Ears Of Wheat From A Cornucopia.

Wardane four pence , the Fiscell and Officer each of them two pence ; and at ther off goeing each of them is to pay the half . "

Taking Care Of Number One.

TAKING CARE OF NUMBER ONE .

When " number one ' s" mind is taken care ot , it Avill do a great deal t-OAvards taking care of " number one's" body and estate , for knowledge is power . If " number one" is ignorant , the probability is , that he Avill be poor and poor for

life . But altogether apart from the pecuniary advantages Avhich knoAvledge generally affords , it yields pleasures of a pure , refining and ennobling character ; the pursuit of it occupies the mind , refreshes it—strengthens it , and gives it Avondrous

poAver to drive its cares away ; and if intellectual culture has not a directly moralising tendencyj it is thus far in favour of sound morals—that it fills

up the leisure hour , AA'hich might otherwise be given to dissipation . But hoAvever Avell informed a man may become , " number one " has a moral as well as an intellectual nature ; and his moral nature especially is to be taken care

of . "Taking care of number one" is an expression Avhich , iu its highest signification , must include taking care of number one ' s soul ; for this , as I have already remarked , and as every sensible man will admit , this is the best part of " number one . " The time will soon arrive , Avhen all other care of " number one" will be felt to be as

nothing compared Avith this . Neither Avealth nor knowledge , hoAvever great , will compensate for the lack of this . If you do not believe in your immortality , I have no time UOAV to argue the point with you ; but if you do , you will acknowledge

that your soul has a right to be cared for , has the first claim , and not the least upon your care , for the soul is in peril in consequence of sin . It is not fit for the purity and the joy of a heavenly state . It must be set right with God and Avith itself .

Therefore Avhen I say , take care of " number one ' s " immortal interests , of "number one ' s" prospects for a life beyond the present : Am I to live again , do you ask ? Oh yes , my brother , you are to live again ; it is your inevitable destiny . You

are to live again , if there be any truth in the deepest human instinct , in the most vigorous human reasoning , and in the book Avhich most of us I dare say , believe to be from God . You are to live again in glory or in shame ; in happiness or in sorrow . And I appeal to your common sense

Taking Care Of Number One.

to say , whether any man is taking care of himself arig ht—Avhatever care he is taking of his bodyof his estate , of his intellect , if he is taking no care about the future life ; taking no care that it shall be a life of the right sort , and not of the

wrong- sort ; a life Avith angels and good men , and not Avith devils and scoundrels ; a life in the brightness of God ' s presence , and not in the darkness of eternal despair . HOAV is a man thus to take care of " number one ? " I believe the way

to be very simple ; you may differ from me ; you may be sceptical ; still you Avill allow me to give my opinion ; an opinion Avhich I do not hold alone ; Avhich . I do not hold in common with Aveak and superstitious people only ; but an opinion , or rather a deep , strong , most firm conviction held by ten thousand times ten thousand of the wisest and

the best of men ; and that conviction is , that a man takes care of his soul , when he takes care to believe and rely upon the mercy of God , unto eternal life , through the merits of Jesus Christ , Avho eame into the Avorld , not to condemn it , but

to save it . Take care of " number one" then by all means , but take the right sort of care ; consider what " number one" is , and what kind of care it calls for at your hands . Take care of " number one ' s" body and estate , by temperance ,

by chastity , by cleanliness , by healthful exercise , by abstaining from all excess , by industry , by economy , by a wise investment of what you may be able to save . Take care of " number one ' s "

intellect , by feeding it Avith wholesome and not un-Avholsome food . And though I mentionit lastit is not because it is least—for indeed it is far the greatest , take care of " number one's" soul , by trusting in the mercy of your God through the merit of your

Saviour , and by walking in that path of truth and purity and goodness which God approves . Thus , and thus only , can Ave take care of " number one . " So , then , Avhenever Ave hear this common expression , and Avhenever we make use of it , let us consider

Avell its extensive import , and the great practical truths—secular and religious , which Avhen rightly understood , it must suggest to every thoughtful man . —Bev . Btowell Brown .

Freemasonry In The United States.

FREEMASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES .

We are glad to find the Grand Master of Kentucky taking into consideration the necessity for Masonic instruction with reference to which he says : —