partout ou vous verrez regner la regle sans tristesse, la paix sans esclavage, l'abondance sans profusion, dites avec confiance, c'est un etre heureux qui commande ici.—Pour moi, je pense que le signe le plus assuré du vrai contentement d'esprit, est la vie retirée, et domestique; et que ceux qui vont chercher sans cesse leur bonheur chez autrui, ne l'ont point chez eux-memes. Un pere de famille qui se plait dans sa maison, a pour prix les soins continuels qu'il s'y donne, la continuelle jouissance des plus doux sentimens de la nature. Seul entre tous les mortels, il est maitre de sa propre felicité, parce qu'il est heureux comme Dieu meme, sans rien desirer de plus que ce dont il jouit. Comme cet Etre immense, il ne songe pas à amplifier ses possessions, mais à la rendre veritablement siennes par les relations les plus parfaites, et la direction la mieux entendue; s'il ne s'enrichit pas par des nouvelles acquisitions, il s'enrichit en possedant mieux ce qu'il a. Il ne jouissoit que du revenu de ses terres; il jouit encore de ses terres mêmes, en presidant à leur culture, et les parcourant sans

cesse.

Son domestique lui étoit étranger, il en fait son bien, son enfant, il s'approprie. Il n'étoit maître qu'a prix d'argent; il le devient par l'empire sacré de l'estime et des bienfaits. Que la fortune le depouille de ses richesses, elle ne sauroit lui ôter les cœurs qu'il s'est attachés; elle n'ôtera point des enfans à leur père; toute la difference est, qu'il les nourrissoit hier, et qu'il sera demain nourri par eux. C'est ainsi qu'on apprend à jouir veritablement de ses biens, de sa famille, et de soi-même; c'est ainsi que les details d'une maison deviennent delicieux pour l'honnête homme qui sait en connoître le prix; c'est ainsi que loin de regarder ses devoirs comme une charge, il en fait son bonheur, et qu'il tire de ses touchantes et nobles fonctions la gloire, et le plaisir d'être homme.-Rousseau.

If a family lives in peace; and harmony, and righteous discipline, let each member of it acknowledge daily that this blessing comes from God, from whom alone any good can flow. If, on the other hand, any evil arises among them, let them see in it that which would have been their continual course, but

for the restraining hand of their merciful Father; and thank him for having permitted it whereby they have been reminded again of their continued innate depravity, which is ever ready to break out.

The earliest priesthood on earth was that of the heads of families. The Levitical priesthood having ceased when sacrifices ceased, there is no longer a priesthood upon earth. Every true believer is, indeed, a spiritual priest, but that is only in the resurrection body of the Lord Jesus. The title of priest is one of the absurd inventions of the Bishop of Rome. No person has a right to take the office of instruction to the family out of the hands of its head. The head, indeed, may invite a Christian brother, whether clerical or lay, to be his deputy for a season, in the instruction of the family, in heading its worship, or in invoking God's blessing on his bounty, furnished at its meals; but it is still only as the deputy of the head of the family that any clergyman, can so act, not in virtue of any sacerdotal character.

An essay on a practical subject should

apply itself to the customs, follies, and vices, of the time in which it is written, because that form of these several evils which is most prevalent in the world, is also that which is most likely to offer the strongest temptation to professors of religion: for this reason, some remarks are necessary upon a few points which the afore-mentioned excellent works have left untouched. The following observations are from one of our most popular literary journals, upon the subject of travelling in foreign countries, a mania which has seized many families professing religion, as well as others; and who ought to have had better employment for their money and

their time.

"The tide of travel has of late set impetuously over every part of Europe, carrying with it all sorts and conditions of people. The wonted habits of social and family life amongst us have all been modified more or less by this cause. We will not indulge in

declamation on the honourable condition of an English gentleman residing the greater part of the year on his estate; the centre of

family connexions; preserving the attachment, encouraging the industry, sustaining the moral habits of his tenantry, and performing his various local duties. What is the condition of the country-seat of the absentee proprietor? the mansion-house deserted and closed, the old family servants dismissed; the surrounding cottagers, who have derived their support from the vicinage, deprived of this, pass into destitution and wretchedness; either abandoning their homes, throwing themselves upon parish relief, or seeking provision by means yet more desperate. The charities and hospitalities which belong to such a mansion lie dormant; the clergyman is no longer supported and aided in his important duties; the family pew in the church is closed; and the village churchyard ceases to be a place of pleasant meeting, where the peasant's heart is gladdened by the kindly notice of his landlord. Is it to be wondered at that distress and crime should follow close upon all this? and if it be so, are those altogether innocent who can consent to forfeit the fair condition in which Providence