But seek that hidden treasure
At home, sweet home!"

Cultivate each other's tastes, cater for each other's comfort, and care for one another when absence divides you. The most trifling attention, the smallest mark of affection that shows you have thought of each other, will knit you in closer bands, and increase your mutual confidence.

Make yourselves acquainted with each other's prejudices and prepossessions, that you may avoid giving pain inadvertently, and be able to add to each other's pleasures. Foster each other's virtues, gently reprove each other's failings, and especially help one another in holy things. Your sabbaths and your seasons of devotion depend much on each other's piety. The support of a wife strengthens a Christian husband; the defection of a husband sadly weakens a Christian wife; "Consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works."

Love one another for life and for death, for earth and for heaven; for no love but this will endure amid the change of seasons, and the trials and temptations of the world. Practice no use

less reserve towards each other, and make LO confidants of others in regard to things which ought ever to be locked up in your own bosoms : an inattention to these points will cost you dear.

Avoid, as you would avoid the plague, the poor, pitiful spirit of striving for the mastery. This is a rock on which many a goodly matrimonial vessel has been wrecked. God's word has

declared the husband to be the

head of the

wife," and from God's word there is no appeal. The same Divine authority that says, "Husbands, love your wives," says also, Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands." Neither of these injunctions can be neglected without disturbing the other; for if the husband loves not his wife, how can he expect her willingly to submit to him? and if the wife submits not to her husband, how can she reasonably expect him to love her? Be of one mind in these points, for you cannot walk together lovingly unless you are agreed.

The following remark, though expressed in a homely way, is well worth your attention: "If you have made your calculations for fine weather only, go and bespeak an umbrella, for be sure you will have need of it. If you think to look at each other always with the same fond and affectionate regard that you have yet done, you will be mistaken. I tell you, in spite of your fairy dreams of unabated love, that if you go through the first year of married life without a single your heart-burning, you will deserve to have your pic

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tures framed and glazed, and hung up in the market-hall for universal admiration. No! no! I will tell you the truth; however you try to flatter and deceive one another, you are a pair of poor, weak, erring, sinful creatures, requiring help from on high every moment of your lives, to keep you from inattention, from selfishness, from bitterness, and from hatred. If you really wish to love one another always, you must love God always-for none but God can preserve your affection, and enable you to bear each other's burdens."

Thus might we go on quoting and commenting by the hour, but we must not overwhelm you with our remarks. To sum up all-mistrust yourselves; seek constantly for Divine aid to keep your feet from straying into crooked paths, and your hearts from wandering into evil ways. Fear God, and keep his commandments; hold in remembrance the sacrifice of the Saviour;— love one another, and bear one another's burdens :

We will not paint the future hours,
In hues that truth denies;

Nor deck with artificial flowers

The scenes that round you rise.
There will be frosts, and faded leaves,
And clouds we know there will;

Thorns spring amid the rosy bower,

But when dark shadows round you lower, And sad and pensive thoughts have power, Bear with each other still!

While fancy spreads her glittering toys
With sunshine on her wings,
Remember well that earthly joys

Are transitory things.

The sun that glows so fair and bright

Will set behind the hill;

Then, should a tear-drop dim your eye,

Let hope and faith the sorrow dry,
And, while you lift your thoughts on high
Bear with each other still!

Exultingly go on your way

While youth and health are given,
With many a gladsome earthly ray
And sunny beam from Heaven.
A banquet fair, profusely spread,
E'en now awaits your will;

Unnumber'd blessings court your choice,
Yet, hear your heavenly Father's voice,
And, while your glowing hearts rejoice,
Bear with each other still!

ON OVERWHELMING

CALAMITIES.

THERE are, perhaps, few who have lived long in the world who have not, at one period or other, been brought into contact with some fearful affliction and overwhelming calamity. I am about to enter on the relation of an occurrence of this kind, which, unless my memory be treacherous, I have not before described. In doing this, I am going back to a season when my brow was ungraven with years, and when gray hairs had not yet numbered me among those whose earthly days must of necessity be drawing to an end. These backward glances, these reminiscences of the past, when they remind us of calamities from which we have been mercifully preserved, ought to redden our cheeks with shame for our ingratitude, excite in us fresh impulses of thankfulness, and add a new string to our harp of praise.

I was once acquainted with two brothers; they were young men of respectable family and good connexions, and were engaged in a prosperous business. Scarcely was their dwelling more than