Go not forth hastily to strive.

Wealth makes wit waver.

9. It is not to become a slave to carping care, at the expense of body and mind, heart and soulwearing out the body, starving the mind, palsifying the heart, and ruining the soul.

1. Mercantile success does, to be sure, involve the fact of gaining money.

2. It is a glorious instrument of power, when used to promote the welfare of others.

3. Success secures the approbation of the world; for, as the wise man says, "Men will praise thee when thou doest well for thyself."

4. Success enables the merchant to possess all the
means and appliances for his own comfort and that
of his family.

5. It secures for him the blessedness of giving—
the sweet indulgence of alleviating human suffering.
6. It furnishes the means of encouraging and pro-
moting art, science, literature, morality, and religion.
7. It secures rest from turmoil and anxiety at the
close of life, and leisure to look forward to eternity.

CALL upon a man of business upon matters of business, in the hours of business; transact your business, and when you have finished your business, go about your business, in order that the person called upon may attend to his own business.

A prating fool shall fall.

The wicked shall fall into mischief.

Action is the test of the soul.

One volunteer is worth

RESOLUTION OF SOUL

NERGY and force of character are among the first requisites essential to success in business. A man may possess a high degree of refinement, large stores of knowledge, and even a well-disciplined mind, but if he is destitute of this one principle, which may be termed resolution of soul, he is like a watch without a mainspring-beautiful, but inefficient, and unfit for service. Man was never made to act the part of an automaton, or mere machine. His powers are not designed to move quite so mechanically. He is to act, as well as to be acted upon. He must give life and stimulus to his calling. Is he not endued with a life-giving power, whose emanation is referred to that original source whence alone can be derived all inspiration? Man's efficiency must give character to his business. That employment upon which is stamped the impress of a living and energetic soul will do honour to any man, in any place, or at any age. It is poor policy, indeed, to loiter till driven by force. We thereby lose all the pleasures of satisfaction. Voluntary service, urged forward by a determined purpose, will give hopeful assurance if not a full warrant of success, and all the happiness

Twenty pressed men.

Idleness is a canker which destroyeth.

Even a child is known by his doings.

Action, action, action!

of a just conquest. Behold the sluggish man! His
occupation is a worthy one, but it finds him un-
worthy of the trust. It presses upon him with all
the demand of imperative necessity. It finds him
but a drone. He is confused by a multiplicity of
cares. He is pressed down by a crowd of responsi-
bilities, but makes no generous effort to discharge
one of them. Thus his occupation suffers, his family
are in want, and that good name, which is better
than great riches, is lost. True, man is said to be a
creature of circumstances, and he ought to be, in a
sense, subject to the superintendence of a leading
Providence; but this does not justify inertness of
character. Man, by his own decision of character
and determined spirit, can do much to remove and
surmount the inconveniences and barriers incident to
human life. Then be resolute, and both you and
your business will go on and prosper.

ACTION AND IDLENESS.

ACTION is really the life, business, and test of the
soul; but idleness offers up a similar soul as a blank
to the Evil One, for him to write his name upon.

SOUTH.

Good resolution leads to success.

Perverse lips put far from thee.

Take time by the forelock.

There is nothing worth doing,

HOW TO RISE IN THE World.

HE young should begin life with a standard of excellence before them, to which they should readily conform themselves. There should be a fixed determination to make the best of one's self, in whatever circumstances we may be placed. Let the young man determine that whatever he undertakes he will do well; that he will make himself master of the business upon which he enters, and always prepare himself for advancement by becoming worthy of it. It is not opportunity of rising which is wanting, so much as the ability to rise. It is not the patronage of friends and the outward helps of fortune, to which the prominent men of our country owe their elevation, either in wealth or influence, so much as to their own vigorous and steady exertions. We hear a great many complaints, both among young men and old, of the favouritism of fortune, and the partiality of the world; but observation leads us to believe that, to a very great extent, those who deserve promotion obtain it. Those who are worthy of confidence will have confidence reposed in them. Those who give evidence of ability and industry will find opportunity enough for their exercise.

Which is not worth doing well.

"Start too late" never wins the race.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour.

Do thy work with all diligence,

Take a familiar illustration. A young man engages in some business, and is, in every respect, a beginner in life. A common education is all that he possesses. He knows almost nothing of the world, and very little of the occupation on which he has entered. He performs his duty from day to day sufficiently well, and does what he is expected to do. But it does not enter into his mind to do anything beyond what is required, nor to enlarge his capacities by reading or reflection. He is, at the best, a steady plodding man, who will go forward, if at all, very slowly, and will rise, if at all, to no great elevation. He is not the sort of person who is looked for to occupy a higher position. One opportunity of advancement after another may come directly within his reach, and he asks the influence of friends to help him to secure it. They give their aid feebly, because they have no great hopes of success, and are not confident of their own recommendation. As a matter of course, some one else, more competent or more in earnest, steps in before him, and then we hear renewed complaints of favouritism and injustice. Such an one may say in his defence that he has been guilty of no dereliction of duty; that no fault has been found with him, and that, therefore, he was entitled to advancement. But this does not follow. Something more than that may reasonably be required. To bestow increased confidence, we require

Honesty, and devotion.

Put away from thee a froward mouth.