On the other hand, women are often weak and silly, and that delightful shrew, Mrs. Poyser, is finally obliged to admit, in " Adam Bede," "I'm not denyin' that women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the

men.

STRONG CHARACTERS.

Strength of character consists of two things-power or will and power of self-restraint. It requires two things, therefore, for its existencestrong feelings and strong command over them. Now it is here we make a great mistake; we mistake strong feelings for strong character. A man

who bears all before him, before whose frown domestics tremble, and whose bursts of fury make the children of the household quake-because he has his will obeyed, and his own way in all things, we call him a strong man. The truth is, that is the weak man; it is his passions that are strong; he, mastered by them, is weak. You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he subdues, not by the power of those which subdue him. And hence composure is very often the highest result of strength.

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Did we never see a man receive a flagrant insult, and only grow little pale, and then reply quietly? That is a man spiritually strong. Or, did we never see a man in anguish stand, as if carved out of solid rock, mastering himself? Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial remain silent, never tell the world what cankered his home peace? That is strength. He who, with strong passions, remained chaste; he who keenly sensitive, with manly powers of indignation in him, can be provoked, and yet restrain himself, and forgive these are the strong men, the spiritual heroes. Rev. F. W. Robertson.

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A THANKFUL HEART.-If should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction! The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies: but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings; only the iron in God's sand is gold.--. W. Holmes.

THE HUMAN EYE.-The language of the eye is very hard to counterfeit. You can read in the eyes of your companion, while you talk, whether your argument hits him, though his There is tongue will not confess it.

a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing, and a look when he has said it. Vain and forgotten are all the fine cffices of hospitality, if there be no holiday in the

eye.

How many furtive invitations are avowed by the eye though dissembled by the lips. A man comes away from a company; he has heard no important remark, but if in sympathy with the society, he is cogniz

ant of such a stream of life as has been flowing to him through the eye. There are eyes which give no more admission into them than blueberries; others are liquid, and deep wells that men might fall into; and others are oppressive and devouring, and take too much notice. There are asking eyes, and asserting eyes, eyes full of faith-some of good and some of sinister omen.--Emerson.

You must live for another, if you wish to live for yourself.

WHERE THE EVIL FALLS.

The worst consequences of the liquor traffic fall upon women and children.

Intemperance is the most cowardly of all crimes. I say all crimes; for it must be admitted that if, so long as the effects of self-poisoning by the use of intoxicating beverages are confined to drunkards, the prac tice is only a vice, yet the moment that he is led by it to violate his duty to others, and tresspass upon their rights, he becomes a criminal. Although there is much intemperance among women, and it is to be feared that the habit is increasing, especially among the fast and wealthy few, still the gentler sex is comparatively free from the dreadful practice, which is so common among men. Some of the reasons for this fact may be that the woman nature, if not the better, is less inclined to the indulgence of coarse animal tendencies, like gluttony and drunkenness, that woman has fewer temptations, and, when there is opportunity, is more readily reclaimed. Then, again, woman is the supreme being in the family, and instinctively perseveres longest against temptation, adversity and unfortunate environment, in the effort to sustain and preserve the family bark from wreck on the sea of dissipation. All the intense feelings and forces of wifehood and motherhood are rallied for the great struggle against the drink demon who invades her sacred citadel. Whoever surrenders to him, and sometimes he captures all and spares neither sex,-as a rule, the woman who is a wife and mother yields last.

Intemperance is not a natural passion. It is an acquired appetite; and

woman, warned of its special horrors reserved for herself, is the greatest barrier to its general prevalence among men. Imagine for a moment the influence of woman withdrawn from the warfare against alcohol; or even that she were as indifferent and inactive in her opposition to it as the masses of the other sex! Would not the ravages of the traffic be doubled in five years?

Men alone would seldom lose a day or a dollar in temperance crusades. The war for abstinence is a war for woman and for home. It is woman's war. Man may help her, but she fights it, if it be fought, and she wins it, if it be won. It is her kingdom which is at stake, and upon her success depend all the great interests of society. Henry H. Blair, in the Temperance Movement.

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'RUM VERSUS RUM."

The Presbyterian in an excellent article with the above heading says:

"There is at the present no spot into which rum will not thrust itself as if by divine right, and no law that it will not break or evade if it stands between it and its progress. If the license laws of the country had not been evaded or trampled upon it might have gone on quietly in its destructive career; but there was not, even in this most mild restraint, latitude enough. The Sabbath must be brought into service. God's own day has no sanctity. The laws of every State in which the Lord's day was acknowledged as a part of the national life must go under the rapacity of this one-horned-goat.

"The people of this land shall have no respite, no security, no hour that the rum-power will not invade.

The citizen cannot go to the house of God without encountering its offensive presence. And now the issue has come as to whether there is any spot that cannot be invaded. This is the issue of the present hour. If men could be one day in seven free from it, it would be the grandest triumph of the century. But our real hope of victory is in the continued oppressions of this tyranny. In one of the contests of the Revelation it is stated that the secret or the final victory was that the earth helped the woman. May rum push on the contest for territory until it is death or victory! All is working to this end. Legislative bribery is publicly proclaimed as a part of its tactics. Let it be done and thoroughly done, and what temperance reform cannot gain rum will give us by virtue of its own madness."

COST OF INTEMPERANCE.

Although the great curse of intemperance relates to the physical evils, the mental impairment and the moral degradation of its victims. The cost and the consequent undermining of society, by a waste of material resources -is a matter of vital importance Just to the extent that the products of industry are squandered-wasted -from any cause, the arm of industry is palsied. If the drunkard labors but half of the time, it is plain that he is not contributing his quota to the material prosperity of the nation. If, also, one-half of his income is squandered in the purchase of articles which afford no material return, the result is practically the same as if the time was squandered. Ordinarily, a man's salary is invested in some product used as food, clothing, materials for manufacture, implements, machinery, etc., thus adding to the prosperity of the nation, as in duty bound, as a return for the protection of life

and property, as well as in aid of the educational advantages.

An idea of the vast waste of wealth by the use of tobacco and ardent spirits, may be obtained from an analysis of the revenue returns for the last fiscal year, remembering, that the figures are simply the tax paid, and not the real cost to the consumer, which included the original cost, the tax and the profits to the dealers, which are usually enormous: Illinois paid $23,000,000, $19,500, 000, for spirits; Ohio, $18,000,000, $13,000,000 for tobacco; New York, $16,000,000; Virginia, $6,700,000, all but $400,000 for tobacco; Kentucky, $8,800,000, and Indiana, $6,000,000. These six states paid an aggregate of $65,000,000, or fivesixths of the whole revenue paid. This sum would build three thousand churches or six thousand schoolhouses for the elevation and improvement of the masses, the poor included, and yet it was paid for the privilege of making what never yet added a penny to the resources of the country, but for what causes most of the crime, degradation, ignorance, pauperism, insanity and idiocy of our country. And yet, such an industry must be protected, we are told. Does it in any way resemble the shoe or cabinet business, or any such industry?-Dr. J. H. Hanaford.

CHIPS.

The receipts of the Board of Excise, in New-York City, for licenses. the last eleven months, have been $1,430,000.

-Four Father Matthew Societies in Detroit number over 1500 members, and crowded meetings are held every Sunday evening.

-A. M. E. Sunday-school in Alleghany City, Pa., follows the good example of Lafayette avenue Sundayschool, by increasing their subscrip

tion to the Youth's Temperance Banner to 600 copies. What one follows

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--Rev. J. B. Smith, chaplain of Sing Sing prison, is ready to respond to calls to lecture upon the cause of temperance. He has lectured very acceptably in many places in his vicinity.

lemonade was nothing," said he, "but I knew how it would end. The only safety, boys, for any one, no matter how strong his resolutions, is outside the door of the saloon."

"THE DEVIL IN SOLUTION."-The power of the demon of drink is strikillustrated in the following incident:

forced.

-A lodge of Good Templars has lately been instituted in Birmingham, England, called "Columbia," which is the first introduction of the order into Great Britan.

KEEP AWAY.

The proprietor of a high-toned drinking saloon in New York signed the pledge and closed his dram-shop. On learning that a company of lads had organized themselves into a temperance society, he went to them, and gave them some of his experience as a rumseller.

"I sold liquor," said he, "eleven years-long enough for me to see the beginning and end of its effect. I have seen a man take his first glass in my place and afterward find the grave of a suicide. I have seen man after man, wealthy and educated, come into my saloon who now cannot buy a dinner. I recall twenty customers, worth from one to five thousand dollars, who are now without money and without friends."

He warned the boys against entering the saloon upon any pretext. He said that he had seen a young fellow, a member of a temperance society, come in with a friend, and wait while he drank. "No, no," he wonld say, when asked to drink, "I never touch it." Presently, rather than seem churlish, he would take a glass of cider or harmless lemonade. "The

Two brothers were recently reunited in New York who had been separated for thirty-two years. One was a shoemaker and the other a sai

lor, and they separated in Ireland in 1848, one coming to this country and the other to sail around the world. They were devotedly and sincerely attached to each other, and great was their joy at the meeting after such a long separation. They celebrated their meeting with the foolish but prevalent practice of drinking liquor. Twenty-four hours with the drink had so transformed these loving brothers into human fiends that they quarrelled and fought until one was laid up in a hospital in a critical condition and the other in prison for a deadly assault on his brother. Any agent should be banished for ever to the which will produce such results abode of infernal spirits, and securely chained until the final day of judg

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HOME.

What is this that we call home? Especially-Christian brothers, Christian sisters--what is home to you and to me?

You go into your own house, you sit down to your own fireside, you look into loving faces, you speak, you hear the common words of everyday life, but they are the very accents of music to which angels would listen. You are together, husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters and friends--do you ever stop to think what all these ties are to you, and what home means?

Home is earth's heaven-the Paradise which is left to men here--and I am sure that to most of us, I hope that to all of us, it is veritable Eden. There is no place like home. You cannot rest but at home. If sick, you must be at home. When well, home needs you, and your energies

are best exerted there. If business takes you away, you leave your heart

and cast many a thought behind; and as soon as you can you are back again home. If for social enjoyment you go out, the enjoyment is just in proportion to the amount of home you take with you; and even then you return eagerly, with an ever new delight in the approach to the sight of home.

What is home to us then, that it should be so dear? Home? It is consecrated by all the experience of life. It has been baptized with our tears; it has been hallowed with unuttered throbbings of heart. Death has made it holy; our loved ones have gone on to heaven before us from its portals. Birth has glorified it; the smiles and the prattle of our babes have filled it with a radiance more than earthly. Our songs have filled its dwellingrooms; our prayers have gone up from its bedsides. Its walls have wit

nessed the deepest movings of our souls; only it walls have witnessed many things which are between us