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inefficient and powerless of human beings; but, let the warwhoop sound, or a deer go bounding past his wigwam, and he is instantly as full of fire, strength, and endurance, as a warhorse. All his slumbering energies have aroused themselves. He feels the force of an adequate purpose. A man's love is his life; and here we see its illustration. The very life's love of the Indian, is war and the chase. In the pursuit of them, every energy of body and mind is brought into activity. But when the tomahawk is buried, or he comes home from his hunting-grounds, he sinks into apparent imbecility.

4. The Indian is a mere savage, and the instincts of his nature are his prompters. But civilized man stands far above him, and is, or ought to be, actuated by reason, and not by instinet. His rational intelligence should give him the force of an adequate purpose; and this it will give him, if he but call in its aid.

5. Activity is the result of some end or affection of the mind. Where no purpose is in the mind, there is indolence; but where there is an end in view, of sufficient importance, all the powers of the mind come into spontaneous activity. Now, will any young man say that there are not objects for him to attain, of sufficient importance to awaken him from his habits of indolence? We know there is not one, who does not, at times, feel the necessity of concentrating every energy he possesses, for the accomplishment of some end. But the evil is, the thoughts are not kept steadily fixed, but are allowed to wander off, or retire, in mere idle musings; and thence comes indolence; for if there is no fixed purpose, there will be no activity.

6. The first thing to be done, in the correction of this habit, is, deliberately to resolve upon doing something worthy of an effort. Let the object in view be worth attaining, and let there be an end in the mind beyond its mere attainment, - an end

of actual utility. In determining the object of pursuit, a good question for any one to ask himself, is, "In what am I deficient?" There will doubtless be answers enough to this question, to awaken all a man's energies, and invigorate his efforts. The next question ought to be, "What will be most useful for me to do?" When this question is settled, let him resolve steadily to prosecute his purpose, and in so doing, his success will be highly probable.

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7. Most of us sleep too much. From six and a half, to seven hours' sleep, in the twenty-four, are said, by physicians, to be all that a healthy man requires. To a young man, who has acquired the habit of indulging himself in morning slothfulness, it will be something of a trial, to rise at five o'clock, in both winter and summer; but the self-denial practiced in doing this, will be so fully repaid, in a short time, that we are sure no one, who has waked up to the responsibility of his position, and the incalculable benefits that must result from efforts, such as he is making, will sink down again into disgraceful indolence.

8. It is no hardship to rise early; it only requires an effort at first; and when one is fairly awake, and begins to drink in the pure morning air, and to feel a refreshing sense of new life and vigor, he rejoices that he is not lost in dullness, or leaden insensibility. The heavy torpor, that we find so hard to overcome in the morning, and which we rest in as a pleasant sensation, is misery, compared to the sense of life that runs through every nerve of body and mind, after pure, cold water has touched the face, and the lungs have expanded with the fresh and invigorating morning air.

9. But next to indolence, with which all are more or less affected, comes want of order, which, in some, is a constitutional defect, and in others, the result of education, or, more correctly speaking, the want of education. But it is never too

late to correct this defect, and the quicker a young man the better. As nothing great can be accomplished without industry and an earnest purpose, so nothing great can be accomplished with any good degree of success, without order. The one is indispensable to the other, and they go hand in hand, as co-workers in the young man's success and elevation.

LESSON LXXXIII.

THE CURE FOR MELANCHOLY.-C. WILCOX.

1. Wouldst thou from sorrow find a sweet relief?
Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold?
Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief?
Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold.
"T is when the rose is wrapped in many a fold
Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there
Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled,
Leaf after leaf, its bosom rich and fair

Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air.
2. Wake thou that sleepest in enchanted bowers,
Lest these lost years should haunt thee on the night
When death is waiting for thy numbered hours
To take their swift and everlasting flight;

Wake, ere the earth-born charms unnerve thee quite,
And be thy thoughts to work divine addressed;

Do something do it soon with all thy might;

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An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God himself, inactive, were no longer blest. 3. Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined;

Pray heaven with firmness thy whole soul to bind
To this thy purpose, to begin, pursue,

With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind,
Strength to complete, and with delight review,
And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.

4. No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit
To light on man as from the passing air;
The lamp of genius, though by nature lit,
If not protected, pruned, and fed with care,
Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare;
And learning is a plant that spreads and towers
Slow as Columbia's aloe, proudly rare,

That 'mid gay thousands, with the suns and showers Of half a century, grows alone before it flowers.

5. Has immortality of name been given

To them that idly worship hills and groves,
And burn sweet incense to the queen of heaven?
Did Newton learn from fancy, as it roves,

To measure worlds, and follow where each moves?
Did Howard gain renown that shall not cease,
By wanderings wild that nature's pilgrim loves?
Or did Paul gain heaven's glory and its peace,
By musing o'er the bright and tranquil isles of Greece?

6. Beware lest thou, from sloth, that would appear But lowliness of mind, with joy proclaim

Thy want of worth,— a charge thou couldst not hear
From other lips, without a blush of shame,

Or pride indignant; then be thine the blame,
And make thyself of worth; and thus enlist
The smiles of all the good, the dear to fame;
'Tis infamy to die and not be missed,

Or let all soon forget that thou didst e'er exist.

7. Rouse to some work of high and holy love,

And thou an angel's happiness shalt know,—
Shalt bless the earth while in the world above:
The good begun by thee shall onward flow
In many a branching stream, and wider grow;
The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours,
Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow,

Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers,
And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.

LESSON LXXXIV.

SALADIN, MALEK ADHEL, AND ATTENDANT.- ANON.

Attendant. A stranger craves admittance to your highness. Saladin. Whence comes he?

Atten. That I know not.

Enveloped in a vestment of strange form,
His countenance is hidden; but his step,
His lofty port, his voice in vain disguised,
Proclaim if that I dared pronounce it,—

Sal. Whom?

Atten. Thy royal brother.

Sal. Bring him instantly. [Exit Attendant.]
Now, with his specious, smooth, persuasive tongue,
Fraught with some wily subterfuge, he thinks

To dissipate my anger. He shall die!

[Enter Attendant and Malek Adhel.]

Sal. Leave us together. [Exit Attendant.] [Aside.] I should know that form.

Now summon all thy fortitude, my soul,

Nor, though thy blood cry for him, spare the guilty.
[Aloud.] Well, stranger, speak; but first unveil thyself,
For Saladin must view the form that fronts him.

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