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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1854.
SATURDAY EVENING READING.
THE MARRIAGE vow

bond enduring through long distant years,
When joy DER thine abode is lowering,
Or when thine eye is wet with btterest tears,
Recorded by an angels pen on high,
And must be questioned in eternty
Speak it not ghtly!-though the young and gay
Are thronging round thee with tones Of mirth,
Let not the holy promise of to-day
Fade like the clouds that with the morn have birth;
But ever bright and sacred may it be,
Stored in the treasure cell Of memory.
Life will not prove all sunshine there will come
Dark hours for all-0h, will ye, when the night
Of sorrow gathers thickly round your home
Love, as We did in times when calm and bright
seem'd the sure path We trod, untouched by care,
And deemd the future, like the present, fair!
Eyes that now beam with health, may yet grow dim,
And cheeks of rosy-hue forget their glow;
Languor and pain assa each active limb,
And lay perchance, some worshpp'd beauty low.
Then will e gaze upon the altered brow,
And love as fondly, faithfully, as now!
Should Fortune frown on your defenceless head,
Should storms o'ertake your bark on ifes dark sea,
Fierce tempests rend the sail so gaily spread,
When Hope her syren strain sang joyously,
Will We look up. though clouds your sky o'ercast,
And say, TOGETHER we will bide the blastl
Age with its silv'ry locks comes stealing on
And brings the tottering step, the furrowd cheek,
The eye from which each lustrous CLEAN hath gone,
And the pale lip. with accents low and weak.
viii we then turn upon your lfe's gay prime,
And, smiling, bid Love triumph over Timer
Speak it not lightly! obi beware beware!
'Tis vain promise unmeaning wOrd
And by the High and Holy one It's heard
Oh, then knee humbly at His altar now,
And pray for strength to keep the marriage vow!
LOVE- YOUR ENEMIES. Saviour points
this out as the characteristic duty of his relig-
ion. But it may be asked, How can we COM
ply with this precepts To love our friends is
easy but to love our enemies is unnatural.
The answer is, that we must take means with
ourselves to overcome the feelings of dislike,
or the impulses of passion. We must not
dwell upon malice which others have shown
we must not make it the subject of discourse
and complaint. We must call to mind all the
excuses that may be found for them. We
must above all, pray for a forgiving spirit;
pray that sense of Gods mercy, and OF the
goodness of Christ, may be so fixed and rooted
in our hearts, that they may expound ia love
to all mankind. Such are the grounds Of this
temper and conduct.
And one great motive to it is, that this is
the way in which God acts towards men and
therefore the way in which men ought to act
towards one another. God sends the bles.
sings of his providence upon all upon the
just and the unjust; upon those that serve
him and those that serve him not We have
daily experience that he does. For what
spectacle is this world In arms against God,
their righteous Governor refusing his laws,
opposing his dominion Even in country
like ours, so particularly enjoying the means
of grace, how small is the number of those
who really live to his glory every trihe a
muses., employs, engages them, and God is
forgotten. Worse still, he is defied; defed
by open sin by cursing by blasphemy. Yet
God, though i" strong" is /" patient - though
"provoked every day." he does not bring
down that vengeance upon his enemies which
orr itf1tNr a
He bears long with them so long, indeed,
that men are emboldened to continue in their
wickedness, instead of using Gods mercy as
| he intended. "The long suffering of God
| leadeth to repentance" "Sentence against
an evil work is not executed speedily" He
sis not willing that any should perish; and
therefore he makes his sun to shine upon the
evil and upon the good, and sendeth rain on
the just and on the unjust. This thought
should incline all Christians to bless those
that prosecute them, to pray for those who de-
spitefully use them A blessing often accom-
panies such a spirit of meekness, as was sig
nally exempifed on an occasion which de-
serves to be recorded, when the simple prayer
of negro slave for his master, which the mas
ter unexpectedly overheard was the means Of
converting his heart g from the power of Sat-
an unto God" Bishop Sumner.
The PHILOSOPHER AND THE CHILD.-A phi
losopher once asked little girl if she had
soul. She looked up into his face with an air
of establishment and offended dignity, and re-
piled
"To be sure have"
"What makes you think you have"
'Because have" she promptly replied.
''But how do you k,oU you have soulf'
''Because do know" she answered again.
1t was childs reason but the philosopher
could hardly have given better.
"Well, them" said he, after moments
consideration, ''if you know you have a soul,
can you tell me what your soul is p
"Why, said she, 81 am six years old, and
don't you suppose that know what my soul
is p
Perhaps you do. If you will tell me
shall find out whether you do or not"
s'Then you think l don't know" she re-
Piled, "but l do it's my Think
"Your Think said the philosopher, aston
ished in his turn; ''who told you sol"
"Nobody. l should be ashamed if did
not know that, without being told"
The philosopher had puzzled his brain a
great deal about the soul, but he could not
have given better definition of it in so few
words.-Reaper.
The TEACHING OF THE Holy SPIRIT LIMIT
ED TO REVEALED THINGs.-There are many
great things we must feel deep interest in
knowing, which God has not pleased to make
known. God has revealed in the Bible eve
rything to sanctify the soul, but nothing to
crafty a morbid curiosity. We may not,
therefore, expect that the Holy Spirit will
teach us to answer many curious questions
that men have asked, and will ask /; but that
he will teach us savingly and proftably those
precious truths which God has revealed. For
instance, it has been stated, " How long did
Adam stand in Paradise before he fell s''--
This is not revealed there is no reason to
hope that the Spirit will teach it. 1t has been
asked, If Eve only had sinned, and Adam
had remained innocent, would humanity have
fallenY That question may be asked: there
is no answer in the Bible we have no war
rant to pray that the Holy Spirit would teach
it. 1t has been asked SHOW long will the
day of Judgment lastY This is not revealed;
but think there is enough revealed TO show
that it will not occupy twenty-four hours on
ly, but long time, in contrast TO the day of
grace that is. The Bible, however, is silent.
We must therefore limit the teaching of the
Holy Spirit to the things that are revealed in
the Bible Cummings.
The METHoDIsrs.-It is now one hundred
and fourteen years since the Methodists have
existed as a people. They now number in
the world nearly two millions of commune
cants, and preach the gospel to ten or twelve
millions.
Ills EA SES OF THE SKIN :.
NJ CHAS. H. pHEIpS M n