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[JUNE, vants, admits of no dispute; but as the path of duty is the way of safety, they are entitled to no good when they walk out of it.

"Love your enemies." This is the most sublime piece of morality ever given to man.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. The eloquence of prayer consists in the fervency of desire, and the simplicity of faith.

The heart, says one, of a child of God, is a brotherly heart, in respect of all other Christians: it asks nothing but in the spirit of unity, fellowship, and christian charity, desiring that for its brethren, which it desires for itself.

Nothing tends more to humble pretenders to devotion than to show them that they understand neither Scripture nor religion, when, relying on external performances, they neglect love to God and man, which is the very soul and substance of true religion. True holiness has ever consisted in "faith working by love."

DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY.

G. B.

THE tenth annual meeting of the District Visiting Society was lately held in the lower room at Exeter Hall. The Marquis CHOLMONDELEY took the chair, and said that the Society was one which called for the particular attention of the religious part of the community. He dwelt upon the great good which the Society had effected, both as regarded the temporal and spiritual necessities of the poor, and that was not all that it did, for it must be recollected that the effects on the visitors themselves were highly beneficial. It was quite impossible that they could return from the abodes of misery and want, to all their blessings, comforts, and luxuries, without feeling grateful to the Author of all good, and without sympathising with those whom Providence had placed beneath them in the scale of society. The report they would find of a nature to encourage them to still greater exertions in the good cause, by showing how much success had already attended their exertions. His lordship apologised for not having taken the chair at their last annual meeting, after having promised so to do; but the cause of his disappointing was, that the meet

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ing of the Naval and Military Bible Society took place on the same day, and that Society had a prior claim on his services.

The report was then read. It stated, that although the expectations of some of the more sanguine friends of the Society had not been realized, many individual instances of their usefulness were on record. They had been the means of promoting the better observance of the Sabbath, the attendance at Sunday schools, establishing clothing and relief funds, and forming libraries of useful and improving books in many parts of the country; and although their labours had been in some cases vain, in others the grain of mustard-seed had been sown, was growing, and its effects must become evident. Much has also been done by establishing Provident Societies, receiving from and keeping for the poor, sums which would be thought too immaterial to place in Savings-Banks.

The Bishop of CHICHESTER moved the adoption of the report, and dwelt upon the usefulness of the Society, especially in this metropolis, where the inhabitants were so many as to render it impossible that the clergy could adequately administer to their spiritual wants.

The Rev. J. SHORT seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Other resolutions were also adopted in furtherance of the objects of the Society.

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STARCH of an inferior quality is used in the manufacture of hard confectionery, such as lozenges, sugar plums, and similar articles. Those which are sold about the streets are generally composed of the offal of starch works, mixed with plaster of Paris, pipe-clay or chalk, and as little sugar as is able to give them a palatable sweetness; but what is worse is, that they are often coloured with red lead, verdigris, gamboge, and other pernicious ingredients.

CULTIVATION OF THE POTATO.

THE inferior quality of this valuable root having now become a subject of very general complaint, the Committee of the North Devon Horticultural Society intend to offer prizes for seedling potatoes.

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HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, AT WINCHESTER.

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HOSPITAL OF ST. JOIN THE BAPTIST, AT WINCHESTER.

THIS Hospital was founded by St. Brinstan, Bishop of Winchester, in the year of our Lord 934; and it is supposed to have afterwards become the property of the Knights Templars. In the year of the suppression of that order, John Deverish, a citizen and magistrate of Winchester, obtained permission of Edward II. to refound it as an Hospital for the relief of poor soldiers, pilgrims, and way-faring men: the whole was put under the administration of the City Magistrates. In the reign of Henry VI., Richard Deverish, a descendant of the former, added a new foundation for the more frequent performance of Divine Service in the Chapel of the Hospital. This establishment was put an end to, in the reign of Henry VIII., and the funds were seized; but, after a time, the bare walls of the building were restored to the corporation. In 1554 it was again endowed by Richard Lamb, for the support of six poor widows of citizens, with a lodging, and three shillings and sixpence a week each. About the year 1811, the funds of this charity having greatly increased, an inquiry was made into the state of the property belonging to the charity; and a sufficient sum was found to have accumulated to erect a building for the accommodation of thirteen poor men and womendecayed citizens,-with an allowance of ten shillings and sixpence a week: this was completed in the year 1834. The old chapel has been likewise fitted up and endowed.

ON THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.

THE two principal things that very young children require, are to be kept clean, and to be kept in good humour: to be kept clean is necessary for their health, and to be kept in good humour is necessary for the formation of their future character; for many a bad temper is formed. by bad usage, as many a horse is made vicious by an ill-tempered person having the care of breaking him in.

If children were kept clean, and not allowed to eat too much, or to eat unripe fruit, and various sorts of trash,

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very few, in comparison, would be ill: nine out of ten children that are taken to the doctor, are made ill by improper food. Nurses, and ignorant mothers, often think, when a child cries, there are but two ways of making it quiet; giving it food, or giving it medicine: thus, they cram it with food, or give it some drops, or cordial to make it sleep; they forget, or they do not know, that a child will generally leave off crying if it is amused, and that a young child is very easily amused. If a child cries for anything it ought not to have, it will generally be satisfied with something else, and will smile and be pleased till it falls asleep.

There are some disorders which a child will probably have to go through, as measles, hooping-cough, and scarlet fever. If a child has any of these disorders, it is better to take it to a doctor at once, though it may not seem very poorly. Danger often comes on very suddenly; and the doctor is sent for too late. I have not named the small-pox, because it is probable, that, if all children were vaccinated, that complaint would be at an end. Let your child be vaccinated, and thus have the cow-pox, as it is called; and let the doctor see your child once or twice, when the arm is affected. Not one in many thousands have the small-pox after having had the cow-pox; and when it does happen, the disease is generally trifling: those who tell you the cow-pox is no protection against the smallpox, have not considered the subject enough. If you were to go from house to house through twenty streets, you might find a child or two that has had the small-pox after being vaccinated, but you would find a thousand at least who had not.

The doctors vaccinate all their own children: that proves they think it the best plan; and they must know better than any one else can. I have said it is necessary to make a child good tempered: children's temper will often differ. If you have three or four children, no doubt you have seen that one is more passionate than another, that one is more patient than the others; but the best natured child may be made cross, by silly indulgences, or by needless scolding or beating; and the most cross child may be made better by wise, and kind, and patient

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