made the very worst, and degenerate into the most offensive. Money is a power, and if some eminently scientific and economical persons have wept over the waste of power in the wagging of dogs' tails, we are not going to be so inconsistent as to despise so great a power as money. Why money quickens the inventive genius of the world, creates the useful and fine arts, establishes and extends commerce, multiplies material wealth, and advances civilization. Of course it does other things of a very different kind. So does the steam-engine; it propels ships and blows them up. So does the wind; it wafts gentle zephyrs, and diffuses a southerly warmth, and it rages with stormy violence, and pierces to the bones and marrow. So does the sun; it beautifies and enriches the earth with its genial rays, and scorches the crops it has fostered, and breeds pestilence and death. Money, like all great powers, is a power for evil and good,-it can both bless and curse. There's this, however, about money that cannot be said of the steam-engine, or the sun, or the wind,-it is in our own hands and under our own control. We may have the

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use without the abuse,-the advantages without the mischiefs of it. Like some preachers we wish to press upon your attention every word of our text-" Put money in your

purse." In your purse, mark. your purse, mark.

have it ready for use.

That means Don't hoard it up

He

selfishly, for money is a mighty magician, and when it accumulates and begins to tarnish for want of healthy circulation, it undergoes a mysterious chemical action, and a haunting apparition comes forth from the closely locked coffer, and its owner becomes the victim of a grim spectre which never leaves him day or night. He will think and talk about, see and hear, taste and feel, nothing but money. will be fascinated by the love of it for its own sake, and will practically worship it. It will rob him of his reason, freeze every fine feeling of his heart, spoil his whole humanity, transform him into a demon, and finish by starving and killing him outright. Don't lock it up for fear of the magician, put it in your purse for ready and judicious use.

Let

Again, we say, "put money in your purse,' not with a niggard but liberal hand. your porte-monnaie be of ample dimensions;

the old-fashioned yellow bag, or the more ancient pouch at the girdle were goodly vehicles. You may leave too much behind in the strong box, and beware of the magician!

"There's a curse in the strong box,
With its massive bolts and locks,
Laden with glittering store;

A fiend is forming there.

Oh beware! Oh beware!

Unlock the fatal door.

been imprisoned for a week in the island of Alderney, in consequence of bad weather.

No

vessel either from the continent or the neighbouring islands had visited us during this time,

and in this uncomfortable position we were waiting for the opportunity of postal communication to send to London for a remittance, as our money was quite exhausted.]

SERMON XVII.

SABBATH-SUNDAY.

"Now, really, this appears the common case
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday-
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?"

HOOD.

If it is your pleasure, Ladies and Gentlemen, to be informed on our opinions in reference to the social institution of Sunday, we shall be very happy to comply with your request; but you are quite in error when you say that we seem to have studiously avoided touching on subjects about which there is considerable difference of opinion, and which might possibly endanger our popularity with a highly-respectable and influential portion of the community.