SIMILES.

HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

QUOTATIONS.-As God has not devoted our bodies to toil, but that he allows us some relaxation; so, doubtless, he indulges the same relaxation to the mind.— Government of the Tongue.

Too much labour and study weaken and impair both the body and the mind.-J. Ray, F. R. S.

A bow long bent waxeth weak.-Ray's proverbs,
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temperance over appetite to know

In measure what the mind may well contain ;
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns

Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.-Couper.
Even God has appointed one day of rest in every seven,
Laden, but not encumbered with her spoil;
Laborious, yet unconscious of her toil;

When copiously supplied, then most enlarged; Still to be fed, and not to be surcharged.-Couper. Necessity and the example of St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge, teach us, that it is lawful to relax our bow, but not to suffer it to be unstrung.-Jer. Taylor.

The mind on work for aye intent,
Is like a bow that's always bent.

Too too will in two.-Cheshire proverb.
Assez y a si trop n'y a.

L'abondanza delle cose ingenera fastidio.

L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso.

Arcum intensio frangit.—Publius Mimnermus.

Lusus animo debent aliquando dari

Ad cogitandum melior, ut redeat sibi.-Phædrus.

Quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est.— Seneca.

Arcus nimis intensus rumpitur.

Ne te quæsiveris extra.-Horace.

Ludo et joco uti licet cum gravibus seriisque rebus satisfecerimus.-Cicero.

Otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis,
Immodicus contra carpit utrumque labor.-Ovid.
Detur aliquando otium quiesque fessis.

Dulcis est desipere in loco.-Horace.

Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines,
Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.-Horace.

CONCLUSION....

THEME CVI. The Face is an Index of the Mind.

1ST REASON.-The connection between the mind and body is somewhat similar to that between the dial-hands and works of a common watch.

2ND REASON.-The mind moves the will, and the will moves the muscles; by which means it telegraphs on the face its mandates, wishes, and aversions.

3RD REASON.-Over many natural impulses, emotions, and affections, of mind, the will has no control, and especially over conscience, which is called "the moral sense:" All these domonstrate their operations involuntarily, and affect the motion of the blood, the vibration of the pulses, the colour of the cheeks, the contour of the face, and the general frame of the body, but especially the more delicate parts of the physiognomy.

4TH REASON.-Constant habit has so powerful an influence on the mind and body, that it has been termed "a second nature." And the constant habit of cheerfulness, piety, benevolence, satire, licentiousness, ill-temper,

care, and so on, are all stereotyped by habit so strongly in the face, that no effort of mind can remove the characters.

5TH REASON. The body was designed by God to be the mind's interpreter and visible representative. The hands execute its commissions, the feet post on its errands, the mouth heralds its ideas, the eye is its electric telegraph: so that the body may be called the sensible antitype, or histrionic impersonator of the mind.

6TH REASON.-The science of physiognomy and phrenology corroborate the remark, that "the face is an index of the mind."

QUOTATIONS.-Wickedness changeth the face, and darkeneth the countenance like sackcloth.-Eccles. xxv. 17. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.—Prov. xv. 13.

Many men by every muscle in the face discover what thoughts their mind is fixed upon.-Serj. Palmer's aphorisms and maxims.

In the forehead and the eye,

The lecture of the mind doth lie.-Ray's proverbs.
I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions start.
Into her face; a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appeared a fire,
To burn the errors that these princes hold
Against her truth.—Shakspeare.

This is the man should do the bloody deed;
The image of a wicked heinous fault
Lives in his eye: That close aspect of his

Doth show the mood of a much-troubled breast.

Shakspeare.

From the features of a man's face we may draw pretty accurate conjectures of his temper and inclinations: but his looks and countenance distinctly declare the advantages of fortune; and we may read in them, in unmistakeable characters, how many thousands per annum a man is worth.-Serj. Palmer's aphorisms and maxims. Hastings. His Grace looks cheerfully and smooth this morning;

Ely.

There's some conceit or other likes him well,
When he doth bid good morrow with such

spirit.....

What of his heart perceive you in his face? Hastings. Why that with no man here he is offended; For were he, he had shown it in his looks.* Shakspeare.

The colour of the King doth come and go,
Between his purpose and his conscience,
Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set.
Shakspeare.

As the clapper strikes the bell vibrates.

A good countenance is a silent commendation: for the rays of the soul passing through it discover what degree of brightness is within, so that the aspect seems designed not only for ornament but information. For what can be more significant than the sudden flushing and confusion of a blush, the sparklings of rage, or the lightnings of a smile.-Serj. Palmer's aphorisms and maxims.

Vultus index animi.

Frons est animi janua.—Cicero.

Heu ! quam difficile est, crimen non prodere vultu !

Vitiant artus ægræ contagia mentis.

Ovid.

*Although Hastings was deceived in his conjecture respecting Gloster, who always seemed a saint when most he played the devil," yet the correctness of the rule is not invalidated by this exception, but rather corroborated: For had not the face been generally an index of the mind," Hastings would not have trusted the cunning looks of the artful Richard,

THEME CVII. Science the Handmaid of Religion.

INTRODUCTION

1ST REASON. By the ART OF PRINTING ignorance is put to flight, knowledge diffused, and error compelled to submit to truth.

Without the aid of printing the Reformation could never have been achieved, because the influence of bribery and power would have been sufficient to arrest the propagation of Bibles; but now that they are issued by thousands and tens of thousands, no artifice of priesteraft, no rescript of princes, no arm of man, can prevent their diffusion.

By printing four things are secured: 1. speediness of execution; 2. quantity; 3. cheapness; and, 4. accuracy; and without it an extensive propagation of the doctrines of the Bible seems morally impossible.

Printing was invented about 1430, by one Laurentius Koster, a native of Haeriem, a town in Holland.

2ND REASON.--By the MARINER'S COMPASS ships are conducted securely from one port to another; and without it the boldest seaman can only creep cautiously along a coast, without veuturing beyond sight of land; but with it the most distant voyages can be undertaken, and intercourse carried on between the remotest continents and islands of the globe.

Without the help of the mariner's compass, America, New Holland, together with all the islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, would probably be still unknown to the Eastern world: so that, although the art of printing had been discovered, though millions of Bibles had been prepared, though fleets of ships had been equipped, and thousands of missionaries had been ready to embark, yet all would be of no avail without the mariner's compass to guide their course through the trackless ocean.

Supposed to have been invented by Flavio Gioia, of Amalfi, in Campania, about 1302, but not used commonly for navigation till A. D. 112).

3RD REASON.-The invention of PAPER FROM RAGS is almost as important as the two inventions already mentioned. Before paper was made, the bark of a reed