Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell! my blessing season this in thee.

Questions:-Explain the sentence "Give thy thoughts no tongue." What is an "unproportioned" act? How can we dull our palm (hand) with unknown or too youthful (unfledged) comrades? How may we "give ear" to friends without giving them our voice? How does Shakespeare advise us to dress? What does the dress often indicate? What do we often lose by lending? To whom must we above all be true? Will this prevent us from being false to others? Name some one in the New Testament who was very false to his best friend. One who was most faithful. What is meant by a blessing "seasoning" advice? How would you season meat? And fruit? Wine? A reading lesson? An instructive sermon?

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

THE FORCE OF PRAYER.

MORE things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep and goats,

That nourish a blind life within the brain,

If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer,

Both for themselves and those who call them friends?
For so the whole round world is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man, and bird, and beast;
He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

In the morning, prayer is a golden key to open the heart for God's service; and in the evening, it is an iron lock to guard the heart against sin. "He that loves his neighbor

fulfils the law."

TRUTH.

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie,

The fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

To thine own self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not, then be false to any man.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface float,
He who would seek for pearls, must dive below.

How many among us at this very hour,
Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves,
By taking true for false, or false for true;
Here through the feeble twilight of this world,
Groping, how blindly, until we pass and reach
That other, where we see as we are seen!

COMPOSITION.

Give the first quotation on "Truth" in your own words. Change the nouns, pronouns and verbs in the last.

WIT AND WISDOM.

THERE is an association in men's minds, between dulness and wisdom, amusement and folly, which has a very powerful influence in decision upon character,

and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. The reason is, that the outward signs of a dull man and a wise man are the same, and so are the outward signs of a frivolous man and a witty man; and we are not to except that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times have. been witty.

The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is eight men, not one man; that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, goodnature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit; wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men, than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age and care and pain to smile, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkwardness of

society, gradually bringing men nearer together, and, like the combined force of wine and oil, giving every man a glad heart and a shining countenance. Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavor of the mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his painful steps over the burning marl."

COMPOSITION.

Copy the first paragraph. Give sentences in which the following words will occur in the same sense as that in which they are used in this lesson:

Association, amusement, influence, difficulty, frivolous, eminent,

CURIOSITIES OF WORDS.

TRIBULATION. We all know in a general way that this word, which occurs not seldom in Scripture and in the liturgy, means affliction, sorrow, anguish; but it is quite worth our while to know how it means this, and to question the word a little closer. It is derived from the Latin tribulum, which was the threshing instrument or roller whereby the Roman husbandman separated the corn from the husks; and tribulatio, in its primary significance, was the act of this separation. But some Latin writer of the Christian Church appropriated the word and image for the setting forth of a

higher truth; and sorrow, distress, and adversity being the appointed means for the separating in men of whatever in them was light, trivial, and poor from the solid and the true, their chaff from their wheat, he therefore called these sorrows and trials "tribulations;" threshings, that is, of the inner spiritual man, without which there could be no fitting him for the heavenly garner.

MISER.Every one must, I think, acknowledge it as a remarkable fact, that men should agree to apply the word miser or miserable to the man eminently addicted to the vice of covetousness-to him who loves his money with his whole heart and soul. Here, too, the moral instinct lying deep in all hearts has borne testimony to the tormenting nature of this vice, to the gnawing cares with which even here it punishes him that entertains it to the enmity which there is between it and all joy; and the man who enslaves himself to his money is proclaimed in our very language to be a "miser or miserable man.

PASSION. There is much, too, that we may learn from the word "passion." We sometimes think of the "passionate" man as a man of strong will, and of real though ungoverned energy. But this word declares to us most plainly the contrary; for it, as a very solemn use of it declares, means properly "suffering:" and a passionate man is not a man doing something, but one suffering something to be done to him. When, then, a man or child is "in a passion," this is no coming out in him of a strong will, of a real energy, but rather the proof that, for the time at least, he has no will, no energy; he is suffering, not doing-suffering his anger, or what other evil temper it may be, to lord over him without control. Let no one, then, think of passion as a sign of strength. As reasonably might one assume