"WHATSOEVER a man soweth, that shall he also reap."-Galatians, vi. 7.

AN honourable member sometimes indulges in gratuitous assertion concerning one who is not present to defend himself; which he would not dare do if the person whom he insults and slanders, were near enough to spit a contradiction in his face.

SOME hearts are like certain fruits, the better for having been wounded.

"TAKE heed that the light which is in thee, be not darkness."—Luke xi. 35.

The author of the Wisdom1 certainly held no doctrine allied to that of original sin, for he says,

VIII. 19-20, "I was a witty child, and

"WHEN kingdoms reel (mark well my saw!) Their heads must needs be giddy."

FORD, vol. 1, p. 299.

"WHEN I understand what you speak, I know what you say: believe that."— Ibid. Witch of Edmonton, vol. 2, p. 443.

"BEHOLD the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”—Job xxviii. 28.

"YEA, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo! we are here! For all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgements are in thy foreknowledge." -Judith ix. 6.

"FOR thy power standeth not in multitude, nor thy might in strong men; for thou art a God of the afflicted, an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a Saviour of them that are without hope."-Ibid. 11.

"HE maketh small the drops of water; they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof."-Job xxxvi. 27.

THE abomination of desolation is standing where it ought not.

"Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."― Mark xiii. 2.

This verse seemed to me almost appallingly applicable, when I read the chapter this morning.

Yea, rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled."

not be accessible to evil thoughts. But we who are far from this must turn from them when they assail us, and never for a moment entertain them with the will's consent. And with regard to angry and resentful emotions, which oftentimes must, and sometimes ought to arise, the sin lies in giving utterance to them, in any other manner than is solely and certainly for the good of others.

REASONS which may prevail if at some time they may happily "find your affections quiet, your understanding well awakened, and your will, willing to stand neuter."BISHOP WOMACK, Pref. Epist. to the Exam. of Tilenus.

"WOE be to fearful hearts and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways." -Ecclesiasticus ii. 12.

THE Church (using that word not in its Christian but in its ecclesiastical sense) very soon adapted itself both to the vulgar belief of the heathens and to their philosophy.

"THE words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance.”Ecclesiasticus xxi. 25.

"AN eloquent man is known far and near, but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.”—Ibid. 7.

THE increased population which is consequent upon a certain degree of misery, in a crowded community, according to Sadler's theory, may seem noticed in Exodus i. The more the Hebrews were afflicted by their Egyptian taskmasters "the more they multiplied and grew." And I think the fact may be explained physically, by the care which Nature upon the great scale takes of the race, rather than of its individuals.

My dissenting assailants.-Men who are thus manifestly" in the gall of bitterness" give proof that they are "in the bond of iniquity."-Acts viii. 23.

"LAISSEZ nous faire." But this is what no government can safely do. No government can rely enough upon the virtue, the common honesty or the common sense of its subjects to do it.

E. g. cruelty of soldiers to their prisoners, when men were to be ransomed instead of being exchanged.

Privateers. Quacks. Carriers. Posting.
Monopolists.

Let every man choose his religion.

Ecclesiasticus xxxix. 12.-" Yet have I more to say which I have thought upon;

for I am filled as the moon at the full.”

Ibid. xxviii. 31.- THE plague which "shall be ready upon earth when need is."

THE peine fort et dure by which age now destroys us.

LET any person act up to his own Chrisrender it more easy for all about him to tian principles, and by so doing he will do the same: he will take away from them all occasion for offence. For whoever sins in temper has not only his own sin to answer for, but also for that which he thereby occasions in others.

STOOPING for the golden apples of popularity in the race of fame.

"AN heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things."-Ecclesiasticus xl. 1.

"DEATH and bloodshed, strife and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the Scourge: these things are created for the wicked."-Ibid. ix. 10.

Ir is stated by SIR ANDREW HALLIDAY, that " cases of insanity have increased in this country during the last twenty years in the proportion of three to one. There

I HAVE known many men who made the most, and in that sense the best use of their abilities; but did I ever know one who made the best use of his riches?

"OH, if order were observed for every one to mend his own heart or house, how would personal amendment by degrees quickly produce family, city, country, kingdom reformation! How soon are those streets made clean, where every one sweeps against his own door!"-FULLER, Pisgah Sight, p. 327.

WHAT FULLER says of the Libertines may be said of our liberals; "such as used their liberty for an occasion to the flesh, or a cloak of maliciousness." "A numerous society, wherof Satan's subtilty and man's corruption the founders, the negligence and connivance of magistrates the daily benefactors. A college whose gates, like those of hell, stand always open, having no other statutes than the student's pleasure; where the diet is so dear, that their commons cost the souls of such as feed on them, without their final repentance."—Ibid. p. 340.

"WANTON children by breaking their parents' old rod, give them only the occasion to make a better and bigger in the room thereof."-Ibid. p. 385.

"Indeed in all fickle times (such as we live in) it is folly to fix on any durable design, as inconsistent with the uncertainty of our age; and safest to pitch up tent projects, whose alteration may with less loss and a clear conscience comply with a change of the times."-Ibid. 386. P.

DANGER from a king's wife or mistress of a different religion.—" Yea, grant at first his constancy in the truth as hard as stone, yet in continuance of time it might be hollowed with that which Solomon called a continual dropping, and restless importunity, advantaged with bosom opportunity, may achieve a seeming impossibility."-Ibid. p.

127.

"THE infection" of such a wife, he calls it.

CERTAIN subjects, which, as FULLER says of the devil's riddling oracles, (Ibid. p. 128) "like changeable taffeta, wherein the woof and warp are of different colours, seems of several hues, as the looker-on takes his station," so these " appear to every one's apprehension as he stands effected in his desires."

“Infra-annuated.”—Ibid. P. 140.

"In the mixture of all liquors of contrary kinds, the best liquor (which may be said to lose by the bargain) incorporates always with a reluctancy."—Ibid. p. 137.

"EYES dry for their sins, are vainly wet after their sufferings, and a drought in the spring is not to be repaired by a deluge in the autumn."-Ibid. p. 180.

"FEw drops seasonably showered would preserve the green blade from withering, when much rain cannot revive the roots once withered."—Ibid.

MR. FISHER of Seatoller, said upon occasion of Wells Fisher's bankruptcy— "double religion always requires double looking after."

No instrument so often out of tune as the human voice! And then all is discord.

"TZIJN de valsche begrippen omtrent de Geschiedinis, waar uit walsche begrippen van Staats-Vorsten-en Volksrecht ontspruiten; daar valsch of verkeerd en gebrekkig begrepen gebeurtenissen en daden valsche gronden opleveren, waar men hersenschimmige wetten en rechten op vest, of uit afleidt, die daarne Thronen en Natien schudden an omkeeren."-HET TREURSPEL, p. 162.

"LESLEY is said to have come to this conclusion at the latter end of his life, that