,

Ön good that seems approaching;
And, if success his steps attend,
Discerns a rival in a friend,

And hates him for encroaching.

8. A man renowned for repartee,
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship's finest feeling;
Will thrust a dagger at your breast,
And say he wounded you in jest,
By way of balm for healing.

9. Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers, will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention;
Aspersion is the babbler's trade,
To listen is to lend him aid,
And rush into dissension.

10. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back, How he esteems your merit,

Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed,
To pardon or to bear it.

11. A similarity of mind,

Or something not to be defined,

First fixes our attention;
So manners decent and polite,
The same we practiced at first sight,
Must save it from declension.

12. The noblest friendship ever shown,
The Saviour's history makes known,
Though some have turned and turned it;
And whether being crazed or blind,
Or seeking with a biased mind,
Have not, it seems, discerned it.

13. O friendship, if my soul forego
Thy dear delights while here below;
To mortify and grieve me,
May I myself at last appear
Unworthy, base, and insincere,

Or may my friend deceive me!

QUESTIONS.-1. What kind of friendship will not abide the test 2 What bespeaks reciprocated duties? 3. What is senseless arrogance 4. What must be made the basis? 5. What must constitute the charming whole? 6. What will a fretful, passionate temper do! 7. What is asserted of envy? 8. What, of an envious man? 9. What is said of jealousy? 10. What, of a man renowned for repartee? 11. What will lead to dissension? 12. Can you repeat the 10th stanza? 13. What first fixes our attention? 14. What must prevent declension? 15. What is the noblest friendship ever shown 16. What wish is expressed in the closing stanza!

Why

What is the use of the apostrophes in the words, ť exhibit, t' aocuse, 2d and 3d stanzas? See Sanders' Spelling Book, p. 158. are they abbreviated? Ans. For the sake of the meter

LESSON CLXVI.

4.

SFELL AND DEFINE-1. PRO GRESS' IVE, advancing; rising in grade. 2. E THE RE AL, heavenly. 3. VOID, vacancy; empty space. GRA DA TION, a degree in any order or series. 5. ES SEN TIAL, necessary; indispensable. 6. ORB' IT, the path or course of a planet in its periodical revolution. 7. HURL ED, thrown with violence. 8. RE PIN' ED, grumbled; murmured. 9. EN GINES, instruments of action; means; agents. 10. AB SURD', contrary to reason · foolish. 11. STU PEND' Ous, astonishing; amazing; vast in extent. 12. UFER ATES, performs; acts. 13. RAPT, enraptured; entranced

ORDER OF CREATION.

ALEXANDER POPE

1. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth,
All matter quick, and bursting into birth.
Above, how high progressive life may go!
Around, how wide, how deep extend below!
Vast chain of being! which from God begar
Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect, which no eye can see,
No glass can reach; from infinite to thee,
From thee to nothing. On superior powers
Were we to press, inferior might on ours;
Or in the full creation leave a void,

Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed;
From nature's chain, whatever link you strike,
Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

2. And if each system in gradation roll
Alike essential to the amazing whole,
The least confusion but in one, not all
That system only, but the whole must fall.
Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly,
Planets and suns run lawless through the sky;
Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurled,
Being on being wrecked, and world on world;
Heaven's whole foundations to their center nod,
And nature trembles to the throne of God.
All this dread order breák-for whom? for thée?
Vile wòrm!-oh, madness! pride! impiety!

3. What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread,
Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head!
What if the head, the eye, the ear repined
To serve mere engines to the ruling mind
Just as absurd for any part to claim
To be another in this general frame:
Just as absurd to mourn the task or pains
The great Directing Mind of all ordains,

4. All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is and God the soul;
That, changed through all, and yet in all the same
Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame;