to contain his throbbing heart, he continued," See my devoted children, they hold out their little hands for bread, at the doors of those houses which should have been their own-happy if they can obtain a mouldy crust.-The dogs bark at themthe servants spurn them-unsheltered and desolate they seek refuge within the dens of infamy. They forget their sainted mother's precepts, the sins of the father are visited upon the children,' they lead a life of infamy, and die a death of disgrace." As he spoke he again rushed forward, his clenched hands struck his foreheadhe hastened from the haunts of men, and took the most unfrequented paths. A piece of water stopped his progress-he lingered on the banks-he laughed wildly, the pallid hue of his complexion had given. way to a convulsive black-he covered his eyes with his agitated hands, polluted the name of God with his lips, and compleated his sinful career by rushing uncalled into eternity. I have dwelt thus long on this frightful picture, as I could wish it to make a deep. and lasting impression. Gaming is an infatuation of so dangerous a nature, that the utmost care should be taken to repel its advances. It brings on families ruin, dis grace, and death; in women it absorbs allthe gentler passions of the soul, makes them regardless of all domestic duty, dead to the claims of affection, and daring and: impious to their Creator. their Creator. Spadille is. dearer to them than their husbands, and the knave than their children;-a skilful and fortunate game is the height of their bliss, and a run of bad cards the climax of their despair. Deluded Deluded and infatuated daughters of dissipation awake-listen to the call of religion and nature!-and you, my young friends, fly the destructive power of pernicious example-'tis a gilded bait in appearance, but conceals a vulture which will prey on the heart. The smallest step may lead you too far, and once entered into the delusive path, retreat becomes daily more and more difficult.. That rich men should play deep affords matter of astonishment to the refective mind.-They can have but two incentives-the despicable passion of avarice, or the insignificant plea of want of amusement. Few will acknowledge the first cause, yet surely the second is equally culpable. No man is amused by losing his money, and what heart must he possess who, wealthy himself, seeks to increase his store by the plunder of another? If this is amusement, surely 'tis that of fiends, who rejoice in betraying deluded sinners "Into bottomless perdition, there to dwell MILTON. Let sorrow, let pain, let the derisions. of the wicked fall upon us, sooner than we suffer ourselves to be enriched or amused. by such means.-Never, Oh, never, may the sins or sorrows of our brother mortals. rest upon our heads!-Sufficient to us at our great account will be the weight of our own. ON ON HEALTH. TO eat moderately of plain and wholesome food, to take proper exercise, to retire early to rest, and to rise the same to observe cleanliness in our persons, and to abstain from anger or dangerous amusements, are the best means to preserve health, which is the greatest blessing of life. Look round the world and you will see hundreds of disfigured persons, some with protuberant backs, some with crooked legs, and various other distortions ; some are C 5 blind, |