the floor strewed with a dozen different articles; a ewer on the sofa, a bandbox on the bed, and a candle-stick on the window seat. I say to myself, here must be an indolent, disorderly little body. She has no love of order, no regularity of habits, no neatness. Unless she changes her ways, she will grow up to be a very disagreeable person.

This is true of

You cannot begin too soon. Habits formed in childhood and youth, last a whole lifetime. An old habit is as hard to change as an old tree. Look at the oak in your father's lawn. Its largest limb has grown crooked and knotty. All the men in the country could not straighten it. But a child could have straightened it when it was a twig. "Just as the twig is bent," you know, "the tree's inclined." all habits. Take care, says a wise man, how you set your habits; if you set a hedge crooked, it will be crooked. Now, if you get into a habit of slovenliness about your room, your books, and your work-things, it will stick by you, and you will become a very disagreeable companion, and no one will like to visit you, or to entertain you.

The rule is good for a room, as well as for a work-shop, or any other place: A place for everything, and everything in its place. This will save many an hour of looking for things. Why is Miss Jane so late at family worship?" O," replies the maid," Miss Jane cannot find her collar, or her apron, or her slippers." Why is Miss Anne so late at school?" She is busy looking for her Geography." Why is Miss Lucy absent from the Bible-class ?-Answer. "She has mislaid her Bible." Now, if Miss Jane, Miss Anne, and Miss Lucy had had a place for everything, and everything was in its place, they would not have lost a moment of time, and would have been in much better humor, besides. For I have observed, that nothing crosses a girl's temper more than the hurry of searching for things which have been mislaid. The indolent and careless child is ready to lay the blame on brothers, sisters, servants,

or any one but herself.

If you only form the habit, it is as easy to do things right as wrong. It is as easy to lay away a dress, or a drawing, or a

map, or a piece of work, or a riband, in a neat, proper way, as to throw them altogether in a heap. Shopkeepers know this, and hence, they can pack away twice as much in a small space as you or I could do. I dare say you have often wondered at the ease with which the woman who keeps the fancy store in Smith street will hand down any one of a thousand articles. She knows where she has put every one. She never puts it anywhere else. Therefore she never has to look anywhere else to find it. And, what is more, everything in the shop looks tidy and graceful. Order and method produce convenience and beauty. Let it be so in every spot you have the care of; whether chamber, closet, cabinet, bureau, toilet, box, or basket.

The rule in farms is, Leave things as you would find them. That is, do not leave your rake in the hay-field, or your axe in the wood; if you do, you will have trouble in finding them. I have often wished young ladies would have some such rule. Write it down-embroider it on your reticule-print it on your mindLEAVE THINGS AS YOU WOULD FIND THEM. You will then always find them easily, and find them right. How much of life is spent in such questions as these ?-O! where is my dressing case? Has anybody run off with my combs? I do wonder who has thrown about my gloves in this way? cil case? Pray help me to find that think I shall be in time for church? for my muff!-All such loss of time and temper will be prevented, if you will observe my directions. And let your apartment be always in order, so that it may never be a surprise or a mortification to you, to hear a knock at the door. So much about the care of your room.

Has any one seen a penbunch of keys. Do you I've had an hour's search

THE FAMILY CONSTITUTION.

For another world, therefore, yes, for the eternal world, and with a view to it principally, does the Almighty set the solitary in families. Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it, which may indeed be forgotten or disdained; but the family is constituted, and ought therefore to be conducted, with the prospect of the rising generation following that which precedes it, not only to the grave, but into eternity.

This fine constitution of things, which is founded in nature, and exists, therefore, in every family, is only visible, it is true, in all its beauty, when both parents are Christians; because the mixed character of the family constitution attaches itselt peculiarly to the person of its head. There are two terms employed in Scripture to describe the present character and daily obligations of the Christian, which apply with peculiar force to the Christian parent or head of a family; one borrowed from what is civil, and the other from what is sacred. These are king and priest, and to these that of a prophet might be added; but I notice at present only the two former. By his Saviour, even in this life, the Christian is made a king and a priest unto God. These high favors, once bestowed, are to be carried about with him as robes of office and obligation which he cannot lay aside. Now, in the family-circle, there is provided, by God, one of the most interesting and important fields for the exercise and display of both characters. There he may, and there he does reign as a king, in sovereign and undisputed authority; and there, too, as a priest, he is to officiate on behalf of others as well as himself. By the exercise of the former character, his veneration for God is advanced, while he remembers, that, as a "king unto God," an account must be rendered of the daily exercise of his authority: by his priestly character, compassion and sympathy are greatly promoted; since it is impossible for a man to pray often for his family, without feeling increasing tenderness for it.

This beautiful and affecting arrangement of our Creator,-the civil and sacred character, united at once in the very constitutio

of a family, and in the person of its head, gives rise to some of the most important coincidences with which we are acquainted. Here is a constitution favorable to the state, in the very highest degree, and whatever may be its form of government. In such a family it is that the child, as a child, learns to be a good subject, and that the brother or sister, as such, learns to be a good citizen; and here is a state of things equally favorable to the increase of the church, as it is to that of the state: for if this is not understood, the highest end of its existence is not understood. Here, in short, both the church and the world meet, and it is the only spot on earth where it is at once lawful and incumbent on them so to do. You will not fail, however, to observe, that this meeting is upon a very small scale, and under very peculiar circumstances. It is not that the constitution of the church is to be confounded with that of the family. Since God himself does not govern the church as he does the family, so neither must we confound them. Not that these two constitutions, in themselves considered, are in any one point at variance with each other: so far from this, for particular ends, they are in perfect harmony; but still they are so distinct, that neither can be fully understood, much less seen in all its beauty, if confounded with the other. The peculiar genius of their several constitutions can never be violated with impunity. Here, however, in the family, members of the church and of the world must actually meet; and doing so by divine appointment, how peculiar and important is the situation of a parent? Both worlds meeting, both must be kept in view; but no Christian will for a moinent hesitate as to which world should have the pre-eminence.

Such, at least in part, seems to be the peculiar character of the little group assembled round the household fire. The family may increase; the establishment extend; but beyond the limits of a household property so called, the constitution, as to its main design, cannot extend. Yet, however small in point of number, or unpretending in point of aspect, its connection and laws, its spirit and principles, being altogether sui generis, well deserve, and will richly reward the most careful examination. Book for Parents.

RE-UNION OF FRIENDS IN HEAVEN.

BY REV. AUSTIN DICKINSON.

IF far beyond those orbs of light,
Are brighter worlds of endless joy,
Where ransomed ones again unite,

In changeless love and sweet employ ;
Who that can wing that boundless sky,
Would be enslaved to this dark clod?
Who would not rather upward fly,

To dwell with angels and with God?

But O, how like some land unknown,
Might seem the brightest world above,
If 'mid the splendors of its throne,

We ne'er could greet the friends we love!

If kindred hearts no more entwined,

If in those realms we ne'er shall meet,

Could all angelic hosts combined

E'er make our heaven of bliss complete ?

Savior of sinners! Lamb of God!

Teach us to live; teach us to die;
Prepare us, through atoning blood,

Thy face to meet beyond the sky.
Then, though thy foes be wrapt in flame,

Though all the stars from heaven shall fall,

We'll sing for ever Jesus' name,

Our Sun, our Shield, our Life, our all.

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