guilt, and he may suppress the remonstrances of his com science; but he can never be happy. He must truly repent of his sin, and as far as lies in his power, he must make amends to his injured fellow creature, or the curse of God will rest upon him: the fires of hell will still burn within him, though smothered and kept down; and after having spent a life in vain attempts and struggles after peace, he shall go down to the abodes of hell hereafter...

Many of the miseries of married people are to be traced to this one crime. Those who have been absolute profligates, we can never expect to be happy in marriage. It is an impossibility. Those who have been more limited in sinful indulgences, can never enjoy the same happiness in marriage, as those who have kept themselves altogether unspotted. I have known parties who have lived together very unhappily, in consequence of what some would call a very slight trangression. I know others, who, in consequence of their licentiousness, will never be happy, marry whensoever they may. The gates of this earthly paradise are shut against them for ever; and without deep repentance, and an almost miraculous transformation of character, the gates of the heavenly paradise must be shut against them too.

Others are made unhappy in the marriage state in consequence of a crime of another kind. A man may inflict very serious injuries upon a woman, by trifling with her affections. A woman's affections are very serious things, and cannot be trifled with without serious consequences, Little as some may think of throwing away the affection they have won, the crime, in the eye of Heaven, will often

pass for murder. In many cases it proves murder, and

though it is not so reckoned by the laws of men, I doubt not it will be reckoned murder in the eyes of Heaven.

I knew one poor girl who was first courted and caressed, and then deserted, who lost her reason in consequence, and unless she has lately left the world, she remains to this hour, a wild unmanageable maniac, her body and mind a mournful and incurable wreck. I knew another who was cruelly disappointed: she hung down her head like a burdened flower, and never looked sprightly again. I knew another who, in the madness of disap

pointed love, sought relief from her sorrows by a violent death. Many such cases I have known, where the broken-hearted females have sunk down in despondency, and under the maddening influences of disappointment, have run headlong to their own destruction. Can the man who wantonly causes such misery as this escape the wrath of Heaven? As sure as there is a God above, such cruelty will be followed with some terrible mark of his displeasure. Laws made by wanton and hard-hearted men may take no cognizance of such crimes, but no murderer can escape the just judgment of God, whether he destroy his victim by violence or by faithless caresses.

And one means by which sinners of this class are punished, is by unhappy marriages. Those who disappoint others, are sure to be disappointed themselves. "With what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again." They meet with some woman, who understands the art of hypocrisy and inhumanity better than themselves; and while they are laying their snares for another victim, as they think, they are caught in a net which they suspected not, and become miserable captives for life. Let none of those heart-breakers think to shun the danger, for soon or late, love is his own avenger. But if one of those hard-hearted tormentors of the delicate sex, should obtain a partner of the happiest kind, he does not escape unpunished. He carries his punishment in his own soul. No man can trifle with the affections of others, without blighting and killing, or dreadfully disordering his own. The soul of the ensnarer and tormentor becomes seared as with a hot iron, and is rendered incapable either of loving or of enjoying love. "The joy of loving and of being loved," is the greatest earthly joy that man can have. The man that devoutly loves a lovely and a worthy woman, and knows he is devoutly loved by her, enjoys the perfection of sublunary bliss. It is the extacy of man's earthly heaven. This extacy the ensnarer and deceiver of woman's affections never feels. His ugly and infernal soul is dead within him. It is a heap of dirt and rottenness. The smiles and tones and blandishments of love, that would fill the soul of an honest man with delights and transports like the joys.

of paradise, can hardly excite a delectable emotion in him. God's curse rests on his soul; the burning tears of madness have blighted it, and the blood of broken hearts has consigned it to darkness and barrenness and death.

If my young friends wish to enjoy the advantages and pleasures of the marriage state to perfection, let them guard against those two great crimes. They should as soon think of suicide, as of fornication; and of robbery and murder, as of wantonly trifling with the affections of a female. Fix it in your heart, never to commit a crime against modesty and purity, whatever the temptation may be. You may meet with men who will speak of forbidden intercourse in such as intend to marry, as a little thing; but regard them not. Such men are the agents of the great Deceiver, and if you hearken to them they will prove your ruin. Fix your eye upon the truth of God, and attend to that Monitor and Guide within. If any one would wrest the Scriptures, or so explain the nature of marriage, as to make fornication seem a little thing, avoid them: they are corrupt, and you should shun them as you would shun the plague. The Scriptures, the Spirit of God, the wise and pious of the church, and reason and natural modesty, have but this one lesson on this subject-" FLEE LUSTS; THYSELF PURE."

YOUTHFUL

KEEP

And so with respect to the second sin. Guard against hurting the mind of a female, as you would against running a thorn into your own eye. Some men may speak of this as a trifling matter; but either they are only half-made men, or their souls are polluted and degenerated by sin. No man of understanding and virtue, will speak of it as an unimportant matter. A woman's affection is her very life; it is the strongest and tenderest principle of her being. There is nothing on earth so sacred as a woman's love. It is both sacrilege and murder, to make our way into a woman's heart, and spoil her of her soul's first love. No man should seek to enter within the embraces of a woman's love, unless he intends to live and abide there till death. It is the earthly holy of holies, and he that enters it, should enter with the sacrifice of his own

heart's love. Never allow a woman to love you, till you can love her in return. Take no pledge of love but what you can also give. Encourage no female to take a step towards you, unless you can take another step towards her. Run instantly from the first appearances of kindling affection, unless you are prepared to give love for love, and life for life, and soul for soul.

A WARNING.

I KNEW a young man of excellent education, and endowed with every capability of mind for arriving at eminence in any profession, had he been a teetotaller; but he fell into habits of drunkenness-it was his ruin-his utter ruin.

His history may be related in a few words, and should be a beacon to warn every young man, entering on the great theatre of life, to avoid the rock on which all his prospects were shipwrecked.

He was apprenticed to a surgeon; he soon became well versed in his profession. Before he had fully completed his apprenticeship, his master died. The shop-the business-the practiceall became his own. He was universally respected, and was considered a clever practitioner.

For a length of time he succeeded well-he had abundance of practice his prospects were all bright-success attended every effort.

In a short time he began to pay his addresses to the daughter of a publican; he attended the house of her father; he began to drink brandy-the young woman serving him, made his bottoms double strength: he went on drinking. At last he married her. By this time he had got such a love for drink, he must have it. His wife also acquired bad habits-she liked drink.

His home soon became unpleasant, he drank, and neglected his business his practice was soon gone for ever. No one places confidence in a drunkard,-not even those who imitate his bad practices.

Having lost his character-his business-his habits became worse and worse. He got into difficulties-his househeld goods were brought to the hammer-he was without home and without friends.

He still drank when he could get money-he had gotten fairly into the vortex-he could not, or would not, conquer his bad habits.

In a year or two afterwards I saw him, and how altered!ragged-dirty-filthy-distressed-how unlike the sober young man he once was-he sank lower and lower-and soon ended his earthly career. Drink killed him.

Hundreds of young men have fallen in the same way: the

alehouse is the road to ruin-the direct road-in it there is no in struction-no good words-nothing but badness-destruction lurks in the door-way. Friends assemble within-lewd and wicked conversation occupies all the time. Avoid such placesseek virtuous company-read God's word-obey its preceptsand you will not only be temperate, but happy in this world and that which is to come.

Cautions.-Be not over hasty in forming acquantances, lest finding reason to cool, thou make an enemy instead of a good neighbour.

It is one thing to refrain from an acquaintance, and another to break it off: many will allow thee to do the former, that will not endure the latter.

Be reserved, but not sour; grave, but not formal; bold, but not rash; humble, but not servile; patient, but not insensible; constant, but not obstinate; cheerful, but not light; be sweet, rather than familiar; and familiar, rather than intimate; be intimate with very few, and that on very good grounds.

Return the civilities thou receivest, and be ever grateful for favours.

Education. Pythagoras says-" The object of wisdom is to assimilate the human mind to the divine, by the practice of beneficence and truth. Much forethought and discretion are necessary in the education of children. Let them be conducted in the best course of life, and habit will render it pleasant."

Cleomethes, the successor of Zeno, in the school of the stoics, used to say, that "a man without knowledge—he whose outward shape is that of man, but whose mind has not been instructed and informed by education-differed from the vilest of the brute creation in figure only."

Cicero eloquently asks-" What under heaven can there be more worthy of our most strenuous attention than knowledgewhat more worthy of our highest admiration-what more interesting or useful to mankind? Is calmness or serenity of mind the object of our wishes,-what so likely to secure it as the pursuit of that knowledge which enables us to enjoy life in the happiest manner? Or do we esteem above all things unsullied integrity and spotless virtue,-either the study and acquisition of wisdom point out the path, or there is none, to the attainment of these distinctions."

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