A PARsIMONIoUs MAN.
The man who is little in little things is a sharp severe master; it is but in matters of small moment that he is known to his servants-and what need they care for his generosity in gold, when he is hard in sil- yer? He who is captious about bits of wood-eloquent in the art of bargaining a. bout brooms-severe in exacting his pen- ny-worth of toll fiom those he employs, is to all intents and purposes parsimonious man, let him gild his name with public be- quests as brightly as he pleases. It is by his daily conduct and habitual expenses that his character for generosity or parsi- mony must be estimated. There may be other reasons for putting ones name into benevolent subscriptions but nature speaks out in private and he who is truly generous will feel for the lowly, and be ready to aid the distressed and the deserv- ing, though unseen of others. The man who is readier with sermon than with a sixpense to the mendicant at his gate-who is so pious himself that he is afraid of en- couraging profligacy by giving aims to beg gars of suspicious morality-who stints his table lest excess of creature comforts should beget pride and lasciviousness in bis house. hold, and is austere and harsh to his depen- dants, lest by mildness he might make them forget they are seryants-may be very respectable sort of person, and good re- pute with the world; yet he is but an in different Christian, let his attendance at church or meeting house be as punctual as it may.-Family Library.