The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

THE GOSPEL ELM.—This old tree, under which it is
reported Charles 11. passed in company with Miss Leigh,
after the Battle of Worcester, is about to he cut down.
The old veteran is supposed to have lived 300 years, and
measures 27 feet round at the base.
DISINGENUOUSNESS.-When the majestic form of
truth approaches, it is easier for a disingenuous mind to
start aside into a thicket till she is past, and then re-
appearing say, " It was not truth," than to meet her, and
bow, and obey.—J. Foster.
THANKFULNESS.—A minister, expressing his thank-
fulness to a brother clergyman for a merciful deliverance,
said, " As I was riding here to-day, my horse stumbled,
and came very near throwing me from a bridge, where
the fall would have killed me on the spot; but I escaped
unhurt." " I can tell you something more than that,"
said the other; " as I rode here to-day my horse did not
stumble at all." We are too apt to forget common mer-
cies. _ _

THE BlBLE.—There is no other volume in the world
which grows in interest by repeated reading. We may
study Bacon, Butler. or Boyle, but as soon as the argu-
ment is appreciated and the truth appropriated, the mind
labours through another reading. But every passage in
the New Testament is fruitful of veiled suggestions, and
the more spiritual the mind of the reader, the more fruit-
ful of good is the passage read. Because one passage
suggests others, and thus, like links of a chain, attains
some new or some impressive views of God's character
and human duty.
CunE FOR ILL-TEMPER.—A sensible woman of the
Doctor's acquaintance (the mother of a young family)
entered so far into his views upon this subject, that she
taught her children from their earliest childhood to con-
sider ill-humour as a disorder which was to be cured by
physic. Accordingly she had always small doses ready,
and the little patients whenever it was thought needful
took rhubarb for the crossness. No punishment was re-
quired. Peevishness or ill-temper and rhubarb were
associated in their minds always as cause and effect.—
The Doctor.
THE STORY OF MOSES.—This is one of the most pic-
turesque of our Scripture narratives. What a horrid
system must have obtained in Egypt when every Hebrew
male child, if detected by any of the people, beloved to
be destroyed by them. How cruel to the Hebrews, how
barbarizing to the Egyptians. No romance could have
been more skilfully framed for this purpose of setting all
the affections in play than this simple and beautiful story.
The placing of the babe by the river ; the watching of
him by his sister ; the approach of Pharaoh's daughter to
the spot ; the crying of the child, and its influence on the
sensibilities of a woman's heart ; the offer of the sister to
call a nurse, and thus the restoration of the babe to its
own mother again. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, this
act of Moses' parents is said to have been by faith ; and
we cannot doubt that all was overruled by the providence
of God, even to the very suggestion which prompted the
measure they took with their child. Whether they had
in any degree the light of a revelation for what they did,
they must at least have felt a certain confidence in the
•protection of Him who is invisible, else they would not
have been remarked by the Apostle among the Old Testa-
ment worthies who through faith obtained a good report.
Chalmers' Daily Scripture Readings.