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STRIPPING, whom "a proud father has en-


co0ragcj to practise the sigks Of kos
Pstality-hy most powerful Of all in


centiyes, the influence Of paternal CT


.@pIes Every guest who treads the


threshoad, sees disI Iayed, the sparkling


bquor-and the child early associates


with this exhibition, generous and nsoss-
!y5eekng. He learns TO quaG the poi.
s0Oous portion, and as be mingles in
society, soon becomes fascinated with


fsexhiIarating effects.


Turn over few more leaves in the
hook Of his life: see him on the road
to nsarket-in the convivial party.
His tongue b~trays the dreadful secret;
ne has been drinking to excess, and is
nov intoxicated. That youth is lost !;
and i4bis parents, had not been blinded
by most delusive custom, they would
at this moment, endure as much agor.y
Of feeling a. those more favored indi-
viduals, who could cxclaim with crate
tul emotion, "these our childre., were
dead and are alive again-tbey we're
lost and are found"


One important lesson mo y be deriv-
ed from the humane enterpri.e, above
detailed that the Phiia,,thropist need
never despair Of SUCCESS; even when
the prospect is mort gloomy. We
have reason to believe that a blessing
viii rest upon his cxertions; and that
the apathy Of ths: pr oie.sor Of religion,
and the SCOTS Of the desolute. will in
time, yield to the well-directed efforts
OF those whose hearts are enlisted in
the cause Of reformation.