When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory. PROVERBS XXVIII. 12.

From the uttermost parts of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. ISAIAH Xxiv. 16.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. MATTHEW VI. 2.

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To sacrifice our lives for the liberties, and laws, and religion of our native land, are undoubtedly high-sounding words; but who are they that will do it? Who is it that will sacrifice his life for his country? Will the senator who supports a war? Will the writer who declaims upon patriotism? Will the minister of religion who recommends the sacrifice? Take away glory-take away war, and there is not a man of them who will do it. Willy sacrifice your life at home? If the loss of your life in London or at York would procure just as much benefit to your country as the loss of one soldier's in the field, would you be willing to lay your head upon the block? Are you willing to die without notice and without remembrance; and for the sake of this little undiscoverable contribution to your country's good? You would perhaps die to save your country; but this is not the question. A soldier's death does not save his country. The question is, Whether without any of the circumstances of war, without any of its glory, or any of its pomp, you are willing to resign yourself to the executioner? If you are not, you are not willing to die for your country; and there is not an individual amongst the thousands who declaim upon patriotism, who is willing to do it. He will lay down his life, indeed, but it must be in war: he is willing to die-but it is not for patriotism, but for glory. Crimes should be traced to their causes; and guilt should be fixed upon those who occasion, although they may not perpetrate them. And to whom are the frequency and the crimes of war to be principally attributed? To the directors of public opinion, to the declaimers upon glory; to men who sit quietly at home in their studies and at their desks; to the historian and the biographer, and the poet and the moral philosopher; to the pamphleteer; to

the editor of the newspaper; to the teacher of religion. "As long as mankind," says GIBBON, "shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters."

DYMOND'S INQUIRY.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of Time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin,
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade,
Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone,
And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men.
She never thought, but gabbled ever on,
Applauding most what least deserved applause.
The motive, the result, was nought to her.
The deed alone, though dyed in human gore,
And steeped in widow's tears, if it stood out
To prominent display, she talked of much,
And roared around it with a thousand tongues.
As changed the wind her organ, so she changed
Perpetually; and whom she praised to-day,
Vexing his ear with acclamations loud,
To-morrow blamed, and hissed him out of sight.
ROBERT POLLOK.-Course of Time.

This is true glory and renown, when God,
Looking on th' earth, with approbation marks
The just man, and divulges him through heaven
To all his angels, who with true applause
Recount his praises: thus he did to Job,

Who famous was in heaven, on earth less known ;
Where glory is false glory, attributed

To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame.
They err who count it glorious to subdue
By conquest far and wide, to over-run

Large countries, and in field great battles win,
Great cities by assault; what do these worthies,
But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave
Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote,
Made captive, yet deserving freedom more
Than those their conquerors, who leave behind
Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove
And all the flourishing arts of peace destroy.
But if there be in glory aught of good,
It may by means far different be attain'd,
Without ambition, war, or violence;
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost.

FORBEARANCE, FORGIVENESS, &c. FORBEARANCE, command of temper; lenity; mildness. JOHNSON.

Liberty is the power a man has to do, or forbear doing any particular action, according as its doing or forbearance has the actual preference in his mind. LOCKE.

I therefore beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation to which ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS IV. 1.

FORGIVENESS, pardon of an offence; tenderness; willingness to forgive. JOHNSON.

Here are introduced more heroic principles of meekness, forgiveness, bounty, and magnanimity, than all the learning of the heathens could invent.

SPRUTT.

These two words are derived from the Saxon. FOR, has in composition, the power of privation; hence To FORBEAR, means to abstain from anything, violence of temper for instance, to be patient; and to FORGIVE, signifies to remit, not to exact debt or penalty.

It is divine grace alone that can enable us to exemplify the Christian character in the forgiveness of injuries, and in the exercise of that love which would embrace even our bitterest persecutors, and extend to the whole family of man. Our blessed Redeemer, who has taught and commanded us to pray to the Almighty thus, "give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us," affords in his own person, the most illustrious example of forgiveness on record; when nailed to the cross, and about to expire in extreme agony, inflicted by those whom he came to save, he still said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke xxiii. 34.) Stephen, while suffering the tortures of death by stoning, prayed for his murderers: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." (Acts vii. 60.) And the patriarch Joseph forgave and embraced his brethren who had hated him, and sold him into captivity. In the following parable of our Saviour,

we find a beautiful and instructive illustration of love and forgiveness:

Then Peter came to Jesus and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents: but forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, which owed him an hundred pence; and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, pay me that thou owest. And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not; but went and cast him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me; shouldst not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due to him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother, their trespasses. MATTHEW XVIII. 21-35

Bear and Forbear, a phrase frequently used by EPICTETUS. This sage is said to have been an example of what he taught. He was in early life a slave at Rome, in the reign of Nero. His wicked master EPAPHRODITUS, used to divert himself with striking the poor boy's legs with a stick, and the only reply he made was, that if he gave him such heavy blows, he would break the bone, which accordingly happened. EPICTETUS merely said, "Did not I tell you, you would break my leg ?" When he after

wards obtained his liberty, and became an eminent philosopher, an iron lamp by which he studied was stolen ; "I shall deceive the thief," said he, "if he should come again, he will only find an earthen one.' ." This memorable earthen lamp was sold after his death for 3000 drachms, £75 of our money. RAY'S PROVERBS.

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The most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority, to enforce the duty of forgiveness. Let him who has never in his life done wrong, be allowed the privilege of remaining inexorable. But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes, consider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others. Common failings are the strongest lesson of mutual forbearance. Were this virtue unknown among men, order and comfort, peace and repose, would be strangers to human life. juries retaliated according to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes, would excite resentment in return. The injured person would become the injurer; and thus wrongs, retaliations, and fresh injuries, would circulate in endless succession, till the world was rendered a field of blood. Of all the passions which invade the human breast, revenge is the most direful. When allowed to reign with full dominion, it is more than sufficient to poison the few pleasures which remain to man in his present state. How much soever a person may suffer from injustice, he is always in hazard of suffering more from the prosecution of revenge. The violence of an enemy

cannot inflict what is equal to the torment he creates to himself, by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to rage in his soul. BLAIR.

The following stories, beautifully illustrate the spirit and practice of forgiveness.

A friend of mine, with whom I was at the time staying a few days as a guest, told me the following circumstance. "I once had a poor neighbour, who had a wife and several small children. His children were crying for bread, and he had none to give them. In his need he broke open my barn and stole three bushels of rye. I caused him to be arrested and brought before the court. He confessed the deed, and stated before the court the reason why he had acted as he did. He was convicted, condemned, and thrust into jail. His family, who were