them, with what a lightened look might you now survey those helpless years when you shall be able to work and earn no longer! What think you? Will you henceforth try the plan of frugality and selfdenial? Will you try how little may suffice for your present self, and how much you can save for your aged and worn-out self? and how much you can spare for those dear ones who do not fare so well nor lodge so pleasantly as you? Will you just count up how much you have expended on the "lust of the eye, and the pride of life ?" on dress, and vanity, and idle show? These fancies did you no service at the time, and they all have perished in the using. Be persuaded, now, to try the more excellent plan; and though you may find it hard at first to pass bright ribbons and silken bargains, there is a threefold pleasure which will soon requite you: the sweetness of self-denial, the comfort of having somewhat provided against evil days, and the luxury of doing good.

But you say that I have quite mistaken in supposing you unhappy in your present place. The family in which Providence has cast your lot is kind and consi

likely ever to return the loan, that people whose business it is to lend money cannot trust him; and therefore he is obliged to offer six and eight per cent. to servants, and widowed ladies, and people who know nothing of business, and are likely to take the bait. In regard to relations: it may often be kind and helpful to give them a present of money, but a loan is neither kind nor helpful. It is not kind, for you give it with the hope of getting it all again; and it is not helpful, for "easily gotten quickly goes;" and at the end of the year they I will need it as much as ever. In giving, you only hope for gratitude, and are pretty sure to get it: in lending, people hope for both gratitude and repayment, and usually get neither.

derate. It is a family in which God is feared and worshipped, and you are encouraged to frequent His House, and sanctify His Sabbath. If so, determine that no whim nor misconduct of yours shall ever part you from God's people. Put forth your utmost efforts to win their confidence, and let cheerful industry be your daily thank-offering to Him who has so highly favoured you. And, though a Christian servant will not waste her master's property, whosoever that master be, it is a great comfort when you think that the food or fuel which you save, or the furniture of which you are so careful, is something husbanded for the poor, or for the Christian treasury. And, though a Christian servant will be active, and obliging, and orderly, whatever her employers are, she has another motive added, when she thinks that her civility, and neatness, and good sense are increasing the happiness of a Christian home. Melanchthon, the great Reformer, was not rich, but he loved to show hospitality, and he needed to buy books, and travel a great deal in the service of the Church, and he often said that he owed it all to the good management of his old and faithful servant, John of Sweden. And just as we have known pious servants, who, rather than leave a pious family, would have continued to serve for nothing, so we have also known Christian families who, rather than see a faithful servant homeless in her declining days, were glad to retain, as an old friend, the inmate whom they had first received beneath their roof as a servant"not now a servant, but a mother, a sister beloved in the Lord."

THE HAPPY HOME.

X.

THE TRUE DISCIPLE.

THIS Concluding paper the author respectfully inscribes to his more thoughtful readers. He has been frequently told that his essays are above the comprehension of "working people;" but that complaint has seldom come from themselves. Amongst hard workers there are many hard thinkers, and there are thousands whose capacity and education are at least equal to anything contained in the foregoing pages. With an eye to that honourable class, the readers and the thinkers amongst his industrious fellow-citizens, the author has written most of the bygone numbers; and if some of the following paragraphs are not so plain as they ought to be, he would humbly beg for them the benefit of a second perusal. — November 27, 1848.

EVER since the world sinned and woke up to misery, there is one absentee whom all have agreed in deploring. Every age has asked tidings of her from the age that went before, and from the one which came after; and even the most indolent have put forth an effort, an have joined their neighbours in searching for this fugitive. Some have dived into the billowy main, and