WORM AT THE ROOT.
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"Good morning. neighbor Philips" SAID
sagacious farmer as he was riding past an
adjoining farm, and saw his neighbor busy
with ladder and pruning knife at fine fruit
tree: "What are you doing, that you seem
so in:ently engaged %


aAt, friend Thomas" was the reply.
'qhis is a choice and favorite tree, upon
which | have bestowed great attention, and
yet every morning l find wilhered twigs,
wi.hered leaves, and withered fruit, which
[ am under the necessity of clipping away"


THAT may all be very WELL, said Tho
mas, "but | think can show you better
way of improving your tree, and dlsmoun,
ting from his horse, be took the knife. and
barking the root, he made an incislon and
extracted worm; at the same time remar-
king. RELY upon it, rely upon 1t, II Is all
owing to the worm a. the root


MoRAL-The outward defects of human
character are but the evidences ofthe worm
at the root One swears, another cheats.
third gets drunk and the true method OF re-
form is to apply the cure 20 the native dePrav-
ay of the heart-the woTm at the Toot
-Presbytcraan.