receive a shock which many years of peace are not able

to repair.

LESSON XLVIII.

Charity: A Paraphrase.-PRIOR.

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue,
Than ever man pronounc'd, or angel sung :
Had I all knowledge, human and divine,
That thought can reach, or science can define,
And had I power to give that knowledge birth,
In all the speeches of the babbling earth :
Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breast inspire,
To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire:
Or had I faith like that which Israel saw,
When Moses gave them miracles, and law :
Yet, gracious charity, indulgent guest,
Were not thy pow'r exerted in my breast:
Those speeches would send up unheeded pray'r :
That scorn of life would be but wild despair':
A tymbal's sound were better than my voice:
My faith were form: my eloquence were noise.
Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind,

Softens the high, and rears the abject mind:
Knows with just reins, and gentle hand to guide,
Betwixt vile shame, and arbitrary pride.
Not soon provok'd, she easily forgives :
And much she suffers, as she much believes.
Soft peace she brings where-ever she arrives :
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays the rough paths of peevish nature ev'n;
And opens in each heart a little Heav'n.

Each other gift, which God on man bestows,
Its proper bounds, and due restriction knows;
To one fix't purpose dedicates its pow'r ;
And finishing its act, exists no more.
Thus, in obedience to what Heav'n decrees,
Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease :
But lasting Charity's more ample sway,
Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay,

Suspension, interruption, cessasion, hanging up.
Resource, resort, expedient, subterfuge.

-Credit, belief, trust, confidence reposed, believe. .Stratagem, artifice in war, trick, wicked device. .Collusion, deceitful agreement, false bargaining. Principles of justice. Can you tell what these are? Paraphrase, a free interpretation, an explanation in many words. Of what is this piece a paraphrase? See 1 Cor. XIII.

Flowing, voluble, eloquent, copious, fluent.

Angel, åne' jêl, a celestial spirit employed by God in human affairs.

Change human and divine, into nouns ending in ty. Change define into a noun ending in tion. What letter is changed?

Change give into a noun.

Which is the primitive? Babbling, prattling like children, talking much, talking idly.

Shadrach Who was he? and what was done to him? See Dan. 3d Chap.

W

Weary tortures, to endure them till they who inflict them are weary.

Faith like that which Israel saw, the effects of which

they saw.

Guest, one entertained by another.

Change power into an adjective.

Scorn of life, contempt of life.

Tymbal, tim bål, a kind of kettle drum.

Change charity into an adjective ending in ble. What letter is changed?

Rears, elevates, exalts, trains up.

Spell reins, he holds the reins;-reigns, the king reigns in righteousness ;-rains, the clouds thicken and it rains fast.

Rough, ruf, change it into a noun.

Peevish, hard to please, fretful, petulant, waspish.
Change dedicates into an adjective ending in ry.
Change exists into a noun. What is its termination?
Change obedience into an adjective,—into a verb.
Add ure to fail; what part of speech is it?

Change ample into nouns having the terminations, ness, tion, er, tude ;-into verbs ending with ate, cate,

fy.

In happy triumph shall forever live,

And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive. As thro' the artist's intervening glass,

Our eye observes the distant planets pass;

A little we discover; but allow,

That more remains unseen, than art can show : So whilst our mind its knowledge would improve; (Its feeble eye intent on things above)

High as we may, we lift our reason up,
By Faith directed, and confirm'd by Hope;
Yet are we able only to survey

Dawnings of beams, and promises of day.
Heav'n's fuller effluence mocks our dazzl'd sight ;
Too great its swiftness, and too strong its light.
But soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd:
The sun shall soon be face to face beheld,
In all his robes, with all his glory on,
Seated sublime on his meridian throne.

Then constant Faith, and holy Hope shall die,
One lost in certainty, and one in joy:
Whilst thou, more happy pow'r, fair Charity,
Triumphant sister greatest of the three,
Thy office, and thy nature still the same,
Lasting thy lamp, and unconsum'd thy flame,
Shalt still survive

Shalt stand before the host of Heav'n confest,
For ever blessing, and for ever blest.

LESSON XLIX.

The Slave Trade.-WORCESTER.

The African slave trade was commenced by the Portuguese in the latter part of the 15th century; the Spanish, English, French, and other maritime powers of Europe, soon followed the example, and established factories on various parts of the African coast, for the purpose of collecting slaves. The number of these unhappy beings, annually forced away, from their native shore, has in some years, exceeded 100,000.

The slaves are divided by Mr. Clarkson into seven

To triumph add ant, and, to this ly; what part of speech is each?

Intervening, coming between, intermediate.

Observes. What nouns can you form from this verb? Change knowledge into a verb;-improve into a noun; Change feeble into a noun ;-into an adverb. Do the same with intent.

What added to high will make it a noun ?-What an adverb ?

What noun ending with ty may be formed from able? .Effluence, that which issues, or flows out.

Change swiftness into an adjective.-Strong into a

noun.

Mediate, interposing.

What adjective can you form from glory? what adverb from this adjective? What adverb from sublime? What noun ?

Spell throne, seated on his throne ;-thrown, on leaving the door he was thrown prostrate.

Change constant into a noun,-holy into a noun. What is added? What letter is changed?

From what adjective is certainty derived?

In forming a noun from happy, what letter would you change?

What letters removed from triumphant will make it a

noun ?

By what change and addition may office be rendered an adjective? another adjective? a noun ?

Change lasting into a verb ;-survive into a noun ;confessed into a noun ;-blessing into a verb.

.Portuguese. In what part of Europe is Portugal ? 15th Century, of what? What is the current century?

English, ing'glish, people of England.

Maritime, sea-faring, naval, relating to the sea.
Factories, houses of traders in a foreign land.
Mr. Clarkson. Give some account of him. App.

classes. The most considerable, and th at which contained half of the whole number transported, consists of kidnapped people. This mode of procuring them, includes every species of injustice, treachery, and cruelty. The second class consists of those whose villages are set on fire, and depopulated, for the purpose of obtaining them. The third class comprises those who have been convicted of crimes; the fourth, consists of prisoners of war; being either such as have been the produce of wars that originate from common causes, or from wars made solely for the purpose of obtaining them; the fifth, such as are slaves by birth; the sixth and seventh, such as have sacrificed their liberty by gaming or by debt; these last, however, are very few in number.

Having lost their liberty in one or other of these ways, they are conveyed to the banks of the rivers or to the sea coast; some from places near, others from afar, sometimes even from the distance of 1000 miles. Those that come from a distance, over land, march in droves, or caufles, as they are called. They are secured from running away by pieces of wood, which attach the necks of two and two together; or by other pieces, which are fastened by staples to their arms.

When the slaves are conveyed to the shore and sold, they are carried in boats to the different ships, whose captains have purchased them. The men are immediately confined, two and two together, either by the neck, leg or arm, with fetters of solid iron. They are then put into their apartments; the men occupying the fore part, the women the after part, and the boys the middle. The tops of these apartments are grated for the admission of light and air, and they are stowed like lumber.

Many of them, whilst the ships are waiting for a full lading, and whilst they near their native shore, from which they are separated forever, have manifested an appearance of extreme depression and distress, insomuch that some have been induced to commit suicide, and others have been affected with delirium and madness.

In the day time, if the weather is good, they are brought upon deck for air. They are placed in a long row of two and two together, on each side of the ship a long chain is then made to pass through the shackles of each