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nEArrIruL ExTRAcr.

There is IN even tide ID human life--a
season whom the eye becomes dim and the Il
strength dec&ys--when the winter-of age be-
gins to she'd upon the human head its pro- IL
phetic SHOWS Il is the season Of hfa,t9
which the Autumn is most analogous, and II
which it becomes; and much it would pFof4 Il
you, my elder brethren, to mark the instrnc-
lion which the season brings The spring II
aud summero of YOUR days are gone, and witt
them not only Joys they knew. but many az 4
the friends who gave them You have en-, Il
tered upon the autumn Of your being, and i
whatever may have been the profusioh 81 Il
your spring, or the warm temperature of II
your SUMMER, there is season Of Stiffness,
Of solitude. which the bens6cenee; Of heaven
affords YOU inwhich 70 may med tate upon
the past aud future, and prepare yoarseiffor
the mighty change which you may soons un- Il
/ jdergo 1t Is now that you may understand /
i tie magnificent language of heagen--it min.
/ giles its voice with that Of revelation SUM
mons you to those hours when the leaves faltll
and the winter is gathering, to that evening
study which the mercy of heaven has proyi-II
ded in the hook of salvation, And While
the shaiowy valley opens which leads to the
eabode Of death it speaks of that Hye which
can comfort and save, and which conducts tb II
those green pastures and those still waters H
where there is an eternal spring for the GILL II
ldren Of God
THE EVERYDAY MARRIED LADI.3
T The everyday. married lady is the inFer
tor Of thing which few foreign nations have
Jas yet adopted either in their houses or lann
4guages This thing is comfort The
word cannot well be defined the items THAI
enter into its composition being SO numeft
Gus, that description would read like a cat
elogue We all understand, however, what
lit means, although few Of US are sensible Of
the sourceiof the enjoyment A .yEdower
! has very little comfort, and q bachelor none
Fat all-while a married man, provided his
II wife be IAN everyday married lady--enjoys
!. it in perfection But he enjoys it uncon-
/ seiously, and, therefore, ungratefully it is
\ thing Of course-necessary, right of the
/ want Of which he complains without beng
I distinctly sensible Of its presence. Even
/ when it acquires sufficient intensity to arrest
| his attention, when his features and his heart
soften. and he looks round with half smile
on his face, and says" Tins is comfort II
it never occurs to him to inquire where il all
comes from. His every day wife is sitting
quietly inthe corner: it was not she whS
III lighted the FIRE, or dressed the dinner, o.
I / drew the curtains and it never occurs t,
I him TO think that these, and a. hundred othe
! circumstances Of the moment, owe their vii
8 tue to her spiriting and that the conlfor
8 which enriehes the atmosphere, which spai
4 kles in the embers, Which broods in til
4 shadowy parts Of the room, which, giows j
4 nUr-eres' rfer' rrEe' auredff Tram her, an
2 A QUESTION FoR DEBATING soCIE
I TIES
4 Suppose 1--WE men owned piece Of IN
4 having portion of it set apart for pastu
i age in common, but each having piece r
served for his own use to till. One ma
+ owned horse, another dog, anotlef
4 flock of geese, another two goats, aud anStl
81 er had his pieceof land in meadow I'll
3 goats, yoked together, were trespassine 0
the meadow. The horse was standias i
] the common adjoining the meadow. at tn
foot of high bank ON the top Of which wer
4 the goats The dog was sitting on the road
Il The flock of geese were passing by with tn
81 gander att their head, and in order to driy,
the dog away, to make room for his ifock
4 Kissed at him, The dog, mistaking it for !
human voice, ran at the goats, who, bein.
frightened. Immediately fled, and as theS
leaped off the bank, jumped one on each side
\ of the horse standing below and there hung
u by the yoke The horse. taking fright, ran
away with the goats on his back into bond
ofwater, and drowned him self and the goats
The owner Of the horse sued the owner d
the goats FIR riding his horse into the pond
Of water the owner of the goats sued the
owner OF the dog for frightening bis goats
and the: owner Of the dog sued the owner oi
the geese, and the owner of the goats sued
the owner Of the horse for drowning his goats,
and the. owner of the meadow sued the owner
Of the goats for trespass. Who Of the per
sons are entitled to verdict 2
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