THE NEW BIBLE HOUSE.-In 1816, soon after the formation of the American Bible Society in the city of New York, the agent kept the depository, gratuitously, at his own office, a single room up stairs Within the year, a larger room was found necessary; and within another, the calls for Bibles had so increased that a fourstory building was hired chiefly for printing and binding, in which a room twenty feet square was taken for the depository, which room the agent predicted that he should yet see filled with Bibles! In 1822, a larger house was erected in Nassaustreet, at a cost of $22,500; and in that year 57,805 Bibles and Testaments were issued. In 1829, and again in 1831, additional buildings were erected; and in 1851, two stories were added to a part of the building. The new Bible House is located a mile and a half higher up the city, covering a block of about three fourths of an acre, surrounded on all sides by streets, with a central yard. It is six stories high, the upper stories being occupied for the printing and binding, with machinery driven by steam, the boilers being under the yard; and a portion of the first, second, and third stories is rented for stores and offices, from the proceeds of which the whole debt incurred will be paid. No funds contributed to the Society's general objects are expended for the building. The old Bible House in Nassau-street was purchased by another Bible institution, the American and Foreign Bible Society.

THE INFIDEL'S CHOICE FOR HIS SON.-Niebuhr the German scholar was a prince among historians, and equally so among doubters. And after having tried for a lifetime, and thus known by experience the influence of the so-called rational and doubting system, of his son he says, "He shall believe in the letter of the Old and New Testaments, and I shall nurture in him, from his infancy, a firm faith in all that I have lost or feel uncertain about." What a testimony to the Christian system, and what a condemnation of infidelity.

MOMENTS. Each moment, as it passes, is the meeting-place of two eternities

LIVING AND DYING.-The only certain way to die well, says Calamy, is to live well. God doth not just watch how men die, but he will judge every man according to his works and the deeds he hath done in the flesh; those dispositions we have nourished, loved, and delighted in all our life, will follow and attend us to another world; and an evil nature, however loath we are to it, or sorry for it, will sink us down to the deepest hell.

A little particle of rain,

THE PEARL.

That from a passing cloud descended,
Was heard thus idly to complain ·
"My brief existence now is ended,
Outcast alike of earth and sky,
Useless to live. unknown to die."

It chanced to fall into the sea,

And there an open shell received it:

In after-years how rich was he,
Who from its prison-house relieved it;
That drop of rain had formed a gem,
Fit for a monarch's diadem!

RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC MEN.-Sir Robert Peel, for many of the latter years of his life, was in the invariable habit of every night reading in the Bible or some religious book for some time before retiring to rest. And the favorite book of the late Duke of Wellington, during the last twelve months of his life, was Baxter's Saints' Rest. The dying testimonies of Webster and Jackson are well known. Well has some one said, in view of the expressed faith of the last two, "How puny, even to despicableness, are the sophisms of those little men who charge faith in Christianity with being weakness or hypocrisy, when Daniel Webster and Andrew Jackson bowed themselves to the authority of the Bible. If Daniel Webster be weak, what is strength? If Andrew Jackson was a hypocrite, what is honesty ?"

LORD HAILES AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.-On hearing a gentleman ask, “If at the end of the third century, all the copies of the New Testament in the world had been destroyed, could their contents have been recovered from the writings of the first three centuries ?" Lord Hailes collected all the writers of those centuries, and began the examination. And the result was, that after a time he said to a friend, "I have been busy for these two months, searching for chapters and sentences of the New Testament; and have actually discovered the whole except eleven verses, which satisfies me that I could discover them also. Now," said he, "here was a way in which God concealed or hid the treasures of his word, that Julian the apostate, and other enemies of Christ, who wished to extirpate the gospel from the world, never would have thought of; and though they had, they never could have effected their destruction."

THE POETRY OF THE BIBLE.-Some one speaking in the hearing of the late Daniel Webster, of the sublime poetry of the Old Testament, the latter immediately and seriously remarked, "Ah, my friend, the poetry of Isaiah and Job and Habakkuk is beautiful indeed; but when you have lived, as I have, sixtynine years, you will give more for the 14th or 17th chapter of John's gospel, or for one of the epistles, than for all the poetry of the Bible."

THE BIBLE.-God's Bible is the book for all, just like the winds of heaven and God's sunlight and his pure water, free for all. Good for the prince, good for the peasant. It goes higher than human intellect can reach. It goes lower than human degradation can descend. It is an ocean for an Edwards or a Chalmers to swim in, and to the poor ignorant cottager it is the "small rain from heaven."

THE MAINE LAW AT HOME.-The wholesale traffic in intoxicating drinks has been entirely annihilated. Grog-shops are closed. Temptation is removed from the young; few are made drunkards; drunkards are reformed, and their families are made comfortable and happy. Jails, houses of correction, poor-houses are almost unneeded. Taxes are diminished, and peace and quietness prevail. Two millions of dollars, worse than wasted, have been saved to the state. Pauperism, vice, immorality, and crime, have decreased. The day and Sabbath schools are better attended. Churches are filling up. And after fourteen months' experience of the good effects of the law, what did the people of Maine say? Were they satisfied to let the law stand? What said they at the polls? In the House, 125 were returned in favor of the law, and 25 opposed. In the Senate, 27 were elected in favor of the law, and 4 opposed. The people say the law will stand.

KEEP TO THE RIGHT.

"Keep to the right," as the law directs,

For such is the rule of the road;
Keep to the right, whoever expects
Securely to carry life's load.

Keep to the right, with God and his word,
Nor wander, though folly allure;
Keep to the right, nor ever be turned

From what 's faithful and holy and pure.

Keep to the right, within and without,
With stranger and kindred and friend;
Keep to the right, and you need have no doubt
That all will be well in the end.

Keep to the right in whatever you do,

Nor claim but your own on the way: Keep to the right, and hold on to the true, From the morn to the close of life's day.

PITCHING TOWARDS SODOM.-The Christian man who sacrifices principle to interest, and who makes the law of the Lord a variable thing, is pitching his tent towards Sodom. A gentleman, an officer of the church, some years since opened a hotel in a country village. He did it to support his family, and it was right; but then, to secure custom, he departed from Christian principles, and kept an open bar. In a few years he died, leaving a widow and several sons. The hotel was kept up, and his sons attended at the bar. The sons of that man all became drunkards, they squandered his property, and his widow is now sustained by the benevolence of the church. He was a good man, but he pitched his tent towards Sodom.

HABIT. If we wish to know who is the most degraded and the most wretched of human beings, look for a man who has practised a vice so long that he curses it, and clings to it; that he pursues it because he feels a great law of his nature driving him on towards it; but reaching it, knows that it will gnaw his heart, and make him roll himself in the dust with anguish.

WHO IS TRULY GREAT?-The truly great man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering.

WHAT IS VIRTUE ?-To a student who put this question to the late Dr. Archibald Alexander, his simple and admirable reply was, "Virtue consists in doing our duty, in the several relations that we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellow-men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation."

PASSION. Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so. Bp. Hall.

The Drunkard's Home, or Misery and its Cause.

THE DRUNKARD.-A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is only the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble. He is his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbor's scoff, his own shame. He is a tub of swill, a spirit of sleep, a picture of a beast, and a monster of a man.

INTEMPERANCE.-( -Of over 43,000 persons committed to the New York city prison, the keeper publicly states, that not over one hundred had been brought there, the direct or indirect cause of whose imprisonment could not be traced to the intoxicating cup. Well may the tax-payers, and all the friends of humanity cry out for thorough temperance reforın.

WORTH KNOWING.-Whenever an artisan resident in one of the filthy places leaves off strong drink, the usual course of proceeding is this: He begins to pay his debts; he purchases decent clothing for himself and family; he makes his habitation clean, and provides good furniture; he buys a few books, takes his family to a place of worship; and if not content with being clean and decent among surrounding dirt and wretchedness, he looks for a better residence in some airy and salubrious locality, leaving his unimprovable residence to be occupied by one like his former self, who prefers drinking, smoking, and gambling, to the comfort and decencies of domestic life.