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fidelity.-Desert not your friends in danger or distress. The many there are in the world whose attachment to those they call friends, is confined to the day of their prosperity. As long as that continues fhey are, anpear 4e he. affectionate and cordial. Bul as soon as their friend is under cloud, they be- gin to withdraw, and separate their ir- terest from his. In friendship of this sort, the heart, assuredly, hasnever had much concern. For the great test of true frindship, is constancy in the hour of danger adherence in the season of distress. When your friend is calumni. ated, then is the time openly and boldly | to espouse his cause. When his situa. ton is changed, or misfortupes are fast gathering around him, then is the time of affordng prompt and Jealous aid.-- When sickness or intirmity occasions him to be neglected by others, that is the opportunity which every real friend will seize of redoubling all the affectionatc attention which love suggests. These are the important duties, the sacred claims of friendship, which religion and and virtue enforce on every worthy mind.-- To show yourselves warm in this nan- ncr in the cause of your friend command esteem even in those who nave personal interests in opposing him. This honor- able zeal of friendship has, in everv age, attracted the vencration of mankind.-~

 Ii has consecrated to the latest postcri. tr, the names of those who have exnes-

 ed their lives. ip behalf of tho friends

 whom they loved: while ignomifv and

 disgrace have ever been inc portion of them who deserted their friends in the

 hour of distress Blair.