Year: 1862

BE Patient with the Little Ones.


Be patient with the little ones. Let
neither their slow understanding nor
their occasional pertness offend you to
provoke the sharp reproof. Remember
the world is new to them, they have no
slight task to grasp with their un-
ripened intellect the mass of facts and
truth that crowd upon their attention.
You are grown to maturity and strength,
through years Of experience; and it ill
becomes you to fret at child who fails
to keep pace with your thought. Teach
him patiently as God teaches you, slime
upon line, precept upon pereept, here a
little and thers a little Cheer him
on in his conflict of mind: in after years
I his ripe, rich thought shall rise and call
IYea blessed.
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ings Of your children. Do NOT roughly
crush the rising spirit of free inquiry
with an impatient word or frown, nor
| attempt, on the contrary,a a long iastruc
tive reply to every casual Question
Seek rather to deepen their curiosity.
Convert, if possible, the careless ques
ton into a profound and earnest in-
quiry. Let your reply send the little
4 Equestioner forth, not SO much proud OF
what he has learned, as anxious to
know more. Happy, thou, if, in giving
your child the molecule Of truth he asks
for, you can whet his curiosity with a
glimpse of the mountain of truth lying
beyoud; so wilt thou send forth phi
losopher, and not a silly pedant into
the world.


Bear patiently the childish humors
of those little ones. They are but un-
tutored pleadings of the young spirit
for care aad cultivation. Irritated into
strength, and hardened into habits, they
will haunt the world Of life like fends
of despair, and make the little ones
curse the day they we're born; but cor
rected kindly and patiently, they be-
come elements of happiness and useful
ness Passions are but fires, that ma y
either scorch us with their uncontrolled
fury, or may yield Is genial and need
full warmth.


Bless your little ones with patient
care of their childhood, and they will
certainly consecrate the glory and grace
of their manhood to your service. Sow
in their hearts the seeds of perennial
blessedness; its ripened fruit will afford
you a perpetual joy.-lNich. Jour. q
Education.


A Plain Truth.


| How strange it is that men, and wo-
men too, are oftenest ashamed of what
lis best in them, and are ignobly con-
tented with the worlds approval of, OF
understood silence in regard to, things
Idiscreditable to their humanity. One
starts sometimes with horror to see the
4 beautiful and the true recklessly thrust
lin the back ground, that deformity may
be deeked aud garlanded, and paraded
in its place. Only by long continuance
by vronging our better nature, can the
souls protesting voice thus be silenced
Only by long chosen association with
those WHO have themselves succeeded in
doing it, does it grow fainter and fainter
to be heard never again till the SOU
II uses itself horror struck at the mis-
spent past, and the hopeless future
Few there are, among men or women
who can boldly assert themselves, at
those moments when they are nearest
heaven, in the face of dissent, or indif.
ference, or ridicule Too often our
good angel covers his face and retires
that mocking fend may clap US ap-
provingly on the back.


FANNY Fem
4 ChiId's Eyes.


A child's eyes! those clear wells b
undefled thought-what on earth car
be so beautiful? Full of hope, love
and curiosity, they meet your own. In
prayer, how earnest; in JOY, how spark
ling; in sympathy, how tender. The
man who never tried the companionshir
of little child, has carelessly passed by
one of the pleasures Of life, as one
passed rare flower, without plucking
it or knowing its value. A child can
not understand you, you think; speak
to it of the holy things of your religion
of your grief for the loss of friend, o.
tyour love for some one you fear will mo-
love in return; it will take, it is true, nc
measure or soundings of your thought
it will not judge how much you should
believe, whether your grief is rational
in proportion to your loss, whether you
are worthy or fit to attract the love
which you seek; but its whole soul will
incline to yours, and engraft itself, as il
were, on the feeling which is your feel
ing for The hour.


A curious Set of Wounds.


| A soldier of powerful, brawny frame
belonging to the Twenty first NORTH
Carolina, SO badly cut up at the late
battle of Winchester, is lying at Semi
nary Hospital, in that town. He re.
ceived MIME bullet in both thighs
from opposite directions. A ball en-
tered the arm near the elbow, and wen
crushing through thews and muscle uE
to the shoulders, and out at the clavicle
Another entered just above the small O.
the back. The Surgeons endeavored IL
vain to find it. Several days afterwarG
it passed from the bowels. The ball i:
preserved by DR.. Chapel, and is but lit
tie fattened.


The question is how did that ball ge
into the intestinal canals, and pass thence
without causing death? All the army
surgeons say there is no parable! case OF
record. The man eats heartily, has ex
cellent digestion, and has been living
nearly four weeks, and has every prospec
of getting we'll of all his wounds. Hit
skin has healthy appearance, his ey'
, is clear, and he talks cheerfully