The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-06-29

What reason then have we to say
as we walk the streets, the hour is COM
ing when | shall behold you no more !;
and when we enter our dwellings, TO
say the grave is my home: this apparel /
now lay aside and resume, shall soon
lay aside forever; and this bed on
which | rest my weary body, will be by
and by chilled with the dampness of
death from this sinking frame. Lord !!
make me 10 kaov mig end and the measure
OF my days. In our walks we see many
going to their long home, and the
mourners going about the streets. We
enter the sanctuary, and miss those
with whom we once took sweet counsel,
and with whom we went to the house
Of God Their places know them no
more. We enter our own dwellings
and those OF our irlends, anu pdruru. -
collections are awakened by the vacant
seats they once occupied, and by sight
of thee books they had read and mark
ed nth their own hands. We walk
from room to room and sigh for lover
and fIend: hast Thou, we inquire, put
far fIom me my acquaintance. But in
the midst of the very varying scenes,
divinegrace preserves a balance in the
soul. 10 prosperity it serves to keep
us humble; in adversely it sustains our
spirit; and while we enjoy its benefits
in the life which now is, we are called
10 look beyond this mutable world TO a
state of perfect and Interchangeable hap
piness.-Death ends our toll and strife,
and brings us 10 that rest which remains
for the people of God"
Methodist MGgazane.-
Iiocrates, an Athenian, thus addressed
young man =" Act towards your pa
rents, as you would that your children
should one day act towards youth
your most secret actions suppose that
you have all the world for witnesses.
Do not fatter yourself that reprehensi-
Bile actDns can remain in oblivion; you
may perhaps concealthem from others,
but meter from yourself. Employ your
leisure hours in listening to the CONVEX
sation cf the wise. Deliberate slowly,
execni e promptly. Comfort distressed
virtue; liberality, well applied. con-
stitutes the treasury of the worthy man.
| When you shall be invested with some
important office, never employ bad
men; when you quit it, let it be with
glory rather than with wealth"
In the spring of life, when reason
and experiencs,are necessarily confined
almost every object rises clothed il
vivid hues; earth appears paradise
and its inhabitants little short of perfec'
ton; alas as the man advances, as he
becomes acquainted with his fellow
men, how are all these splendid visions
scattered on the winds he behold'
passions the most baneful devsstate thi!
beauteous globe;and witnesses, with hor
\ ror and dismay, its wretched inbabltant
immediate each other on the affairs o
avarice and ambition. Starting from
the dream of youth, he turns disguised
from the loathsome scene perhaps re
tires to commune with himself, to pause
upon the lot of mortality.
"To this important crisis, many OF thu
characters, which adorn or blot the rec
ords of humanity, owe their origin
He, who can call religion and literature
to his aid, will pass along the road o
life intent on other worlds, and alon'
employed in this, in accelerating tn
powers of intellect, and in melioratin!
the condition of his species. From tn
crimes and follies of mankind, from tn
annals of blood, and the orgies Of volup
tuousness, will this man fly to no uDproi
table solitude; here will he trace th
finger Of the Deity, and here, amid tn
pursuits of science, the charms of mu
sic, and the pleasures of poetry, wit
simplicity of heart, and energy of gen
ius, will adore the God who gave them.
| When Alcibiades was pluming him
self upon his numerous farms aud pc:
sessions, Socrates drily asked TO Sc
them upon map of the earth, whic
was hanging before them. What
striking lesson for human vanity!
| A1fT SH,~AEN MANAN