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vantage of your benevolence. In watering others, you shall be watered yourself.

We are aware of the difficulty of complying with this counsel, in many cases, and none are more peculiarly trying than those of clergymen, who, from declining health, advancing age, or some untoward events, have been dislodged from posts of active usefulness, and have now nothing to do which is suited to their character, capacity, and circumstances. Such, it is well known, is often the unhappy condition of some of the most useful, as well as respectable and venerable ministers of the church; and it is one of the ominous signs of the times, that their number seems to be increasing. From the emoluments of their calling, few derive more than the means for a very frugal maintenance of their family, and therefore, when by reason of age and multiplied infirmities, the grasshopper has become a burden, they find superadded to all their afflictions the trials of poverty. We will not enlarge; but for ourselves, we are constrained to say, that we feel it to be a material defect

in our ecclesiastical economy, that their condition and claims are not more particularly and tenderly regarded; that in view of the resources and benevolence of the Church, something has not been projected at least, if not carried into effect, by which such an important casus omissus should have been provided for, some feasible plan by which their remaining strength, their stores of learning and experience, may be turned to a profitable account, and these Mnasons of the ministry made happy and useful during the remnant of their pilgrimage. Persons subject to depression should "WATCH AND PROMOTE BODILY HEALTH.

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A counsel which we quote from a letter of the friend mentioned in our introductory note. We did not then know to what extent his sense of the value of health was suggested by the precarious state of his own. The influence of the body on the mental and moral faculties, shows the importance of a scrupulous attention to the former; to the use of all the means by which it may be preserved from any form of disease, and in the healthful exercise of all its

functions. The fact cannot be impressed too deeply, that the connection between our sad and joyous emotions and our health is as inseparable as is that between the machinery of a clock or watch and the hands on the dialplate: the movements which meet the eye are right or wrong, according to the condition of the wheels and parts that are invisible

Sine animo corpus, nec sine corpore

Animus, bene valere potest.

The mind or body ill, each partner feels

The sufferings of the other.

On a subject of so much interest we have the teachings of many authors, some of whom not only weary by their diffuse details, but greatly perplex the mind by their disagreement among themselves. To those who need instruction most, and who have not the opportunity nor the time for much reading of this sort, it may be useful, at the risk of being thought prolix, to recapitulate and present again, in a connected form and with some amplification, a few of the instructions given very briefly in the preceding pages on the

authority of Drs. Holland, Hall, Rush, and others, that enforce the "duty of health," such

as

DUE DISCRIMINATION AND SELF-CONTROL IN RELATION TO OUR FOOD.

That we abstain from whatever is found to injure, and restrict ourselves rigidly to that sort and amount of aliment, whether animal or vegetable, which is most conducive to our general vigour and enjoyment, and which best comports with an active, cheerful, and sound mind in a sound body. Plutarch says that his countrymen, the Baotians, were remarkable for their stupidity because they ate too much. They were good trencher-men, and good for nothing else. Let these and preceding hints on diet be properly heeded by the religious man, and his own experience will prove that his spiritual as well as intellectual enjoyment and usefulness are closely connected both with the quality and quantity of his daily food, and the right times for taking it. Richard Cumberland says in his Memoirs, Nature has given me the hereditary blessing of a constitutional

and habitual temperance, that revolts at excess of any sort, and never suffers appetite to load the frame. I am accordingly as fit to resume my book or my pen the instant after my meal, as I was in the freshest hours of the morning.

GIVE BOTH MIND AND BODY SUFFICIENT REST, AND AT THE PROPER SEASON.

Not a small proportion of that despondency which is so incident to the sedentary class comes from excessive study at unseasonable hours. It is one of the "diseases of literature," to which good men are as liable as others. It is night study, Dr. Johnson says, that ruins the constitution, by keeping up a bewildered chaos of impressions on the brain during the succeeding sleep-if that can be called sleep which is constantly interrupted by incoherent dreams, and half-waking trains of thought. Physiologists have proved that periodical rest is necessary to the reproduction of that power in the nerves by which the will is enabled to act on the muscles. A due proportion of repose, therefore, is essential to the proper manifestation of mind in the orderly

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