to receive special help from her teachers and associates, and not be made unhappy by being reminded that she has been a servant in the family of some young miss perhaps of the school. If a young man, without the means of getting an education, is anxious to cultivate his mind, and gives promise of usefulness as an educated man, that regard to his happiness which we ought to have towards all our fellow-creatures will lead us to aid and encourage him in his struggles to progress in his studies. If a servant in the family does not know how to read, to write, or to perform the common operations of arithmetic, it would be a deed of benevolence to instruct him. Even the

children of a family might do this. We may add very much to the happiness of servants by giving them books to read, and showing an interest in their having good, and even tasteful clothing.

5. The sorrowful, the melancholy, and the insane, are a class of unhappy beings who may be very much soothed and comforted by kindness. We should feel for such the deepest sympathy, and by many little kind attentions give evidence to them of our tender regard. We can try to divert them from themselves. We may invite them to walk with us; present to them new objects; read to them some interesting story; send them flowers; not suffer them to

How may we add to the happiness of servants? What other class of the unhappy is mentioned? What should we do for such?

be much alone; and in every way that kind feeling can invent endeavor to win them back to happiness.

CHAPTER II.

BENEVOLENCE TO THE WICKED.

"The epitome of all that Jesus taught is, if you would be mighty, be kind.”

Ir is wrong to suppose that a person is destitute of all good feeling, and has no regard to what is right, because he has been guilty of some crime. He may have been under the influence of sudden anger; the temptation may have been a very powerful one; and, in an evil time, his better feelings, his sense of justice, may have been entirely overcome, and in the moral insanity of the moment the crime was committed. It may have been followed by an agony of sorrow, and by the firmest resolution to do evil no more. Perhaps his self-control is weak, he falls in with bad companions, his desires overcome his reason and judgment, and again and again he does wickedly.

Perhaps the love of intoxicating drinks is the besetting sin. It may be profanity or lying, gambling, stealing, or other dishonest means of getting money. In such cases, we ought not to

Subject of Chapter II.? Motto? What wrong suppo sition is noticed? What palliations are spoken of? How should we treat such offenders?

refuse all intercourse with the offenders, and treat them as though they had no good qualities, and were to be cast out from society.. We should approach them with kindness, and be willing to learn all the palliations of their wrong-doing, as they exist in their own minds. We should show that we are ready to restore them to our confidence, if they will reform. We must try to draw forth and strengthen. the better parts of their nature. We ought to point out to them the way in which they may gain a good character, and be respected by the world, and in every way in our power aid them in doing well for the time to come.

If a person who is guilty of great misconduct is cast off and neglected, and made to feel that he never again can be respected, he has no encouragement to try to reform, and is led to think he may as well keep on in his evil courses. And thus the young boy or girl, who, for only one wrong act, perhaps, is slighted and scorned, goes on from bad to worse, until he becomes perfectly devoted to crime, as the business of his life, when a kind feeling of others towards him in the first instance, and a desire to do him good, would have saved him from a life of infamy and shame.

Sometimes there is found in school a bad boy, who takes great pleasure in troubling others. And generally the whole school treat such a

What if such are cast off and neglected? What is the result? What is said of the bad boy in school?

one as though they expected nothing but evil conduct from him, and therefore he is sure to fulfil their expectations. Here is a little story, which shows the effect of a different mode of treatment. 'Two children, about seven years old, named Judah and Ann, attended the same school. Judah was a boy of mischievous disposition, and seemed to delight in tormenting Ann. He would prick her with pins, push her down, knock her books out of her hands, and in every way try to vex her. One day Ann came home crying bitterly, because Judah had thrown her down, and told her he would kill her.

"Before going to school again, she selected from her books one filled with stories and pictures, and carried it with her. As soon as school began, she went to the teacher and asked to speak with Judah. She went to him, reached out the book, and said, Would you not like to have this book? He hung his head and looked ashamed, but took the book, turned over the leaves, and looked at the pictures. Is it for me to keep forever? he asked. Yes, said Ann, kindly, I want to give it to you. He said no more, but kept the book, and Ann went to her seat. He has never troubled her since, and never will."

A desire to do good to those who are guilty of bad conduct, or even of the greatest crimes, is not inconsistent with our abhorrence of vice,

Story of Judah and Ann? Is the desire to do good to the guilty inconsistent with our abhorrence of vice?

or our wish that persons dangerous or injurious to others should be so confined that they can do no harm. The more we detest their wickedness, the greater may be our efforts to reform them, and to restore them to that happiness which, by their evil doing, they have lost.

The object of all punishment should be to reform the offender. If he is imprisoned for his crimes, he may be kept perfectly secure from escape, and not be treated like a brute animal. He need not be denied the use of books and the means of improvement, nor forbidden to see a friendly face, and to hear a kindly voice. It is not well that he should be shut out from all the humanizing influences of trees, and flowers, and the green earth, of moon and stars, and even of sunlight and the blue sky. Such a course of treatment tends to call forth the angry passions, to excite revenge, to brutalize the man, and to prepare him to come forth from his cell a thousand times more a villain than he was when he entered.

We should the rather act upon the truth of the old proverb: "Beneath every jacket lives a man;"we should remember that very wicked though one may be, he still has some of the sensibilities and the affections of a man; that there may be some tender place in his heart, still unseared by crime, which will cause him

What should be the object of all punishment? What is said of the treatment of prisoners? What is the effect of such a course of treatment? How should we the rather do?