tance unto Israel." And to be clothed with this humility of spirit, is better than to be arrayed in princely garments. In the scriptures, we nowhere read that there is "joy in heaven" over men's acquirement of gold, or nobility, or splendid appointments, or crowns of worldly praise. But the humility and change of mind of which we speak, are an occasion of joy to the whole kingdom of God. DR. F. W. KRUMMACHER; from ELISHA. When the two goats, on a narrow bridge, met over a deep stream, was not he the wiser that laid down for the other to pass over him, than he that would rather hazard both their lives by contending? He preserved himself from danger, and made the other become debtor to him for his safety. I will never think myself disparaged, either by preserving peace or doing good. OWEN FELTHAM. Hast thou passed by the hedge-row at eventide? And has a delicious fragrancy been all about thee, and thou knewest not whence it came? Hast thou searched and found the sweet violet, hidden beneath its leaves, and known that it was that which gave its odours to the air around thee? Thus, my child, should the Christian make sweet the place of his abode, with the perfume of his good deeds; and thus, in all humility, should he endeavour to remain unnoticed himself. When thou seest the hungry fed, and the naked clothed; the sick man visited, and the widow comforted-search, and thou shalt find the flower whence all this odour arose; thou shalt find full often that the Christian hath been there, constrained by the love of Christ. REV. CORNELIUS NEALE. Taste not from Fame's uncertain fountain, The princely Pine, on hills exalted, Whilst the mild Rose, more safely growing, Amidst retirement's shelter blowing, J. G. Cooper. The bird that soars on highest wing, Sings in the shade when all things rest: When Mary chose the "better part," And Lydia's gently-opened heart, Was made for God's own temple meet: Fairest and best adorned is she, Whose clothing is humility. The saint that wears heaven's brightest crown, In deepest adoration bends; The weight of glory bows him down, Then most, when most his soul ascends; Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. JAMES MONTGOMERY. JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE. JUSTICE, 1. The virtue by which we give every man what is his due; 2. Punishment; 3. Right. JOHNSON. That essential perfection in God whereby he is infi nitely righteous and just, both in his nature and in all his proceedings with his creatures. CRUDEN. Justice and judgment are the habitations of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. INJUSTICE; iniquity; wrong. PSALM LXXXIX. 14. Not for any injustice in mine hands. JOHNSON. JOB XVI. 17. Jus or Juris, in Latin, means law or right, and from. this root are derived a great number of words now used; among which are JUST; JUSTICE; INJUSTICE, &c. Judex or Judicis, the Latin for a judge, is composed of Jus, law; and Dico, to tell; whence we derive JUDGMENT; JUDICATURE; JUDICIOUS; INJUDICIOUS; ADJUDICATE, and many other words. See PREJUDICE. A just man is one who is upright and sincere in his actions and dealings with others; and also one who is faithful, keeping his word and promise. Of Joseph of Arimathea, it is said, that "he was a good man and a just," (Luke xxiii. 50,) and unto him was the body of our Saviour granted by Pilate. The scripture abounds in examples of just as well as of unjust men; of the rewards and blessings showered upon the one character, and of the punishments and curses with which the other was visited. SOLOMON tells us that— The path of the just is as the shining light. Blessings are upon the head of the just. PROV. X. 6. PROVERBS X. 7. The memory of the just is blessed. PROVERBS XII. 21. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them; for this is the law and the prophets.-(Our Saviour's Sermon on the Mount.) Human laws are often so numerous as to escape our memories; and sometimes so darkly and inconsistently worded, as to puzzle and embarrass our understandings. But here is a law attended with none of these inconveniences; the grossest minds can scarce misapprehend it, and the weakest memories are capable of retaining it. Nor can there be any one so absurd and unreasonable, as not to see and acknowledge the absolute equity of this command in theory, however he may swerve and decline from it in his practice, and to agree upon it as that golden mean, which, if universally observed, would make the world universally happy, every man a benefactor to his fellow-creatures, and earth the very image of heaven. ATTERBURY. A sense of justice should be the foundation of all our social qualities. In our most early intercourse with the world, and even in our most youthful amusements, no unfairness should be found. That sacred rule of doing all things to others according as we wish they should do unto us, should be engraved on our minds. For this end, we should impress ourselves with a deep sense of the original and natural equality of man. DR. BLAIR. To do justice, and to give birth to the persuasion that justice is done, are two very different things, which, if possible, ought to be united; the latter object cannot always be successfully accomplished, but the attempt should never be neglected. LORD LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls. Justice is as strictly due between neighbour-nations as between neighbour-citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single, and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. FRANKLIN. PENN'S ADVICE TO HIS CHILDREN.-And as for you who are likely to be concerned in the government of Pennsylvania and my parts of East Jersey, I do charge you before the Lord God, and his holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender; fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss protect no man against it, for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God sees you: therefore do your duty, and be sure you see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears. Entertain no spies, cherish no informers, for gain or revenge; use no tricks, fly to no devices to support or cover injustice; but let your hearts be upright before the Lord, trusting in him above the contrivances of men, and none shall be able to hurt or supplant. Frail creatures are we all, that we should sit And tints,—white, black, and tawny, Greek and Goth, Northmen and offspring of hot Africa; The all-Father, he in whom we live and move, Nations, and hues, and dialects alike. According to their works shall they be judged, Their good and evil weighs. All creeds, I ween, SOUTHEY. LOVE, PHILANTHROPY, &c. LOVE. Kindness; good-will; friendship; tenderness; JOHNSON. fondness; concord; principle of union. LOVE is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the universe. Love is such an affection as cannot properly be said to be in the soul, as the soul to be in that; it is the whole man SOUTH. wrapt up into one desire. LOVE is a gracious principle or habit, wrought in the soul by God, which inclines us to delight in, esteem, and earnestly desire to enjoy an interest in God's favour and communion with him, as our chief good portion and happiness, and the fountain of all perfection and excellency; and which likewise disposes us to do good to all, especially to such as resemble God in holiness, and bear his image. Cruden. The word LOVE is believed to be derived from the Saxon; in which language Leof signifies beloved; from the same root we have also LOVING; LOVELY; LoveliNESS, the same words with the prefix IN, and several others. The Greek for BELOVED is Philos, from the verb Phileo, I love; and from this root is derived PHILANTHROPY, love of mankind, Anthropos being the Greek for man; PHILOSOPHY, and all words beginning with PHILO, come likewise from this root, as well as some others, one of which PHILADELPHIA, compounded of Philos, and Adelphos, a brother, signifying literally brotherly love; this is the very appropriate name given to a city of America, by the founder WILLIAM PENN, which was originally inhabited by members of the Society of Friends. A transient temporary good nature is not that Philanthropy, that love of mankind, which deserves the title of ADDISON. a moral virtue. |