kind, with such tenderness and affection as you love yourself. Think how God loves all mankind, how merciful he is to them, how tender he is of them, how carefully he preserves them, and then strive to love the world as God loves it.

Do good, my son, first of all to those that most deserve it, but remember to do good to all. The greatest sinners receive daily instances of God's goodness towards them, he nourishes and preserves them, that they may repent and return to him: do you therefore imitate God, and think no one too bad to receive your relief and kindness when you see that he wants it.

The time of practising these precepts, my child, will soon be over with you; you will soon have done with the world, and the world will soon have done with you. It seems but the other day since I received these same instructions from my dear father, that I am now leaving with you. And the God that gave me ears to hear, and a heart to receive what my father said unto me, will, I pray and hope, give you grace to love and follow the same instructions.”

Thus did Paternus educate his Son.

REMARKABLE instance of JUSTICE.

A MERCHANT of Smyrna had a son, who,. after profiting by that confined education which the Turks generally give their children, had risen to the office of Naib, (lieutenant to the Cadi, or mayor of the city), one of whose duties is to in

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spect the weights and measures which the merchants and dealers use in commerce. One day as this officer was going his rounds some neighbours of an old merchant, who knew enough of his character to suspect that he might stand in need of caution, advised him to be prepared for the visit of the Naib, and take care to conceal his weights and measures before he should appear: but this old offender, thinking that as the Naib was his own son, he would not expose him to public disgrace; laughed at their advice, and with great unconcern waited at the door of his shop for the arrival of the officer.

The Naib, who was not ignorant of his father's character and disposition, and who had often warned him in vain of his danger, was now resolved to make an example of him. Addressing him therefore in a grave tone, he commanded him to produce his balance and weights in order to their undergoing a public examination.

The old merchant assuming a smiling countenance, begged his son to pass on, and to come and dine with him on his return: "No," replied the officer sternly, "let me first see if your weights are just; soldiers, bring me hither immediately, his balance and weights." The father, after having seen his fraudulent weights and measures destroyed, vainly imagined that all was over, and began to console himself for the loss he had sustained, when the Naib condemned him to pay a fine of fifty piastres, and to receive the same number of blows with a stick on the soles of his feet,

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as if he had been an indifferent offender, which punishment was inflicted on the spot.

The son then dismounting from his horse, threw himself at his father's feet, and with tears addressed him thus: "Father, I have discharged my duty to my God, to my sovereign, and to my country; permit me now to acquit the debt I owe to a parent. Justice is blind, it is the hand of God upon earth, it knows not parents; you have of fended justice, another would have punished you: I am sorry it has fallen to my lot, but my duty is my supreme law. My conscience would not suffer me to act otherwise; let me beseech you to be just for the future, and instead of blaming, pity that son, who after having several times admonished you in vain, has been compelled by your own fraudulent behaviour and obstinacy to exercise the severity of the law against you."

Having said this, he mounted his horse again, and continued his course, amidst the acclamations and praises of the multitude, for so extraordinary a piece of justice.

The sovereign being informed of this adventure, he shortly afterwards raised the young Naib to the office of Cadi; by degrees he was promoted to that of Vizier, and no one in that station ever displayed more prudence, wisdom, and justice.

TRUE COURAGE.

IN the reign of Queen Anne, a young man in the county of Berks, being disgusted with a wo

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