* * * to tumble around those who seek to uphold it. Your hisses will not blow down the walls of justice. Slavery is wrong; the denial of that truth has brought on the angry conflict of brother with brother-it has kindled the fire of civil war in houses—it has raised the portents that overhang the future of our nation. And be you sure that no compromise, no political arrangement with slavery will ever last, which does not deal with it as a great wrong.' "" This speech caused one of their poets to sing of him: Our Leader is one who with a conqueror's will Has climbed from the base to the brow of the hill; He has fought a good fight, in the battle of life, And we trust him as one, who, come woe or come weal, His greatness and goodness were also seen in his humaneness. How humane is the following! When desertions from the army were so frequent, one of the Generals waited on Mr. Lincoln to know why he had refused to sign twenty-five executions for the deserters to be shot, adding "that mercy to the few was only cruelty to the many; and if the deserters were not shot the army would be imperilled." The magnanimous, merciful, and humane President replied," Mr. General, there are already too many weeping mothers in the United States, and, for God's sake, do not ask me to add to these numbers, for I cannot do it." He also, like Stephen, and like Jesus, prayed before his martyrdom for the forgiveness of his greatest enemies. He has now passed away to the realms of light and blessedness, after having faithfully served his generation by the will of God. "Lie down to slumber in the peaceful tomb, In the green pastures of the heavenly shore, "He was great in the sight of the Lord, and drank neither wine, nor strong drink." BIBLE POOR-LAWS. "Remember the poor! the father is lying, Remember the poor! the widow is sighing, The orphans are crying, half starving for bread; With eagerness speed ye, to succour the needy, Their helper is dead. Remember the poor! the baby is sleeping, Its cheeks wet with weeping, on its mother's breast, Whose cough, deep and hollow, foretells she'll soon follow Her husband to rest. Remember the poor! to him who aid lendeth, In his dying day." THE Bible is the poor man's best book. It contains the mind, will, and testament of his truest and best friend- "the Friend that sticketh closer than a brother." The Bible, while both true and just, is also abundantly merciful. Oh! that universal man would make its grand ideal their hallowed actual-its loving and lovely pre cepts their constant practice, then indeed would life be a pleasant passage through this terrestial to yon celestial Paradise. There is now a proverbial saying that, "Charity begins at home. With this a great many find fault and say, Such is not Charity, but Selfishness. But the Bible teaching is very conclusively favourable to home charity. The love of our neighbour is not to exceed the love of self, but only to equal it" and thy neighbour as thyself." Foreign charity is often both very spurious and very contemptible. To pass suffering at home, to relieve suffering abroad is neither reasonable, natural, or scriptural. The Bible says, "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to the poor, and to the needy, in thy land." : After the relief granted to those at home then we have to go abroad. "If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen into decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,-to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, -and to break every yoke ?" Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him: and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh." Although the Bible commands consideration for the poor, yet it promises abundant reward to those who obey.-"Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.' What a delightful string of blessings! Jesus said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, running over. God will not be your debtor. He willreward you fourfold in this life, and in the world to come with life everlasting-for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. ""Tis not enough that we with sorrow sigh, Job believed in and also practised this creed: "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out." We should not have so many poor old people dying neglected, and so many young ones living unpitied, if rich people could accord with Job in this righteous appeal." If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have |