Devise not evil against thy neighbour.

As ye would that men should do to you,

impart, as well as to receive; to confer benefits, as
well as to enjoy them; and in conferring to enjoy
them all the more. As the heavenly bodies, moving
harmoniously through space, reflect upon one another
the light that warms them, so we, each in our orbit,
whether as stars of greater or lesser magnitude, are
to regard ourselves as charged with a mission to every
one with whom we associate; our chief question being,
not, How may I derive comfort or happiness? but,
How may I cause other hearts to sing for joy?—not,
How many blessings may I pluck for myself from the
boughs that overhang life's way-side? but, How many
I disseminate? Some persons are like the gaudy,
odourless flowers of the tropics, in which all the fer-
tilising influences of sun and earth go into brilliant
outward show, pleasing to the eye, but nothing more.
Others resemble the blossoms of our orchards, with
their modest purity of garb and colour, yet blessing
all with the fragrance which they exhale, and then
only dying to turn into fruit for man, as if their motto
were, "None of us liveth to himself, and none dieth
to himself." Would that this motto might be in-
scribed upon the opening portals of every youthful
life.

may

COLLYER.

Do ye also to them.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

By suretyship a man maketh enemies.

He that hateth suretyship is sure.

SURETYSHIP.

MONGST all other things of the world, take care of thy estate, which thou shalt ever preserve, if thou observe three things: first, that thou know what thou hast; what every

thing is worth that thou hast; and to see that thou art not wasted by thy servants and officers. The second is, that thou never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. The third is, that thou suffer not thyself to be wounded for other men's faults, and scourged for other men's offences; which is the surety for another; for thereby millions of men have been beggared and destroyed, paying the reckoning of other men's riot, and the charge of other men's folly and prodigality. If thou smart, smart for thine own sins, and, above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men. If any desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee farther, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim; if for a church-man, he hath no inheritance; if for a lawyer, he will find an evasion, by a syllable or word, to abuse thee; if for a poor man, thou must

The cautioner oft-times pays the debt.

Confess debt, and crave days.

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough.

Poverty is no crime.

pay it thyself; if for a rich man, he needs not:
therefore, from suretyship, as from a man-slayer or
enchanter, keep thyself; for the best profit and return
will be this-that if thou force him for whom thou art
bound to pay it himself, he will become thy enemy;
if thou pay it thyself, thou wilt become a beggar.
And believe thy father in this, and print it in thy

thought that what virtue soever thou hast, be it
never so manifold, if thou be poor withal, thou and
thy qualities shall be despised: besides, poverty is
oftentimes sent as a curse of God, it is a shame
amongst men, an imprisonment of the mind, a
vexation of every worthy spirit. Thou shalt neither
help thyself nor others; thou shalt drown thee in all
thy virtues, having no means to show them; thou
shalt be a burden and an eye-sore to thy friends;
every man will fear thy company; thou shalt be
driven basely to beg, and depend on others, to flatter
unworthy men, to make dishonest shifts: and, to
conclude, poverty provokes a man to do infamous
and detested deeds. Let not vanity, therefore, or
persuasion draw thee to that worst of worldly
miseries.

If thou be rich, it will give thee pleasure in health,
comfort in sickness, keep thy mind and body free,
save thee from many perils, relieve thee in thy elder
years, relieve the poor and thy honest friends, and
give means to thy posterity to live and defend them-

Poverty is a hard taskmaster.

The ready penny is the best friend.

Folly is the poverty of the mind.

Jest not with edge-tools.

selves and thine own fame. Where it is said in the
Proverbs that "he shall be sore vexed that is surety
for a stranger, and he that hateth suretyship is sure :"
it is farther said, "the poor is hated even of his own
neighbour, but the rich have many friends." Lend
not to him that is mightier than thyself, for if thou
lendest him count it but lost. Be not surety above
thy power, for if thou be surety think to pay it.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

IDLE FESTING.

E not scurrilous in conversation, nor satirical in thy jests. The one will make thee unwelcome to all company; the other pull on quarrels, and get thee hatred of thy best friends. For suspicious jests, when any of them savour of truth, leave a bitterness in the minds of those which are touched. I think it necessary to give this to thee as a special caution; because I have seen many so prone to quip and gird as they would rather lose their friend than their jest. And if perchance their boiling brain yield a quaint scoff, they will travail to be delivered of it as a woman with child. These nimble fancies are but the froth of wit.

LORD BURLEIGH.

Bitter jests poison friendship.

Lose thy jest rather than thy friend.

There shall no evil happen to the just.

Dare to do right. Nothing can need a lie;

Do RIGHT.

ARE to do right-dare to be singular, if needs be, though the finger of scorn be pointed at you, and your spirit chafes under your comrades' sneers or laughter. Let it be enough that God smiles upon you-dare to strip off sin's artful disguises, to despise its hollow mockeries, to lay open its shallow pretences, and to make your face as adamant against its wiles and its threats-dare to go forth to battle with the Goliaths of evil, though they be of giant stature, and their spears like weavers' looms, and they defy in swelling words the armies of Israel; for the stripling David, with his sling and stone, shall conquer them in the name of the Lord of hosts. Be valiant for the truth, patient under oppression, meek under injury, strong in the anointing Spirit of God; and then the great social evils that we now deplore shall be slain, the better day shall dawn upon the human brotherhood, and the glad reign of love, virtue, peace, and holiness, for which men have so long waited, shall bless this weary world.

COLLYER.

A fault that needs one most, grows two thereby.

Blessings are upon the head of the just.