ORIGINAL POETRY. "Where then shall wisdom be found, and what is the place of understanding?" Not in those sad and gloomy caves Of all whom thirst of gold enslaves, Say ye who madly dance along Say-in your gay and thoughtless throng, The flowery wreath that decks the hair, The cup that fires the brain, Frenzy may quaff, or folly wear, But Wisdom will disdain. In pride of science let the Sage And o'er the dumb and time-worn page Let pur-blind learning pore. Wisdom still mocks their useless toil, Still flies, as they pursue, Her secrets all their efforts foil, Her steps elude their view. She makes the humbled mind her seat, The pious heart her home, Where faith and fear together meet, There Wisdom loves to come. -Wealth, pleasure, knowledge, high estate, Nor gay, nor learned, rich, nor great, T. M. T. Climate of England. 73 To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor.i SIR, THE following quaint translation may perhaps be new to you, and may be acceptable to some of your readers. It is from the German. Your's, &c. True happiness is found alone Renouncing all we called our own, To Him in whom all joys are found, In measureless duration; With whom our lives are hid and bound, L. L. Questions on the Geography of Northumberland. (See our last Number, p. 29.) Whence does Northumberland derive its name? Describe the surface of this county. What is the nature of the soil in the different parts? Which are the principal rivers? Where do they respectively rise? Which of them is celebrated for its salmon fishery? For what is Northumberland distinguished? CLIMATE OF ENGLAND. KING Charles the Second, in reply to some persons who were reviling our climate, said, he thought that was the best climate where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without inconvenience, the most days of the year, and the most hours of the day; and this he thought he could do in England, more than in any country he knew of, in Europe. Quarterly Review, No. 48. p. 413. To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. SIR, I VENTURE to offer you a short, but very comprehensive, passage from a Sermon which appears to me to state the true doctrine of the Scripture, and of our Church, clearly shewing the necessity for all who profess and call themselves Christians, to live by faith in Christ, who is head over all things to His Church-the grand peculiarity which distinguishes, and indeed gives the name to, the religion we profess-a peculiarity which I am constrained to think we are too apt to lose sight of. This passage also shews us that a true Christian faith must not be a mere belief in the truths laid down in Scripture, but a principle that is to produce a devout, active, and earnest Christian life. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. PASSAGE FROM A SERMON. L. L. WOULD We obtain the victory over the world, and all its allurements?-this is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith. Would we be able to withstand temptation?-it is the shield of faith by which we shall be able to withstand the fiery darts of the wicked. Would we be strengthened in the service of God against all opposition? Foolish Superstitions. 75 -we must be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Would we go on our way rejoicing? we must rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Would we per severe in the service of God? we must be kept by His power through faith unto salvation. And, when we have done all we can, we are unprofitable servants, and must rely wholly upon the Lord Jesus Christ, we must rely confidently upon Him, that he may fulfil in us, of his good pleasure, the work of faith with power. Amen." FOOLISH SUPERSTITIONS. MR. EDITOR, I WOULD humbly suggest to you that some of us, even in this enlightened age, are believers in "witches,"" the evil eye," and a good deal more of such stuff; and a few hints on our silly absurdity, as well as impiety, might perhaps do us good. Would you believe it that a woman in this neighbourhood actually roasted a heart, stuck full of pins, and expected her maladies to leave her, as the pins dropped out! I am, Sir, A Constant Reader. We should suppose that the bare mention of such things would be quite enough to shew the folly of them, and we may indeed say the wickedness too. Our Correspondent does indeed rightly speak of the "absurdity as well as impiety of them;" for, can any reasonable creature reflect a moment on the beautiful order and harmony with which all the things of the world are formed,-and then suppose that these? or can any devout person believe that the counsels of the Almighty are thus guided and governed? We had indeed hopes that these idle fancies were nearly at an end;-though we have reason to know that it is not wholly so. It is an old remedy, when the foot is asleep, to wet the finger and make a cross on the shoe; and, by the time the cross becomes dry, the malady is cured! And Mrs. Simpleton wonders that we do not believe this, for she has experienced it, she says, a hundred times! We do not deny it. A foot asleep arises from the circulation of the blood being stopped, by sitting for some time in the same cramped position; when a person begins to move, the circulation will return again, and it will require just about as much time to do this, as the cross took in drying; and Mrs. Simpleton may, for the future, cure her patients without the cross. Goody Goosecap is famous for healing burns and scalds; she repeats some curious verses over the wounds for nine nights together, and she seldom fails, she says, of performing a cure. We believe her; this is just about the time that such sores generally heal of themselves, and Goody Goosecap may spare her poetry, and still practise with success. If the wounds are very severe, or if some awkward cow-doctor has applied his hot oils to them, or if the patient's blood is in a bad state from his visits to the ale-house or the gin-shop, then the wounds take bad courses;-and this poor Goody thinks is the "witch" or the "evil eye!" But enough of this for the present. NEW UNDERTAKINGS. A FEW years ago, we should have been considered out of our senses, if we had given a hint that |
