Confidence in God.-Addison.

1. 'How are thy servants blest! O Lord,
How sure is their defence!
Eternal wisdom is their guide,
Their help, omnipotence.

2. 'In foreign realms, and lands remote,
Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes they pass unhurt,
And breathe in tainted air.

3. 'When, by the dreadful tempest, borne
High on the broken wave,

They know thou art not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save.

4. The storm is laid- the winds retire,
Obedient to thy will;

The sea, that roars at thy command,
At thy command is still.

5. 'In midst of danger, fear, and death,
Thy goodness we adore;

We'll praise thee for thy mercies past,
And humbly hope for more.'

The Bible suited to the Wants of Mankind.-Steele.

1. 'Father of Mercies, in thy word

What endless glory shines!
Forever be thy name adored

For these celestial lines!

2. 'Here may the wretched sons of want Exhaustless riches find;

Riches, above what earth can grant,
And lasting as the mind.

3. 'Here springs of consolation rise,
To cheer the fainting mind;
And thirsty souls receive supplies,
And sweet refreshment find.

4. Here the Redeemer's welcome voice Spreads heavenly peace around; And life, and everlasting joys Attend the blissful sound!

5. Oh! may these heavenly pages be My ever dear delight;

And still new beauties may I see,
And still increasing light!

6. 'Divine Instructor, gracious Lord,
Be thou forever near;

Teach me to love thy sacred word,

And view my Saviour there!'

PRINCIPLES OF GESTURE.

Man, as a communicative and expressive being, naturally imparts his states of thought and feeling by visible as well as audible language.) His corporeal organization is adapted to this, among the other ends of his constitution. All vivid and powerful emotions of the human breast, become legible, and are transmitted, by their effects on the features of the countenance, the attitude of the body, and the actions of the arm and hand. This fact is universally exhibited in the unconscious habits of childhood, and, with no less certainty, in those of manhood, when under the influence of earnest feeling. We read each other's inmost hearts in a glance of the eye, a quiver of the features, a change of hue in the countenance, a posture or a movement of the body, or a wave of the hand, more surely than in any tone or expression of the voice. It is but a superficial and narrow philosophy which leads to the neglect of that ordination of Divine wisdom by which the law of language is written on man's exterior frame as distinctly as on his organs of speech; and few among the numerous deficiencies of existing modes of education, are greater, or more unfavourable to the free and full development of the human being, than the general omission of such culture and training as might yield to every youth, and especially to those who are destined to the sacred profession, the unspeakable advantages resulting from a perfect command over all those natural and appropriate aids to expressive utterance, which arise from the cultivation of the eloquence of action.

Man expresses himself most naturally and most effectively

when he obeys the law of his constitution which leads him to use his whole bodily frame as an organ of communication. I He becomes impressively eloquent when the breathing thoughts come 'beaming from the eye,' as well as 'speaking on the tongue,' and 'urge the whole man onward.'

Our conventional modes of life, which quench or suppress expression, by withholding corporeal action,-the natural accompaniment of speech,-are as faulty, in point of true taste, as they are false to nature. The very condition of eloquence in address, is, that we become sufficiently exalted by thought and emotion, to rise above such habits, and to give sentiment an expression and a character to the eye, as well as to the ear. Undisciplined habit may, it is true, carry this, as any other mode of expression, to excess. But the theory which founds on this fact a sweeping objection to the use of action in speaking, is not at all more rational than would be that which should enjoin abstinence from aliment, on the ground of the tendency of ungoverned appetite to excess in eating and drinking.

Genuine culture would prescribe in this, as in other departments of expression, a strict guard against faults of excess, no less anxiously than it would solicit and cherish the power and the beauty of appropriate and proportioned action.

Another current error on this subject of gesture, is, that it is a thing not capable of being reduced to study or systematic practice, that it is a pure result of unconscious impulse, and beyond the search of the understanding. So was musical sound thought to be, till man had the patience to observe it attentively, and trace its relations and its principles. Faithful observation of phenomena and effects, was the condition on which the beautiful, the profound science of music was constructed, and in consequence of which it became a definite and intelligible art, involving processes of systematic execution.

All expressive arts have a common groundwork of principles. Patient application discovers and defines these, and imbodies them in rules. Study and practice follow, in due order; and the result is a recognized form of beauty or of