or, at best, only engage young people in a frivolous and unprofitable employment of the most precious moments of their lives. The pages of hiftory afford many instructive and interefting examples of humanity and generosity; and the holy fcriptures abound with narrations, both fictitious and real, adapted to inspire the youthful mind with every tender and noble fentiment. Of the fictitious kind I will mention, as particularly excellent, the fable of the Ewe-lamb, by means of which the prophet Nathan admonished David; and the parables of the Prodigal Son, and the Good Samaritan. Of narratives founded on real fact there is nothing in all the remains of antiquity more interefting than the ftory of Jofeph and his Brethren. But if you wish to cultivate a manly and generous fenfibility, turn your eyes to that great pattern of all moral excellence, our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. Behold him, from the nobleft principles of piety and public fpirit, L 4 fpirit, tenderly mourning over the depravity of his countrymen, and lamenting with tears the approaching ruin of their city and kingdom. As he drew nigh unto the city, he wept over it, faying"Oh! that thou hadst known, even thou at least, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace; but now they are hidden from thine eyes!" With what kind affection did Jefus attach himself to the family of Lazarus! and how tenderly did he fympathife with Mary and Martha when they informed him of their brother's death, and fhewed him the tomb in which he was buried! "JESUS WEPT.” At his last painful hour, when a foul less benevolent than his would have been wholly abforbed in its own fufferings, how generously did he pray for his perfecutors-"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!" How affectionately did he commit his weeping mother, who was ftanding at the foot of the cross, to the care of his beloved dif ciple! "When Jefus faw his mother, and the difciple whom he loved standing by, he faith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy fon! then faid he to the dif ciple, Behold thy mother!" If you wish, in this refpect, to be infpired with the spirit of your divine Mafter, go and imitate his excellent example. Intereft yourselves tenderly in the welfare of your relations, your friends, your countrymen, and all your fellow-creatures. Let Let your bofom be ever open to the impreffions of generofity. Have a fmile of complacence for every scene of enjoyment, a figh for every brother in calamity, a tear for every friend in forrow. "Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep." And fuffer not your tenderness to exhaust itself in fighs, and tears, and lamentations : let it prompt you to deeds of liberality and mercy. Manifeft the fincerity of your kind affections, by daily exercifing them in your domeftic relations, by t "vifiting the fatherlefs and widows in their affliction," by fupporting "the feeble knees, and binding up the broken heart," by" becoming eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and a father to the poor;" and, finally, by "loving your enemies, and forgiving their trefpaffes."-" Be ye kind one to another, TENDER-HEARTED, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you." Unexpensive Unexpensive Methods of doing Good. ACTS iii. 6. Silver and gold have I none; but fuch as I have give I thee. THAT part of mankind on whom Providence has bestowed the diftinction of wealth are almoft univerfally objects of envy to their inferiors in rank and fortune. By the selfish they are of course envied, on account of the numerous advantages which their condition affords them for perfonal enjoyment. The generous, too, though difinclined to the indulgence of fo bafe a paffion, feel them felves |