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yam will grow,

de cotton blow,

We'll hab de rice an' corn:

Oh, nebber you fear, if nebber you hear

De driver blow his horn!

We pray de Lord: he gib us signs

Dat some day we be free;
De Norf-wind tell it to de pines,

De wild-duck to de sea;

We tink it when de church-bell ring,››
We dream it in de dream;

De rice-bird mean it when he sing,

De eagle when he scream.

De yam will grow, de cotton blow,

We'll hab de rice an' corn :

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Oh, nebber you fear, if nebber you hear
De driver blow his horn!

We know de promise nebber fail,

An' nebber lie de word;

So, like de 'postles in de jail,

We waited for de Lord:

ANECDOTE FOR SWEARERS.

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An' now he open ebery door,

An' trow away de key;

He tink we lub him so before,

We lub him better free.

De yam will grow, de cotton blow,
He 'll gib de rice an' corn an
So nebber you fear, if nebber you hear
De driver blow his horn!

We dare not share the negro's trust,

Nor yet his hope deny;

We only know that God is just,

And every wrong shall die.

ANECDOTE FOR SWEARERS.

"What does Satan pay you for swearing?" asked a gentleman to one whom he heard using profane language.

"He don't pay me anything," was the reply.

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'Well, you work cheap to lay aside the character of a gentleman, to inflict so much pain on your friends and civil people, and to risk losing your own soul-and all for nothing! You certainly do work cheap, very cheap, indeed."

SECRET FAULTS.

If secret faults are indulged, they will, sooner or later, leak out like smothered fires, and the true character of the heart will be developed. They cannot always be concealed, and God designs that they shall not always be. But no man becomes suddenly vile. There has been a long previous preparation. The man who betrays his country, as Arnold sought to do, does not perform such a deed in one act of sudden temptation. Far back in guilty pleasures, in extravagance of living, in secret dissatisfaction with his commander and his country, in disappointed ambition, envy, malice and covetousness, is laid the foundation of the enormous crime; and the act of treason is just the exponent of the man's secret guilt.

'FAULT FINDING.

Having in my youth notions of severe piety, (says a celebrated Persian writer,) I used to rise in the night to watch, pray, and read the Koran. One night as I was engaged in these exercises, my Father, a man of practical mind, awoke while I was reading.

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Behold," said I to him, "your other children are lost

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in irreligious slumbers, while I alone awake to praise God." Son," he answered, "it is better to sleep than to wake to mark the faults of thy brethren."

LIFE A FAILURE.

When a man, after a long life of trial and anxiety, has procured for his family the comforts and luxuries of affluence; what a crushing weight falls upon them as he makes the startling announcement, "I have failed."

What bitter disappointment, what agony does the wretched man feel, as he contemplates the ruin of all his prospects the blasting of all his cherished plans!-Yet for such a man there may be hope. Resolution, industry and perseverance may regain what he has lost, and restore to his family their customary enjoyments. But there is a Failure which admits of no recovery, of no hope: a failure the consciousness of which sends a thrill of unutterable horror through the dying man's soul, as he is forced to exclaim, "My Life has been a Failure."

ON THE ERRORS OF YOUTH.

In curbing early impetuosity and converting it into steady perseverance in affairs, and cool intrepidity in dangers, we shall pass through life safely and prosperously,

and with as little experience of evil as wisdom can ensure in a world where wisdom does not reign alone. The sum and glory of these individual improvements are a rich progress in Christian wisdom-a mind beautifully inlaid with the thoughts of angels, and wrought about with the signs and marks of Heaven. Bear this yoke for a while when, you are young, that you may be free when you are old; that you may walk through life unmanacled by passions, unchained by lusts, spurning the lash of Satan, and deriding the bondage of sin; that you may come to that holy and happy land where no yoke is borne; where the souls of just men are illumined with amazing glory, and compassed round about by the holiness of God.

ON SELF EXAMINATION.

Nor let it be supposed, that in urging our fellow creatures to self-examination, we put them upon any exercise which is difficult or profound; or in which one human creature can make a greater progress than another; for it is fine to observe, that reason, when she meddles with science, or with anything which has a cold and distant connection with human life, can wait to be intricate and subtle; she can toil through many steps, and be content with small acquirements, and wait patiently and retrace care

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