Year: 1861

made her the ornament Of her SIX. Thou.
sands Of beautiful women wonld be'glad to
ezchage their forms and faces for that pow.
er which brings throngs of worshippers to
the shrine Of Madame lie Vert.


Life is altogether too precious gift Ia
be thrown away. A man who would per
NIT field to be overgrown with weeds and
thorns simply because it would not natural
ly produce roses, would be very foolish, par
ticulary if the ground should only need cu.
livation to enable it to yield abundently of
corn. Far be it from me 10 dcprecate phys.
cal symetry and personal comoliness. They
are gifts of God and they are very good;
but there are better things in this world
than n good face, and better things than the
admiration which good fuee wins. am
more and more convinced, as the years pass
away, that the choicest thing this world
has for man is aifeclion-not any special
variety of affection, but the approval, the
sympathy, and the devotion of true hearts.
|, is not necessary that this affection come
from the great and the powerful. II it be
genuine, that is all the heart aSks. Itdoes
not criticise and graduate the value Of the
fountains from which it springs. 1t is at
those fountains particularly that the unfor-
,unatcs Of the world are parmitted to drink.
They have only TO accept checrfully the
condition of their lot, and TO give frVe and
full play in all that is good aud generous III
them, TO secure in al unsual degree the love
Of those into whose intimate society Provi
dence has thrown them.


Ii is ststod by DR. Liyinston, the celeb
rated explorer of Africa, that the blow Of
lions paw upon his sholder, which was
so severe as to break his arm, completely
annihilated the sentiment of fear; and he
suggests that it is possible that Providence
has mercfully arranged that all those beasts
that prey upon life shall have power to
destroy the sting of death in the animals
which are their natural victims. | do not
believe that this power is mercifuly assigned
to beasts Of prey alone, bnt that the misfor-
tunes that asSail our limbs and FORMS in
whatever shape and at whatever time they
may come. bring with them something which
lightens the blow, or obviates the pain, if
we will accept it, There isl calm conscious
ness in every SOUL however harShIy the
lions paw may fall upon the body which it
nhabitS, that it is itself invnlnCrahe-tha
whatever may be the condition of the body
the soul cannot be injured byphysical forces
Of forms. Physical calamity never comes
with the power to extinguish that which is
essential to the highest manhood and woman,
hood. and never fails to bring with it a
motive for the adjustment Of the soul to
! its conditions. The little boy whose Hail
Columbia" has been ringing in my cars al
day accepted the conditions of his life, an(
the sting Of his calamity has departed. L
is pleasant to say TO him and to all thC
brotherhood and sister hood Of nglncSs and


ameness that there is every reason TO be
leve that there is no such thing in Heaven
as a one-legged or club footed souI-no such
a thing as blind or a deaf soul-no such
thing as n sonl with tainted blood in its
veins and that one Of these imperfect
bodies will spring spirits of consummate
perfection and angelic beauty beauty
chastened and enriched by the humilations
that were visited upon the earthly habita-
tion.