It is like

every vigorous effort shakes it to the foundation. setting up the machinery of a furnace, in a mere shed, without studs or braces-or like attempting to raise the steam for a large ship, in a tin boiler. Whatever talents a youth may possess, he can accomplish but little in the way of study, without a good constitution to sustain his mental efforts; and such a constitution is not a blessing to be enjoyed of course. Like almost every other gift of heaven, it is to be obtained by human providence, and in the use of means adapted to the end. How many who begin well, ultimately fail of eminence and usefulness, through excessive tenderness, and for want of skill and care in their early physical education, it is impossible to say, but that many a young man is doomed to lingering imbecility, or to a premature grave, by this kind of mismanagement; and that the subject, on which I have hazarded the foregoing remarks, is intimately connected with the vital interests of the church and the state, will not, I think, be questioned.

One thing more, I deem it important to say, before I dismiss the present topick. The finest constitution, the growth of many years, may be ruined in a few months. However good the health of a student may be when he enters college, it requires much care and pains to preserve it; and there is a very common mistake as to the real cause why so many fail. Hard study has all the credit of undermining many a constitution, which would have sustained twice as much application, and without injury too, by early rising and walking, and by keeping up a daily acquaintance with the saw and the axe. Worthless in themselves, then, as are the elements which compose this mortal frame, so essential are its healthful energies to the operations of mind, that so long as the body and soul remain united, too much care can hardly be bestowed upon the former for the sake of the latter.

LESSON CIII.

Appeal in favour of the Surviving Heroes of the Revolution.-E. EVERETT.

NOR let us forget, on the return of this eventful day, the men, who, when the conflict of counsel was over, stood forward in that of arms. Yet let me not by faintly endeavour

ing to sketch, do deep injustice to the story of their exploits. The efforts of a life would scarce suffice to paint out this picture, in all its astonishing incidents, in all its mingled colours of sublimity and woe, of agony and triumph.

But the age of commemoration is at hand. The voice of our fathers' blood begins to cry to us, from beneath the soil, which it moistened. Time is bringing forward, in their proper relief, the men and the deeds of that high-souled day. The generation of contemporary worthies is gone; the crowd of the unsignalized great and good disappears; and the leaders in war as well as council, are seen, in Fancy's eye, to take their stations on the mount of Remembrance.

They come from the embattled cliffs of Abraham; they start from the heaving sods of Bunker's Hill; they gather from the blazing lines of Saratoga and Yorktown, from the blood-dyed waters of the Brandywine, from the dreary snows of Valley Forge, and all the hard fought fields of the war. With all their wounds and all their honours, they rise and plead with us, for their brethren, who survive; and bid us, if indeed we cherish the memory of those, who bled in our cause, to show our gratitude, not by sounding words, but by stretching out the strong arm of the country's prosperity, to help the veteran survivers gently down to their graves,

LESSON CIV.

The civilization of Africa, the surest means of terminating African Slavery.-BACON.

By civilizing and christianizing the African continent, the degradation of Africans in other countries may be removed. Such a civilization of that continent implies, at its outset, the final abolition of the slave trade; in its progress, the erection of free, independent and intelligent nations; and in its completion, all the industry and enterprise of a thronging, active, enlightened population. What will be the influence of such changes on the condition of this degraded race in other lands?

Let the slave trade be abolished, and that which has been at once the cause of their present wretchedness, and one grand obstacle in the way of their improvement, is done away. While these men are sold like cattle in the shambles, what can you do for the general elevation of their character?

While thousands of fresh victims are continually poured in to swell the tide of misery, what can you do for the alleviation of this wo? Let the fountain be dried up, from which the misery has flowed, and you may operate on the evil to be remedied, with some prospect of success.

Let there be erected one free and intelligent African empire, and the reproach of the negro will cease. There is a scorn, which follows the very name of an African. He is hunted down by a contempt, which he can never escape. He is treated--whatever may be your opinion about his native character-he is in fact treated as an inferiour being. He is one of that people, who have been meted out and trodden down, plundered and sold, persecuted and oppressed from the beginning of time. And the consciousness, which he cannot evade, that he is despised by others, teaches him, at length, to despise himself, and robs him of the dignity of human character.

Now let there be erected one Christian African Republick -powerful, enlightened, and happy, like ours-whose flag shall wave in the breezes of every ocean, whose commerce shall carry wealth to every port, whose ambassadors shall demand respect in every capital, whose patriots and sages, whose poets and artists shall share the admiration of every people; and this reproach, degrading as crime, and cruel as the grave, will cease. The negro, exulting in the consciousness of manhood, will stretch out his hand unto him who hath made of one blood all nations, to dwell on the face of the earth.

Once more. Let Africa be filled with the industry of a free and enterprising population, and slavery can exist no longer. This slavery is the bitterest ingredient in that misery, which we deplore. In all that we have contemplated, there is nothing more oppressive to our best feelings, than the thought that so many millions of our fellow men are the subjects of a thraldom, which despoils them of the attributes of intellectual and moral, and even of social existence, and makes them the mere machines of avarice. BUT LET AFRICA BE CIVILIZED, AND SLAVERY MUST BE ANNIHILATED.

It is a principle, which the progress of political science has clearly and indisputably established-a principle, that illustrates at once, the wisdom of the Creator and the blindness of human cupidity—that it is cheaper to hire the labour of freemen, than it is to compel the labour of slaves. From this principle it results, that the productions of slave labour can never enter into competition, on equal terms, with the pro

ductions of free labour. An illustration of this is furnished by the fact, that the sugar of the West-Indies, which is produced by the labour of slaves, demands the assistance of a high protecting duty, before it can contend in the English market with the sugar of the East, which is raised by the hands of freemen. We see then, that the system of slavery can be supported in a country, only so long as the slave-holders can retain either a complete or partial monopoly of such articles as they are able to raise by the labour of their drudges. And thus, whenever the civilized and enterprising population of Africa shall send forth their productions to compete in every market, with the sugar, and cotton, and coffee of the WestIndies and Southern America, the planters will be compelled, by that spirit of improvement, which always springs from competition, to substitute the cheaper process for the more expensive, to adopt the labour of freemen instead of the labour of slaves, in a word to convert their slaves into freemen.

The conclusion from the principle, which I have attempted to illustrate and apply is, let Africa be civilized and every African throughout the world will be made a freeman, not by some sudden convulsion, demolishing the fabrick of society, but by the tendencies of nature and the arrangements of Providence, slowly yet surely accomplishing the happiness of man. The change will be certain indeed, as the revolution of the seasons, but gradual as the growth of an empire.

LESSON CV.

Evergreens.-PINKNEY.

WHEN Summer's sunny hues adorn
Sky, forest, hill and meadow,
The foliage of the evergreens,
In contrast, seems a shadow.

But when the tints of Autumn have
Their sober reign asserted,

The landscape that cold shadow shows,
Into a light converted.

Thus thoughts that frown upon our mirth.
Will smile upon our sorrow,
And many dark fears of today,
May be bright hopes tomorrow.

LESSON CVI.

Evening.-ANONYMOUS.

THE sun is set, the evening gray,
Slowly resumes her dusky sway,
The stars are feebly shining;
The night wind scarcely has the pow'r
To waft the fragrance from the flower,
On every leaf reclining.

And, save the murmur of yon stream,
Reflecting back bright Luna's beam
In silver radiance glancing,
No sound assails the list'ning ear,
But solemn silence, deep and clear,
Seems o'er the world advancing.

At this mild hour of eve, the mind
From every base alloy refined,

Its grosser thoughts is losing;
While calmer reason bears the sway,
And pride and passion, both give way,
Mild nature's page perusing.

LESSON CVII.

Industrious Habits necessary to a good Education.-NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

WHEN our fathers were children, they learned nothing, without paying for it a full price, in labour; our children have all sorts of expedients and facilities contrived, by which they may play and learn too, and perhaps the result will be, that their children will refuse to be cheated into learning,