Jane Taylor.

Conservatism

The friend I loved has thither fled,
With whom I sojourned here;
I see no sight, I hear no tread,
But may she not be here?

I see no light, I hear no sound,

When midnight shades are spread;
Yet angels pitch their tents around,
And guard my quiet bed.

The Saviour whom I long have sought,
And would, but cannot see,

And is He here? O wondrous thought!
And will He dwell with me?

Give me to see Thee, and to feel
The mental vision clear;
The things unseen, reveal, reveal!

And let me know they're near.

We cannot get on without linking our present is Progressive. and our future with our past. All reaction is

destructive, all progress conservative. When

we have destroyed that which the past built

up,
what reward have we? We are forced
to fall back, and have to begin again anew.
"Novelty," as Lord Bacon says, "cannot be
content to add, but it must deface." For this
very reason novelty is not progress, as the
French would try to persuade themselves and
us. We gain nothing by defacing and tramp-
ling down the idols of the past, to set up new
ones in their places; let it be sufficient to

leave them behind us, measuring our advance

by keeping them in sight.

Jameson.

In contemplation, if a man begin with cer- Doubt and tainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will Certainty. be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Bacon.

Advancement.

Every obtaining of a desire hath a show of Novelty not advancement, as motion in a circle hath a sign of progression.

Bacon.

its Effects.

Without all controversy learning doth make Learning, the minds of men gentle and generous, amiable and pliant to the Government; whereas ignorance maketh them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous.

Bacon.

Wisdom.

The mutual dependence of all the interests Political of society on each other, and the connection between social or national crime, and social or national punishment, is not merely a vision of the philosopher or a dream of the poet, but a practical principle of ceaseless operation among men, to the agency of which many of the great changes in human affairs are to be ascribed. No class can ever derive lasting prosperity but from measures which benefit equally every other class if the one is for a time enriched by the ruin of the other, it will, in the end, be proportionally punished.

:

Posterity and present times are rivals; he who pays court to the one, must reckon upon being discountenanced by the other.

Alison.

Reputation.

Sir Joshua

Reynolds.

Affected

Bluntness.

Shakspere.

Thought.

This is some fellow, who having been praised for his bluntness, doth affect a saucy rough

ness.

An honest mind, and plain, he must speak truth.

An' they will take it so: if not, he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, who, in this plainness,

Harbor more craft, and more corrupted

ends,

Than twenty silly, ducking, observants,
That stretch their duties nicely.

To have thought far too little, we shall find among the capital faults in the review of life. As to myself, I have often been severely mortified in considering if all the short scattered spaces of time in which I have strongly exerted my faculties could be ascertained, and reckoned together into one space, what a small part of life it would fill. This space, however, may be deemed the measure and the total of real life. Often, on looking back on a day or a week, we can mark out large portions in which life was of no use-in other words, was nothing worth-because the mind did nothing, and gained nothing; notwithstanding that the dial noted the rapid hours, the sun rose and set, the grand volume of Truth was expanded before us, and the great operations of Nature held their uncontrolable course. Judicious

education anxiously displays to its pupils its own insufficiency and confined scope, and tells them that this whole earth can be but a place of tuition, till it become a depopulated ruin, or an elysium of perfect and happy beings. Its object is to qualify them for entering with advantage into the greater school where the whole of life is to be spent ; and its last emphatic lesson is to enforce the necessity of an ever-watchful discipline, which must be imposed by each individual self when exempted from all external authority. Habits are growing very fast; some of them may not be good, but they still grow while we speculate on them, and will soon close like the ices from the opposite shores in the Arctic seas, except dashed by the interruption of a mighty force. Is the spectator unconcerned while they are. closing round him? or is he descanting widely on the laws of habit, till he become its victim? The mind is a traitor to itself; it will not wait while we are seeking wise principles, nor return when we have found them. Everything is education-the trains of thought you are indulging this hour, the society in which you will spend this evening, the conversations, walks, and incidents of to-morrow. And so it ought to be. We may thank the world for the infinite means of impression and excitement which keep our faculties awake and in action, while it is our important office to pre

Foster.

Experience.
Seneca.

"Time is no

more."

side over that action, and guide it to some divine result.

Consilium futuri ex præterito venit.

Hark! 'tis the trump of God,

Sounds thro' the realms abroad,
Time is no more:

Horrors invest the skies;

Graves burst and myriads rise;

Nature in agonies

Yields up her store.

Quick reels the bursting earth,
Rock'd by a storm of wrath,
Hurled from her sphere:

Heart-rending thunders roll,
Demons, tormented, howl;
Great God! support my soul,
Yielding to fear.

See! see! the incarnate God
Swiftly emits abroad

Glories benign:

Lo! lo! He comes, He's here,

Angels and saints appear:

Fled is my every fear,

Jesus is mine.

High on a flaming throne,
Rides the Eternal Son,

Sovereign, august!

Worlds from His presence fly,

Shrink from His majesty,

Stars dashed along the sky,

Awfully burst!