wounded trees had long ago made Christmas logs, and blazed and roared away. The deep green patches were no greener now than the memory of those who lay in the dust below. The plowshare still turned up from time to time some rusty bits of metal, but it was hard to say what use they had ever served, and those who found them wondered and disputed.

7. An old dinted corselet and a helmet had been hanging in the church so long that the same weak, half-blind old man who tried in vain to make them out above the whitewashed arch had marveled at them as a baby. If the host slain upon the field could have been for a moment re-animated in the forms in which they fell, each upon the spot that was the bed of his untimely death, gashed and ghastly soldiers would have stared in, hundreds deep, at household door and window, and would have risen on the hearths of quiet homes, and would have started up between the cradled infant and its nurse, and would have floated with the stream and whirled round on the mill, and crowded the orchard and burdened the meadow, and piled the rick-yard high with dying men. So altered was the battleground, where thousands upon thousands had been killed in the great fight. DICKENS.

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SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Alter: L. alter, the other of two; fr. al'ius, another... Corselet fr. the L. cor'pus, body. . . . Goblet: L. cu'pa, a tub; h., cup, cupola, etc. Host, an army: L. hos'tis, an enemy.... Insect: L. insectum; fr. in'seco, insec'tum, to cut into; fr. in and sec'o, I cut; the name insect being given to certain small animals, like the ants, wasps, etc., whose bodies appear cut in or almost divided; h., bi-sect (bi: bis, twice), dis-sect, inter-sect, sect, section, segment, etc. . . . Lapse: L. lab'or, lap'sus, to fall, to slide; h., col-lapse, e-lapse, re-lapse. Legendary : v. ELECT.... Prevail: L. præval'eo; fr. præ and val'eo, val'itum, to be strong, to be of value; va'le, farewell; h., a-vail, con-valescent (becoming wholly sound), equi-valent (æquus, equal), in-valid, valiant, valid, valor, value, etc. ... Reveal: L. rev'elo, rev-ela'tum, to unveil; re, back, and vello, I veil or cover; h., de-velop, en-velop, revelation, veil. Season: F. sai'son; fr. the L. sta'tio, station; h., the point fixed, the propitious moment; fr. sto, I stand. Spire: L. spi'ra; Gr. spei'ra, that which is wreathed or coiled.... Stalwart or Stalworth, strong, bold: A. S. stælweordh, worth stealing or taking, and afterward extended to other causes of estimation. . . . Survive: contr. fr. the L. supervi'vo, I outlive; sup'er, above or beyond, vi'vo, vic'tum, to live; h., con-vivial, re-vive, viand, victual, vital, vivacity, vivid, etc. . . . Timid: L. tim'idus; fr. tim'eo, I fear; h., intimidate, timorous.

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LXVII.-MORNING HYMN OF ADAM AND EVE.

I.

THESE are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous then!
Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens,
To us invisible, or dimly seen

In these thy lowest works; yet these declare
Thy goodness beyond thought and power divine.
Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle his throne rejoicing-ye in heaven!
On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

II.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,

If better thou belong not to the dawn—

Sure pledge of day, that crowned the smiling morn
With thy bright circlet-praise him in thy sphere,
While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Thou sun-of this great world both eye and soul-
Acknowledge him thy greater; sound his praise
In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st,
And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fall'st.

III.

Moon, that now meet'st the Orient sun, now fly'st
With the fixed stars, fixed in their orb that flies,
And ye five other wandering fires that move
In mystic dance not without song, resound
His praise who out of darkness called up light.
Ye mists and exhalations that now rise
From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray,
Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold,

In honor to the world's great Author, rise;
Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers,
Rising or falling still advance his praise.

IV.

His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines,
With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise!
Join voices, all ye living souls; ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,

Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.

V.

Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
The earth and stately tread or lowly creep,
Witness if I be silent, morn or even,
To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade,
Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Hail, universal Lord! be bounteous still
To give us only good; and if the night
Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed
Disperse it as now light dispels the dark.

MILTON.

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SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Choral : relating to a choir; fr. L. cho us; Gr. chor'Ŏs, a dance in a ring, a company of singers; h., choir (a band of singers in a church), chorister, etc. . . . Divine: L. divi'nus, belonging to a deity; fr. di'vus, a god; h., divinalion, etc. . . . Exhalation: L. exhala'tio; fr. ex and ha'lo, hala'tum, to breathe; h., ex-hale, in-hale. Extol: L. extollo, I raise up; fr. ex and tollo, I raise. . . . Orb: L. or'bis, a circle, a ring; h., ex-orbitant (deviating from the usual orbit or track, excessive), orbicular, orbit, etc. Pine L. pi'nus, a pine tree. . . . Rejoice: F. re'jouir (rě-joo-eer); fr. L. re and gau'deo, I rejoice; h., joy, joyous. Symphony: Gr. sumphō'nia, a harmony of sounds; fr. sun, with, and phō'nē, a sound, the voice; h., eu-phony (an agreeable sound, eu, well), phonetic, phor ic. Throne: Gr. thròn'os, a seat.

LXVIII.-ON CHEERFULNESS.

1. It has been said that men succeed in life quite as much by their temper as by their talents. However this may be, it is certain that their happiness in life depends mainly upon their equanimity of disposition, their patience and forbearance, their kindness and thoughtfulness for those about them. In seeking the good of others we find our own. There are some natures so happily constituted that they can find good in everything. There is no calamity so great but they can educe consolation from it, no sky so black but they can see somewhere in it a gleam of brightness; or if the sun be not visible to their eyes, they at least comfort themselves with the thought that it is there, though veiled from them for some good, inscrutable purpose.

2. Though cheerfulness is much a matter of inborn temperament, it may be cultivated like any other habit. We may make the best of life or the worst of it, and it depends much upon ourselves whether we extract from it joy or misery. Encourage the disposition of looking at the bright side of things rather than the dark; and while you see the cloud, do not shut your eyes to the silver lining. Cheerfulness is the bright weather of the heart. How is it that we see such men as Palmerston growing old in harness, working on vigorously to the end? The reason is, they preserve their cheerfulness and equanimity of temper. They have educated themselves to the habit of endurance, of not being easily provoked, of bearing and forbearing, of hearing harsh and unjust things said of them without indulging in unprofitable resentment.

3. Johnson was of the opinion that a man grows better as he grows older, and that his nature mellows with age. This is certainly a much more cheerful view of human nature than that of Lord Chesterfield, who saw life through the eyes of a cynic, and held that "the heart never grows better by age; it only grows harder." But both sayings may be true, according to the point from which life is viewed and the temper by which a man is governed; for while the good, profiting by experience

and disciplining themselves by self-control, will grow better, the ill-conditioned will only grow worse.

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4. Sir Walter Scott was a man full of the milk of human kindness. Give me an honest laugher," he used to say; and he himself laughed the heart's laugh. He had a kind word for everybody, and his kindness acted like a contagion, dispelling the reserve and awe which his great name was calculated to inspire. "He'll come here," said the keeper of the ruins of Melrose Abbey to Washington Irving—" he'll come here some time with great folks in his company, and the first I know of it is hearing his voice calling out, ‘Johnny! Johnny Bower!' And when I go out, I'm sure to be greeted with a joke or a pleasant word. He'll stand and laugh with· me just like an auld wife; and to think that of a man who has such an awfu' knowledge of history!”

5. Sidney Smith was another illustration of the power of cheerfulness. Whether working as country curate or as parish rector, he was always kind, laborious, patient and exemplary, exhibiting in every sphere of life the spirit of a Christian, the kindness of a pastor and the honor of a gentleman. He employed his pen on the side of justice, freedom, education, toleration, emancipation, and his writings, though full of common sense and bright humor, are never vulgar. Never does he cater to prejudice or make bids for popularity. His good spirits, thanks to his natural vivacity and stamina of constitution, never forsook him; and in his old age, when borne down by disease, he wrote to a friend: "I have gout, asthma and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well." In another letter he wrote: "If you hear of sixteen or eighteen pounds of flesh wanting an owner, they belong to I look as if a curate had been taken out of me."

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6. The poet Rogers used to tell a story of a little girl, a great favorite with every one who knew her. Some one said to her, "Why does every one love you so much?" She answered, "I think it is because I love every one so much." The story is capable of a very wide application, for our happiness as human beings will be found to be very much in