But although not spotless in the sight of God, and consciously coming far short of perfection in holiness; the earnest desire and settled purpose of the regenerate is "as He who hath called them is holy," to be themselves "holy in all manner of conversation." (1 Pet. i. 15.) They esteem all his precepts concerning all things to be right, and they hate every false way." (Ps. cxix. 128.) All sin is their abhorrence, but especially their own sin. An ungodly or unconverted man may hate the sins of others, while he indulges and delights in his own. Some sins he may dislike and avoid, because they are unsuited to his tastes or habits. He may have a national aversion to the grosser forms of vice; and his habits, acquired by education, may have strengthened that repugnance. Other sins he may shun because they are disreputable, or likely to entail consequences that would be inconvenient, or injurious to his temporal welfare. It is only the true child of God that hates all sin, not merely on these grounds, but chiefly on account of their own hateful nature, as being offensive to God, opposed to the will of his heavenly Father, and as rendering the sinner obnoxious to his just displeasure. "Deliver me from all my transgressions; "-"let not any iniquity have dominion over me;""take away all iniquity;"-such petitions as these are adopted as his constant, heartfelt prayer. (Psalm xxxix. 8; Hosea xiv. 2.) He desires to be "upright before God," and earnestly strives to "keep himself from his own iniquity." (Ps. xviii. 23.) Those sins which are

"True, he was frail, as thou cr I,

And evil felt within;

But when he felt it, heaved a sigh,
And loath'd the thought of sin."

Of such a man it is written, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand." (Ps. xxxvii. 23, 24.) Fall he may, beneath the force of a sudden temptation; but "when he falls he shall arise." (Mic. vii. 8.) The Lord delighteth in his way, not in his fall. His omniscient eye is observant of all his earnest care to avoid temptations and his prayerful anxiety to do right and to preserve a good conscience. And when he has unhappily fallen, the Lord is witness to his penitence. He sees the working of godly sorrow in his heart, and listens to his humble confessions of sin. These are the things in which the Lord delights. "The sacrifices

of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." (Ps. L. 17.) Herein is the wide distinction between the sin of Judas and that of Peter. The former was premeditated; the latter was in opposition to his settled purpose and his sincere reso

lution.

The repentance of the former was remorse, leading to desperation and suicide; that of the latter was 66 repentance unto life," leading to a renewed and more entire dedication to the service of his God and Saviour. J. B. Essex.

YOUNG men, we hear a great deal in these times about social science, social evils, and social reforms; now there is one reform which I deem to be very necessary, that is the laying aside the pipe. It is matter for deep regret that the evil is everywhere on the increase. In walking through the streets in London, broad or narrow, long or short, you see nothing amongst high and low, men and boys, but the pipe, the everlasting pipe, or the more delicate cigar. Now, I have much to say against this evil, alike on physical and intellectual grounds. It is not simply a waste of money, and, let me add, and waste of time, and the contraction of a filthy habit; but it is also a thing which operates most perniciously both upon the mind and the health. I recently met with the speech of a lady, in the United States, where the abomination has reached a point far transcending anything yet seen in this country, but to which we are travelling rapidly on. The following is her noble protest, under the circumstances, much calculated to give it effect:

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Decency, to say nothing of refinement, imperatively demands your attention to one item of reform, namely, a second car for tobacco chewers and spitters. Whilst our sires and sons are tilting about the country continually, we take but one or two journeys a year. These with us are great events. Our trunks and carpet bags are polished up, and a new dress is generally bought for the occasion. All excitement with the preparations and anticipations, we enter the cars. What is it that smells so? What are these men doing? Are they sick at the stomach-are they afflicted with the water-brash? Their lips are browna dark juice runs from the sides of their mouths. How queer they talk. They utter one sentence, then turn and spit out another, as if every alternate idea was a refuse one unworthy of utterance. We hasten on-pass through car after car, to find a decent spot, and clean people, but in vain. So, in despair, we take a seat anywhere, elevate our feet, tuck up our skirts (would the use of Bloomers were general) and there sit, like a bird on its perch, in continual fear lest our clothes may touch the muddy pools below. But who can sit curled up all day? We must come down at last. Nature will stand up and stretch herself. A tired muscle is worse than a dirty skirt.

"Yes, gentlemen, something must

be done with tobacco-chewers and spitters. It is enough to turn the stomach of an ostrich, to step into one of those slippery, disgusting puddles, compounded of phlegm and tobacco-juice. To sit hour after hour, and see those ponds swollen into rivers-to know that your feet are but islands in these waters of filth-that your skirts are all dripping with the vile juices of tobacco, decayed teeth, scrofula and consumption !

It is too much to be quietly endured. Said I to a gentleman, the other day, 'What grade of men are these spitters?''Tobacco,' he replied, 'reduces all its subjects to a level.' If a man smokes and chews, he must spit. Those who are the slaves of their appetites, are always lovers of self and ease. Therefore all chewers and smokers will spit anywhere and everywhere, without the least regard to decency or the comfort of any person but themselves. When

a man has formed this habit, he must cease to be a gentleman." On my last journey, a well-dressed man, seemingly a gentleman, squirted a stream of tobacco-juice on my dress, three times. He was unconscious of what he did. He sat looking out of the window, admiring, perhaps, the Catskill mountains, thinking of some great questions of the day-Free Trade or the Annexation of the Sandwich Islands. I hated to bring him down from such heights to my tweed travelling dress, but the last squirt was too much. 'Sir,' said I, pointing to my dress, 'will you be kind enough to squirt your tobaccojuice in another direction?'

He

blushed to the eyes and did not spit on me again for the rest of the journey, which of course, I considered an act of great kindness and forbearance on his part. Men who smoke and chew, should always be old bachelors, live at hotels, amuse themselves in club-houses, never approach a lady, or kiss a child. They ought to be a distinct class by themselves, travel together, live together, and breathe in each other's

faces. You need not try, young

men, to purify your breath with cloves, cinnamon, cardamon-seeds or sassafras. The tobacco will master the spices. At the very next meeting of the Directors of our Central Road, I hope some one will bring this question up. If any one proposes a separate car for ladies, we protest, on the start. That would be punishing us, instead of the real sinners. Oh, Sirs! we wish to retain all the agreeable men of refinement and taste with us. Let the smokers, and chewers, and spitters, be banished. That is the way it will be in the next sphere. The vile and the filthy will be there together, and the good in a place by themselves. So let us endeavour to make earth as near like heaven as possible." P.P.

GREAT BRAINS IN SMALL
BODIES.

IT is curious to remark how un-
willing people generally are to
believe that a person by much too
short for a grenadier may yet be a
great man.
It is at least equally
curious to note the delight which
nature seems to take in iterating
and reiterating the fact that a very
large proportion of the intellect of
the age just passed away was lodged
with men who fell short of the
middle size. Napoleon was scarcely
five feet six inches in height, and so
very slim in early life as to be well-
nigh lost in his boots and his uniform.
Byron was no taller. Lord Jeffrey.
was not so tall. Campbell and
Moore were still shorter than Jeffrey,
and Wilberforce was a less man than
any of them. The same remark has
been made of the great minds of
England who flourished about the
middle of the seventeenth century.
One very remarkable instance we

and I would earnestly commend to every reader of these lines the purchase. It is there clearly shown, that those who by their genius and perseverance, have raised themselves from the ranks to eminence, have been indebted mainly to their perseverance. Genius and talent but seldom achieve success without it; but, on the other hand, the greatest energy will not raise a man beyond mediocrity if the light of genius does not illumine his mind and keep clear to his view the path that lies before him, and that leads to the eminence he is striving to attain. It is genius which enables one man to see and make use of facts and incidents, which another, equally persevering, but lacking that inspiration, passes by. That gift it was which enabled such men as Stephenson, Brindley, Dr. Alexander Murray, Clive, and Davy, and many others, to emerge from obscurity and to overcome obstacles which otherwise would have been insurmountable; the inward consciousness of intuitive knowledge was the very cause of their perseverance. Nevertheless, eminence is not to be obtained without a severe struggle, and that, perhaps, is the reason why those men who have the hardest strife to go through in their efforts to emerge from obscurity soar so high above their fellows; the more severe the training they have to undergo, the better adapted they become for the attainment of excellence. As Edmund Burke, said, "Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintauce with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will

not suffer us to be superficial."

This is good; but we have something still better: it is recorded in one of Burke's biographies, that his not undistinguished brother, when Edmund had attained to the meridian of his fame, was wont to say, "I see how it is; when we were boys, Edmund never joined us in our sports and plays; while we were busily engaged in those, expending strength and time, he might be seen sometimes in one position, sometimes in another, lounging with a book in his hand; and the consequence is that now while we are all but dunces he stands so high in the eye of mankind." Through lack of perseverance many of undoubted talent have failed; yet we should, as a general rule, be inclined to rank the genius of those who thus sank in the struggle as inferior to that of those who attain more marked success. We select two mentioned by Mr. Adams-one, Trevithick, the Cornish miner, who doubtless but for his want of perseverance would have ranked with Watt as adapter of the locomotive to purposes of draught; another in the person of Lawrence Hernshaw, who seems to have possessed a most wonderful and diversified talent for mechanics, and who, if he had but concentrated his energies on any of the various pursuits in which his fancy led him to indulge must have attained great eminence, for, besides inventing many curious machines, this man, who was first apprenticed to a tailor,