ing delighted through the air, as There are two distinct classes of though to try the force of its ex-evil to which the ardour of the youthpanded wings, the tree in the early ful mind renders it peculiarly liable. portion of summer pushing forth new The one is bodily, the other mental. buds and branches, yea, infancy it-In youth, as I before intimated, the self, with all its new-tried and half-passions are strong; and many are conscious motions, when the soul apt to be led away by indulging the seems bursting from the eyes, and lusts of the flesh, and thus giving the pouting lips and fluttering frame heed to the devices of satan. There speak an earnestness no language can is seldom sufficient in mere manual describe, these are pictures of the employment, whatever may be the ardour of the youthful mind, bursting calling chosen for them, to occupy all through all bodily restraints, uncon- the thoughts and powers of the young. trollable and uncontrolled. Their minds are teeming with energy What season is so fitted for ardu- which must find some channel of deous toil? what season is so fitted for velopement; and with a heart at enundertaking works of magnitude for mity against God, in which are latent the benefit of the human race? Un- the principles of every thing that is checked by disappointment, untired vicious, if left to itself there need be by the repeated blastings of hopes no question as to what sources of and expectations, the YOUNG MAN gratification it will turn. We see it with alacrity pursues his aspiring manifested daily in the taverns and way; and whatever be the path he beer-shops which too thickly crowd has chosen, seldom leaves it till he has our streets; in the gangs of juvenile either attained the object of his wishes, depredators who eager after mischief and proved it to be vanity and vexa- for its own sake, prowl around the tion of spirit, or consumed his suburbs of our cities. We see it strength in the pursuit. nightly in the examples around us of the gratification of evil concupiscence and irregular desire, which offend the eyes and wound the heart of the

dour that the harlot appeals when she cries, "Stolen waters are sweet! Come taste of my enjoyments." It is to ill-directed ardour that the drunkard holds out the foaming cup, with which he has dethroned his reason and stifled keen remorse. And alas!

How many a powerful mind, for want of some attendant guide, has in this restless effervescing season wandered into the regions of error. Man Christian. It is to ill-directed aris by nature prone to evil; and left to himself, ever chooses the downward road. Youth is the time of putting forth. The passions then are strong; and the mental faculties, if in any degree cultivated, are expanding on every side. Gaily it sails forth into life, like a tall ship from the harbour into an ocean, untried and unknown. But O, if no pilot hand should guide the frail vessel safely o'er the deep, how easily is it borne away by strong currents! how easily dashed against jutting rocks! how easily in the season of tempest and danger hurled to and fro by the roaring billows, or swallowed by the great profound!

how many of the young are led to their forbidden feasts; and barter immortality for temporary and sensual gratification.

The other class of evils to which the ardour of the youthful mind subjects it, though nearly as deadly in their nature, are not so apparent. Few, comparatively, bulge upon these rocks; but they are not less needful to be pointed out in the chart by the

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Go! wondrous creature, mount where seience guides;

Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state
the tides;

Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old Time, and regulate the sun,

mental geographer, because they lie concealed beneath the wave. They to whom the pleasures of the flesh hold out no lures, are very apt to fall into another temptation, through an opposite developement of this youthGo teach Eternal wisdom how to rule, ful fire,-in the thirst for unsanctified Then sink into thyself, and be A FOOL!" knowledge. Start not, gentle reader. Do not consider me one of those old- Untaught by the lessons of wisdom fashioned beings who assert that "ig- which the Scriptures contain, or which norance is bliss," and " 'tis folly to be those who know the Scriptures alone wise." I have not yet reached what are able to minister, the pursuit of is usually accounted the meridian of knowledge too frequently puffs up the life, I have pursued after know- heart of man, and leaves him at last ledge with an avidity which cannot stranded upon the shore of ETERNITY, be much surpassed by yours, I have a blasted one,- -A WRECK! learned many things in my wisdom, And now, my young reader, havwhich, in my simplicity, I have had ing briefly pointed out a few of the to unlearn again. I have drank of evils arising from this ardour of which the cup of infidelity, and proved it to all of you have your share, you will be gall and bitterness, To speak naturally expect me to point out some against learning in this age, of which channels in which it may beneficially Daniel prophesied that men should flow. Excuse me then, if the only seek to and fro, and knowledge should piece of advice I now give you is to increase," would be almost high trea- read with attention and care the son against the "march of intellect." "Young Men's Magazine." And My remarks apply to the quality, not do not accuse me of egotism; for I to the quantity of the knowledge sought assure you I am not its editor. It after. It is to be lamented that, in was for developeing the faculties of the our early essays, we too generally for-young, and enlisting their energies in get the depravity of our nature, and the limited scope of our faculties; and thus, pushing forth our inquiries into what we cannot grasp, we see confusion, uncertainty, and chaos,

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the cause of virtue, religion, truth, and pure philosophy, that "Young Men's Societies" were instituted, and the "Young Men's Magazine" established. Here you will find held up to your notice numerous ways in which your “Where order, lovely order, reigns supreme." ardour may exert itself; yea, exhaust But alas! what is man, that he should itself in such a manner as to bring attempt to dictate to the Eternal? to glory to God on high, and peace on declare what is good or what is evil? earth. The multiplied modes in to find fault with the revelation of which benevolence may be exercised, love with which Heaven has blessed the battles which may be fought the earth,—like a moon reflecting the with evil in its various fortresses and beams of the sun of righteousness du- ramifications, the high state of the ring his absence from his purchased blessed in the regions of glory to possession?-or descant with ridicule which the young ambitious Christian on the book of creation and provi- may safely aspire, the never-failing dence, which lies open before him? ocean depth of wonders which the Well did an infidel picture his mad-love of God makes manifest, the ness when he taught the bard to sing, attributes and perfections of Him who

will ever be the Unsearchable, Un- then so mistaken its proper objects known, the mystery of Christ's in- as to convert all their dependents carnation, the adorable riches of his into beggars; nor was it so limited grace, the marvels of that scene from in its scope as to be incapable of tothe sight of which the fiery eye of lerating those variations of religious heaven was shut, opinions which must necessarily arise among all truth-searching Christians.

"When God the great Creator died

For man the creature's sin,"

—these, and numerous others equally interesting, which I cannot dwell upon in one short essay, are the subjects of various papers in that little Miscellany. And here are fields sufficiently large for the exercise of all your ardour, unless it require a space larger than that of the solar system

to expand in,-unless its heat is sufficient to light that baptismal fire which shall purge the earth from sin in the hour of God's appointing.

T. R.

SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARITIES.

(Continued from page 172.)

It is a lovely treat to the mind of the Christian scholar, conversant in the literature of the primitive ages of Christianity, to observe with what surprising and startling lustre the gospel sunshine of charity burst forth over the empire of Judaism and Paganism.

The Gentiles in general, and especially the brightest of all Gentiles, the Platonists, perceived that a beam of philanthropy had even then descended from heaven, before which the splendour of their own philosophic benevolence faded away.

to burst its way through the phalanx The sunshine of charity continued of selfish prejudices and passions. Armed with that sword of the Spirit which is the word of God, which Roman Catholics had so long allowed to rust in its scabbard, she went forth with the band of reformers, and once more proclaimed peace on earth and good will to men.

From that time to this the great genius of universal charity has been winning perpetual triumphs over selfishness.

We are not disposed to renounce this cheering view of the triumphal progress of charity through all ages and nations. We believe sincerely that this first of Christian graces has ever been triumphing, is triumphing still, and will triumph on till every cloud of selfishness be swept away from the universe of God.

We think that this triumphant career is proveable by the present state of religious, charitable, and philanthropical institutions. Their rapid increase, their unlimited efficacy, their complex operations, have become the surprise and the delight of mankind. They form, in fact, a new and complicate branch of Christian science in the land, which, Nor was this new orb of charity at if we were disposed to coin words, all less triumphant during the purer we might call charitology; a science days of the Roman Catholic church. well worthy an indefatigable study; For a long time the spirit of charity a science at least as important to the and universal benevolence triumphed welfare of mankind, as any that figure over the clouds of error;--let the in the cyclopædias, and the details of numberless charitable institutions of which are too complicated to be fully the Catholics abroad attest the fact elaborated even by a mind of firstwe assert. Their charity had not rate powers.

step, with a little child on her knee. The child was crying bitterly. The little boy stood still; and I could see a gleam of compassion cross his expressive countenance. After a few moments of evident communion with himself, he looked at his penny, and stretched out his hand to the unfortunate child, exclaiming, in his

Charity, or universal love, though it is by no means identically the same as almsgiving, yet the terms are almost equivalent in colloquial language. We conceive, therefore, the amount of the former may in general be fairly tested by the amount of the latter; and by this test of charitable contribution we shall find the quantity of charity at present abroad any-own artless but not less impressive thing but inconsiderable. way, "Here, my cove, here's a brown But thanks to the learned and most for you. I thinks as how you arn't eloquent writers who have recently had no breakfast, and I has; I was recommended the virtue of charity to going to buy some happles, but now Christendom, we expect to see its I vont." Then, turning to the right benign influences diffusing themselves about, he resumed his ditty, and hopfar more widely and universally than ped away up the hill as blithe as if has ever yet been the case. We re- he had a peck of apples in his posjoice in the present amount of charity, session. Let those who admire this not so much on its own account, as trait of a generous heart, "do because we consider it as an earnest just so." and pledge of still better and brighter things to come. We believe that this celestial grace is progressive and unstayable. It is like the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. With this confidence full in our hearts we write these sketches of public charities.

F. B.

GENUINE PHILANTHROPY.

ONE morning, as I was walking down Holborn-Hill, my attention was attracted by a little boy, about ten years of age, scampering up and down the steps before the gates of St. Andrew's Church, bawling with all his might, "Turn about, wheel about, do just so." I stopped and watched him attentively. He held in his hand a penny, at which he every now and then cast his cheerful eyes. In one of his wheel-abouts, for "he suited the action to the word," he was suddenly stopped in his career by the sight of a poor, ragged, wretched looking woman, who had just sat down on the bottom

THE CHRISTIAN AND THE MAN OF THE
WORLD CONTRASTED.

ONE lives as though this world were little
worth ;
The other seeks his heaven alone on earth:
This acts as God did every action spy;
That, as none were-or only dwelt on high:
This acts to all, as all for him were made;
That, as created but to give them aid.
Both seek in different ways their soul's
delight;

Each thinks the other wrong, himself aright.
This difference I between the two descry,
One dies to live,—the other lives to die.

THE WAY TO GOD.

LET us inquire, in humble faith,

J. C. W.

What way will most effectual be
To save us from the power of death,

From sickness and from sorrow free.

The Captain of our hope and faith
Obeyed the Father's will, and died:
He died an ignominious death,

Was persecuted, crucified!
Herein is love, compassion shown, > =
To die for sins, and not his own;