January derives its name from Janus, a divinity among the early Romans. January was added to the Roman calendar by Numa, 713 B. C. He placed it about the winter solstice, and made it the first month, because Janus was supposed to preside over the beginning of all business. MOON'S New Moon 6th, 7h. 24m. mor. 1 Sat. 2 38 7 23 2 SUN. 7 32 4 28 3 36 8 17 3 Mon. 7 32 4 28 4 33 9 14 4 Tue. 7 31 4 29 5 28 5 Wed. 7 31 4 29 6|Thu. |7 30 | 10 13 6 22 11 12 sets. ev. 10 3 49 4 30 7 Fri. 4 36 PHASES. Full Moon 20th, 7h. 20m. mor. The Allies of Liberal Christianity. Unitarians possess the advantage of regarding the encouraging signs and movements of the age as indications and direct helpers of the progress of their own cause. Being neither in bondage to creeds, nor enslaved to the dictation of any pope, priesthood, class, or any human device or institution, nor yet moored to a changeless past, they look cheerfully and confidently on all advancement, finding no danger in light, and no enemy, but a friend, rather, in freedom. Among the signs and movements that they look upon as allies, may be mentioned the following: 1. The increasing liberality of sects; 2. The improvement in Biblical criticism and interpretation; 3. All endeavours after the development of a higher philosophy; 4. The emancipation of the modern mind from the sway of antiquated prejudices, its impatience of bigotry, and the toleration extended to free and conscientious inquiry; 5. The interest taken in all reforms and humanities, and the opposition made to slavery, war, and sensuality; 6. Every new invention in the useful arts; 7. Every beautiful creation in the elegant arts ; 10. The diffusion of literature; 11. The tendency to free governments; 12. The tendency to an equalization of labor; 13. The enlarging facilities of commerce. February, so called from Februa, a feast which was held therein, in behalf of the manes of deceased persons, when sacrifices were performed, and the last offices were paid to the shades of the dead. This month, with January, was added to the year, which had previously but ten months, by Numa, 713 B. C. MOON'S PHASES. New Moon, 4th, 8h. 56m. eve. |Full Moon, 18th, 11h. 14m. eve. First Quar. 11th, 3h. 14m. eve. Last Quar. 27th, 3h. 36m. mor. M. Week Sun Sun Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. & s. Water 1 33 h. m. h. m. h. m. 1 Tue. 7 7 4 53 4 11 2 Wed. 7 64 54 5 3 3 Thu.|7 4 Fri. 7 3 4 57 5 Sat. 7 24 58 h. m. 8 44 9 43 5 51 10 42 sets. 11 40 6 19 ev. 38 2 24 No Efforts to do Good are lost. "I have heard of some seeds which will sleep in the earth for ages, and I have read of the young of certain insects which lie in a state like death for eighty years together, and yet when the hand that scattered the seed had been mingled with the dust, and when the insect that had deposited the young had ended its flight for generations, the seed would come forth a forest of mighty trees, and the slumbering insect would wake to life and become the mother of an endless multitude. And so it may be with us. We are scattering the seeds of knowledge, and goodness, and immortality, but we see not the seed spring forth. Our instructions seem to be forgotten; the fruits of our liberality seem to have perished; and our labors appear to have been in vain. Be of good courage; the seed is still in the earth undecayed, and the time will come when it shall spring forth, and yield a plenteous harvest. It is watched over by the God of heaven, and not a seed shall perish. The hand that scattered may be withered, but the seed itself shall swell, and send forth its germ, and become a mighty tree. The voice that uttered the sermon may be silent, but others that received the truth shall come forth and declare it afresh to the generations that are yet unborn." 15 Tue. 6 51 0 18 0 58 1 39 2. 20 12 3 3 22 Tue. 6 42 morn. 3 47 If men gave three times as much attention as they now do to ventilation, ablution, and exercise in the open air, and only one third as much to eating, furnishing, and late hours, the number of doctors, dentists, and apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia, dyspepsy, gout, fever, and consumption would be changed in a corresponding ratio. Mankind would rapidly present the aspect, not only of a far healthier and thriftier, but a far more beautiful and more virtuous race. March. This was the first month of the year until Numa added January and February, 713 B. C. Romulus, who divided the year into months, gave it the name of his supposed father, Mars. MOON'S New Moon, 5th, 8h. 30m. mor. 29 Wed. 5 48 6 12 2 17 6 16 30 Thu. |6 47 6 13 3 0 31 Fri. 5 46 6 14 3 41 7 morn. 3 36 7 13 PHASES. Full Moon, 19th, 4h. 27m. eve. "If we deduct all those days that we might wish unlived, and which abate the comfort of those we now live, if we reckon up only those days which God hath accepted, a life of many years will hardly seem a span long. He cannot be accounted young who outliveth the old man. He that hath early arrived unto the measure of a perfect stature in Christ hath already fulfilled the prime and longest intention of his being; and one day lived after the perfect rule of piety is to be preferred before sinning immortality." Sir Thomas Browne. It is said of Coleridge, that one day, in his library, he called the attention of a friend who was a Unitarian to a bundle of Unitarian pamphlets and tracts, which he had labelled with this title, - "Salvation made Easy; or, Every Man his own Redeemer." Being himself, a few days after, in the study of the same friend, he noticed, in a conspicuous position, a pile of Calvinistic tracts, inscribed "Salvation made Easy; or, One Man the Redeemer of all Men"! "What a glorious world this would be if all its inhabitants could say, in truth and sincerity, with Shakspeare's shepherd Corin, 'Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; am glad of other men's good, and content with my harm.' "There are some persons so full of nothings, that, like the strait sea of Pontus, they perpetually empty themselves by their mouth, making every company or single person they fasten on to their Propontus." Jeremy Taylor. April, the fourth month of the year, so called from the Latin of aperiendo, opening, because the pores of the earth are then opened. The trees and shrubs gradually come into leaf this month. h. m. MOON'S PHASES. New Moon 3d, 6h. 16m. eve. 1 46 1 Sat. 3 Mon. 5 42 6 18 4 Tue. 5 41 6 19 7 34 5 Wed. 5 40 6 20 6 Thu.|5 38 6 8 46 ev. 52 22 9 57 7 Fri. 5 36 6 24 11 4 2 38 8 Sat. Full Moon 18th, 10h. 47m. mor. "Large sums,' it is said, 'must be spent in giving a good education to a nation.' We grant it; a good education will probably be costly; but it so happens that the bad education is costly already, and that the repression of vice requires an expenditure of time, labor, and money, as well as the inculcation of virtue. In public, as in private life, indolence and neglect will be found, in the long run, luxuries nearly as expensive as dissipation itself. Thefts and larcenies cost the nation something in the course of the year, and the expense of a theft goes beyond the amount stolen. Mr. Sergeant Adams, at the Middlesex Sessions of January 27th, 1847, stated, 'that last year five hundred and thirty persons were convicted in his court, and the property stolen by them was worth about £ 150; the prosecutions cost £450, and the maintenance of the prisoners £766, the total of which was about £1,200, which sum would have provided them with a good education'; an education which would have trained them to moral habits, fitted them for industrial pursuits, and enabled them, while they provided comforts for themselves, to make a proportionate addition to the general stock of the wealth of the community. Not only is money abstracted from productive industry, to be expended by unproductive guilt, but there is a new temptation offered by the success to the juvenile race of thieves,- - an amount of evil which cannot be calculated; and then there comes the cost of detection, the cost of detention, the cost of trial, and the cost of punishment. The expense of our criminal jurisprudence is just one item, and no small one, in our annual budget of national mis-education. We have not to choose between a system that will cost something, and a no-system that does cost nothing. Our no-system is intolerably expensive al 23 SUN. 5 15 6 45 morn. 1 41 2 32 3 24 4 17 9 43 5 16 6 44 10 37 11 25 5 12 610 26 Wed. 5 11 6 49 27 Thu. 6 9|6 51 1 36 May received its name, say some, from Romulus, who gave it this appellation in respect to the senators and nobles of his city, who were called Majores; though others suppose it was so called from Maia, the mother of Mercury. MOON'S New Moon 3d, 2h. 30m. mor. 2 Tue. 5 3 6 57 3 Wed. 5 2 6 58 4 Thu. 5 0 7 2 17 3 55 4 40 9 49 10 45 0 8 44 ev. 32 5 Fri. 11 38 3 7 5 37 |11 Thu. |4 52 7 12 Fri. 10 Wed. 4 53 7 4 41 17 Wed. 4 46 7 14 rises. 10 51 2 20 18 Thu. 4 45 | 19 Fri. 4 44 7 16 22 Mon. 4 41 23 Tue. 4 40 7 20 24 Wed. 4 39 7 21 25 Thu.|4 38|7 22 26 Fri. PHASES. Full Moon 18th, 1h. 56m. mor. ready; and not the least of our motives for urging the establishment of a system is, to put an end to the nosystem's wasteful extravagance." Industry. "Dr. Carey completed the translation of the entire Scriptures in seven of the principal languages of India, viz. the Sungskirt, the Bengalee, the Hindu, the Ooriya, the Mahratta, the Punjabee, and the Assamese. In addition, he completed the translation of the New Testament in twenty-two more, and portions of both Testaments in several others, beside superintending the printing of the translations in other languages still. These early translations, made in the first stages of acquaintance with the languages of the East, were necessarily very imperfect; but they show what a single individual may accomplish in very difficult circumstances, under the influence of the love of souls, when it becomes the master passion." "Either keep silence, or speak something better than silence." Euripides. "Let no man think it a light matter that he spend his precious time in idle words." St. Bernard. Bodily infirmities, like breaks in a wall, have often become avenues through which the light of heaven has entered to the soul, and made the imprisoned inmate long for release.". Dr. Watts. The above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller: : "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, |