designs, furnishing useful works, and bringing good designs to perfeetion. Sueh a man gains the affeetion and gratitude of soeiety. Pleasant to him is the retrospeet of his past, the enjoyment of his present, and the prospect of his future existence.
In eonclusion, I would advise you to be as industrious in the acquirement of useful knowledge as in the aquisition of money or other kinds of wealth. Above all, study to aequire a taste for reading. Of all the amusements whieh can possibly be imagined for a hard-working man, after his daily toil, or in its intervals, there is nothing like reading an entertaining book. If I were to pray for a taste whieh should abide by me under every variety of cireunstanees, and be a souree of happiness to me through life, and a shicld against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it, of course, as a worldly advantage, and not as superseding or dcrogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles—but as an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you ean hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest—with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest eharaeters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations—a eotemporary of all ages. Thus enjoying himself, he may forget the "ills of life" fully as much as if he were ever so drunk, with the great advantage of having saved his money for more useful purposes—he is a happy man, and he beeomes a souree of happiness to all around him. The world, in short, has been ereated for him.
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J. SMITH, PRINTER.
