of enjoying more happiness from this day forward than he can have by following any other course. A vigorous constitution, strength of mind, and agreeable manners, not only make old age comfortable, but in the acquisition of them a man has infinitely higher satisfaction than is ever dreamed of by the effeminate and licentious part of mankind. An old man of this character appreciates full well the common maxim, that virtue is its own reward. He looks back on the sunshine of a well-spent life, and feels the advantage of his temperance and virtues in the health of body and soundness of mind which he enjoys.

If we are at no pains to prepare ourselves for advanced years, we are in danger of growing insipid, and of being neglected at that period of life when soothing and attention are most necessary. see many instances of men outliving their usefulness, neglected by their friends, and

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complaining bitterly of that neglect. This

will ever happen when the disease of old age is not endured with meekness and cheerfulness. Let us not demand the sympathy of the world for a disease of which there is no hope, but let us at all events endeavour to deserve their admiration and love; for why should you bring down your grey hairs with sorrow to the grave?

I know you will say, long before reaching this point, that this man of the mountains is unequal to the task he has assumed; for what knows he of life or manners? You are wrong: we shepherds find

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Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."

And were it not that a dear and esteemed friend is at the head of moral philosophy in this country, I could so exhaust the subject that it should no more be taken up or handled here or elsewhere; and I shall conclude this discourse by one po

tent piece of advice, which will convince every person who reads it how well I see into human nature; and it is this:

Above all things on earth avoid the error too common of giving up your fortune, and the necessary independence of your character, till you part with your life. Let no misplaced love to your dearest friends, nor even to your children, prevail on you to do this; else you shall assuredly shed the tear and rue the deed. It is better to be deceived by the flattering attentions of those who expect something from you, than to be neglected by those who think you past the use of living. Old men are often deceived into this conduct by their fondness and folly, and it never fails to embitter their remaining days. They absurdly imagine that affection pulls as strongly on the side of youth as on that of age; and nothing can convince them of the law of nature on this point except the trial. I adjure every man, especially such whose means

of subsistence and exertions are linked together, never to give up his power of superintendency and direction as long as he is able to act, even though not with his usual vigour. Unless from severe sickness or mental derangement, I cannot suppose any person unfit to direct the business of his own family; why, then, should he reduce himself to a situation in which he may be jealous of encroachment, or in which those about him may think that he is so. The man who does this is sure to bring down his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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SERMON II.

YOUNG WOMEN.

"Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings, and the nosejewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crispingpins, the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.”

THIS is a most extraordinary enumeration of our evangelical prophet's. I have always thought that the present age overtopped all former ones in emulation for fine dresses and ornaments of every de