who detect in this vice the germ of anarchy and murder, and repudiate it from their hearts. and from their thoughts.

Against these Foes of Society we can legislate but imperfectly, at best. Their retri bution is with God, not with Man. Politics cannot save us from their fury-Religion may and ought. The sanctions and restrictions of a pure, liberal, and practical Religion may be so impressed upon men, as to reveal the guilt and hideousness of these evils, and to cause their extinction. The great need of men is the enlightenment of their moral sense. A true Religion, earnestly enforced, by winning the sympathies of men and putting their faculties in tune will accomplish this most essential work. It is, therefore, the duty of Society to favor the establishment and extension of that Gospel, which looks to God, and not to Tradition, for Truth and Wisdom,-which inculcates Universal Justice and Illimitable Love, which honors every man for the divinity with which he is endowed,-which gives free expansion to every quality of man's

nature, and gratifies every hope and sympa

thy of the human soul.

"Grant us, oh God! that in thy holy love
The universal people of the world

May grow more great and happy every day;
Mightier, wiser, humbler, too, towards Thee.
And that all ranks, all classes, callings, states
Of Life, so far as such seem right to Thee,
May mingle into one, like sister trees,
And so in one stem flourish :-that all laws
And powers of government be based and used
In good and for the people's sake :-that each
May feel himself of consequence to all,

And act as though all saw him.

*

The bells of Time are ringing changes fast.

Grant, Lord! that each fresh peal may usher in

An era of advancement, that each change

Prove an effectual, lasting, happy gain.

That Truth no more be gagged, nor Conscience dungeoned,
Nor Science be impeached of godlessness,

Nor Faith be circumscribed, which as to Thee,

And the soul's self affairs is infinite;

But that all men may have due liberty

To speak an honest mind in every land,、
Encouragement to study, leave to act

As conscience orders. We entreat Thee, Lord!
For thy Son's sake, to take away reproach

Of all kinds from Thy Church, and all temptation
Of pomp or power political, that none

May err in the end for which they were appointed.

Be every church established, Lord! in truth.

Let all who preach the word, live by the word.

And we entreat Thee, that all men whom Thou

Hast gifted with great minds, may love Thee well,

And praise Thee for their powers, and use them most.

Humbly and holily, and, lever-like,

Act but in lifting up the mass of mind

About them.

We pray

That all mankind may make one brotherhood,
And love and serve each other; that all wars
And feuds die out of nations, whether those
Whom the sun's hot light darkens, or ourselves
Whom he treats fairly, or the northern tribes
Whom ceaseless snows and starry winters blench,
Savage or civilized,-let every race,

Red, black, or white, olive or tawny-skinned,

Settle in peace and swell the gathering hosts

Of the great Prince of Peace! Oh! may the hour
foon come when all false gods, false creeds, false prophets,-
Allowed in Thy good purpose for a time,-
Demolished, the great world shall be at last
The mercy-seat of God, the heritage

Of Christ, and the possession of the Spirit"

FESTUS.

IX

THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMANITY.

2 COR. iii. 18. But we all, with open face, beholding, as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Piety purifies the soul to see

Perpetual apparitions of all grace

And power, which to the sight of those who dwell

In ignorant sin are never known. Obey

Thy genius, for a minister it is

Unto the Throne of Fate. Draw to thy soul

And centralize the rays which are around
Of the Divinity, *

*

Think on noble thoughts and deeds,

Ever. Count o'er the rosary of Truth.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.

THAT the human character assimilates itself to whatever object it becomes most familiar with, and gradually possesses itself of the essence of the Idea it most contemplates, is one of the clearest facts of mental and moral philosophy. And so universal is the recogni

tion of this fact, that we permit it to govern many of the practical details of our existence. We do not willingly thrust ourselves before Evil Examples. We shrink from brutal spectacles and vicious associates. We warn Youth against their contamination and their snares. We would have our friends avoid the threshold of artful Villainy, as a den of coiled serpents, gifted with alluring tongues. We would no sooner leave them to the temptations of insinuating Vice, than to the deadly atmosphere of a Lazaretto, made populous by the Pestilence.

Now the good or evil influence of all religious ideas depends on the character of the images they present to us, and their power over our minds and lives. In Religion, the most momentous thoughts are suggested, and the most potent images evoked. We are led to contemplate the awful significance of our Existence, and to acknowledge God in the majesty of Omnipotence. We behold the Universe created by the breath of His Pleasure, guided by the sovereignty of His Wisdom, ruled by the energy of His Power, and