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The LiIlle Home.

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we were rich. like the Godacres. 1t is so dis.
agreeable living in small house with onlv four
rooms in 1t. II We were only rich should be
satisfied
Mrs. Harrison, sweet looking, midle-aged
lady, who sat in one corner of the room with
her youngest child, rosy-cheeked, eurly-head-
ed little fellow of four years, asleep upon her
lap, looked up with mournful smile into the
beautiful face Of her daughter.
Thousands, nv dear ehild,' she said, ARE
at this very moment breathing a similar wish
Is it not a great pity their desires cannot be
gratifed? What a happy world we should
have Don't you think we should p
There was a slight accent of irony in Mrs.
Harrison's tone, and Ella instantly preceived it..
1t seems TO me mamma. that every rich per-
son might be happy if they only would; but
presume that you are about to point me out to
the Smiths, who are the wealthiest, and still
the most miserable Of all our acquaintance
But really, my dear mother. il ce were rich,
don't you think that we should be very happy?'
i am very rich and very happy, too, said
Mrs. II. with a self-satisfied air. | know of
none in this world with whom would exchange
places
Ella dropped her crotchet work in her lap,
and looked with surprise into her mothers face.
We rich ? she exclaimed why, how do
you make that out? Wouldn't you exchange
places with the Goldacres, who live in perfect
palace and who have hosts of servants, and
who dress in silks and saLins every day ?
No would not exchange places with Mrs
Goldacre, said Mrs II. for ii l did should
have 10 resign you and Nelly and your dear
father and my brave little Tommy, who is Sleep
ing so sweetly here in my lap
oh, l did not mean that at all said Ella :;
Il did not mean that you individually, should
make the exchange. / meant that the whole
family whould share in it. Would you not be
willing to have papa take Mr. Goldacrc's prop
erty, and have him take ours 2
Mrs. Harrison shook her head.
Why not, mamma ? 1t seems to me that
you are very unreasonable
If we had their riches, my dear child, said
Mrs H. we might fall into sin, and sin brings
misery. As before told you, l already con
slider myself very rich. | am rich in my health |
rich in my husband--rch in my children
rich in my cottage home, which our industry |
has made tasteful and comfortable am rich /
in mental wealth. for we have great many
valuable books, and they have been well read
by us all. | am rich in the white roses that |
Chamber over the walls yonder, and peep with
breaths Of incense through the windows-rich .
in the golden sunshine--rich in nature-rch in .
the calm thoughts which visit all, who with /
thankful, conten;ed hearts look upwards and
say with the poet:
Praise to our Father God
High praise in solemn lay,
dixie for wh0t his hand doth gice,
Aad 0A0t takes array
But if we had more, said Ella, you would
nave more to be thankful for
4 have all that my Heavenly Father has
seen fit to give me and that is enough Think
IF the poor in the back woods of Canada,
about whom We have just been reading in Mrs
Noodles valuable work-those who have little .
or nothing with which to supply the demands
Of hunger through these interminable winters
,hink OF the thousands in cities, who ere slowed
n cellars and back rooms and garrets, and bat
haunted places, who seldom breathe the fresh
lir, or see glad sunshine-think of the poor
irish who short while ago were starving to
leath-Gaspng with their dying breaths-
Gire me three grains Of corn Only three
,roinsP Think of the millions in Africa and
Asia, who are living in mental and moral deg
edation, of which we can hardly form any con-
eption-without Bble-without civilization
without any correct idea of God and Heaven.
Contrast with these human beings our own hap
~ lot, and acknowledge yourself to be deeply l.
lngratelul. Instead OF being thankful for what
7ou have, you are murmuring because your
portion is not larger You did not order the
of your birth-you might have
oeen born on heather ground, or amid the beg
yars of surfeited Paris or London.
That is true, said Ella i never thought
# that before
my dear child, said Mrs. Harrison, arising
md deposting her burden in the cradle, our
happiness does moi depend upon external crcum-
stances. 1t lies beyond these in great de-
,ree, if not altogether. But the world is slow
n learning this fact Multitudes think as you
10, that it is an attendant upon weath-upon
ame-upon position in society but if their
wishes could be grah6ed, they would doubt
ess in almost all instances, find that they had
mistaken its nature entirely. 1t comes to those
who with greatful hearts take what their Fa-
her has appointed them, looking beyond the
nists and shadows of Time, into the clear sun
ight of Eternity. 1t comes to those who for
get self, and look to the welfare of others
who scorn the wrong and adhere firmly to the
light, never pausing to weigh results in the
lice scales of self-interest and worldly pride
t sits guest at the humblest board, if Heav
Unborn Charity presidcs. Ga. Family VS.
JENNY LIND.-Is she happy in her domestic
citations an impudent question; but as the
Nightingale" has answered it herself the
world are entitled TO the evidence. She writes
Is follows to Mr.. Habicht, Swedish Consul at
New York f aa
DRESDEN, 10 Feb, 1858.
We are, God be thanked, WELL Otto is very
rood and kind. he labors constantly, is always