When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed. The primitive sincerity will accompany the primitive piety in her flight from the earth, and then interest will succeed conscience in the regulation of human conduct, till one man cannot trust another further than he holds him by that tie: hence, by the way, it is, that although many are infidels themselves, yet few choose to have their families and dependents such; as judging,—and rightly judging, that true Christians are the only persons to be depended on for the exact discharge of their social duties. BISHOP HORNE.

Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage; and therefore the reputation of honesty must first be gotten, which cannot be but by living well a good life is a main argument. — BEN JONSON.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character; and if anybody reports you not to be an honest man, let your practice give him the lie; and to make all sure, you should resolve to live no longer than you can live honestly; for it is better to be nothing than a knave.—ANTO

NIUS.

The arts of deceit and cunning do continually grow weaker and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them; whereas integrity gains. strength by use; and the more and longer any man practices it, the greater service it does him,

by confirming his reputation, and encouraging those with whom he hath to do to repose the greatest trust and confidence in him, which is an unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs

of life.-TILLOTSON.

Devotion;

OR,

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

DEVOTION is the secret of success,

And heaven's perennial fount of happiness.

Devotion marshals all the powers of mind,
With every longing of the heart combined;

And from the free united exercise
All blessed hopes and expectations rise.

The river of beneficence to man,
Devotion wafts the worker to the van;

And goes forever flowing through the earth,
To bring all grand, enduring things to birth.

Devotion cheers the toiler through the day,
And keeps the sense of weariness away.

Devotion makes the garden of the Lord,
The deed its own exceeding great reward.

Devotion bears the lover to his love:
Devotion lifts the saint to God above.

And so Devotion brings success, the best
And dearest presence to the human breast.

It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich in self-culture, growth in wisdom, and in business. Even when men are born to wealth and high social position, any solid reputation which they may individually achieve is only attained by energetic application; for, though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible for him to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture. Indeed, the doctrine that excellence in any pursuit is to be achieved by laborious application only, holds, as true in the case of the man of wealth as in that of Drew and Gifford, whose only school was a cobbler's stall, or Hugh Miller, whose only college was a Cromarty stone-quarry.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to