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close sooner than any thing else"


The idle man, If affiuent, has many temp
ta,ions which the poor avoids The great
d;fIicuItv with ;he rich ider is to kill time,
20 find agreeable or exciting enjoyment. In
this pursuit, the winecup, the gaming table,
and even worse sources of depravlty are re-
sorteIto. If the career be unchecked, 1t
will indeed be brief But adversely some
times steps in, either in the form OF sickness,
sorrow or disappointment, and recalls the
mad devolee to reason reflection, and some
times 10 virtue. How many, indeed--who
when first prostrated upon bed OF Sickness
were dead 10 all the gentle and nobler chars
tiles of nature, have risen chastened and re-
generated How many have discovered
concealed blessings in apparent mlsfortunes,
and rejoiced in after life, at vIcIssltatlons OF
adversitv. which at first maddened theml
"Unbroken worldly prosperity has natu-
raj tendency to harden the sympathles:
when life comes so easily to ourselves, II is
difficult to fancy il going hardly with others


Without any permanent object for exerIlcn
of any kind. we are apt soon 10 sink into
habits of indolent Indulgence, and such are
inevitably selfish" 1t is. therefore, that the
uses of adversely are sweet. Misfortune IS
often calculated to make US understand our
mere mortality, our dependence upon Prov
idence, and the truth, beauty and saving IN
fluence, under all circumstances. Ofthe god
like principles of Christianity.


Love AND Many man has
seen his choice for partner in life, in the
hambIe girl, far beneath him in the opinion
OF the world, aud although love and pride
might have struggled with him for while,
yet pride triumphed, and he sought one from
higher walks of life. 10 all the vicisltudes
of social existence nothing can be capable
of inflictinS more certain misery than is sure
to follow such course--It disjracts the
general harmony of our days mis- shares our
ends, shortens me length of our life, lessons
the stature of manhood, and is coatrary 10
the plain instruction of reason, for it de-
clares that where love is. there is peace,
and plenty Of thrtfiuess. Every thing good
is sure to follow happy union. Let no
/ pride interfere in this matter"