CHARITY.

BIBLE.

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2. And, though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3. And, though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

5. Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

6. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but, when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

7. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but, when I became a man, I put away childish things.

8. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

9. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.

QUESTIONS. 1. What is the true import of the word Charity in this piece? Ans. Love; that is, such good will, or affectionate regard for others, as is ever ready to display itself in kind words and benevolent deeds. 2. What does the apostle declare himself to be without charity? 3. What things become profitless without charity? 4. How is charity described in the 4th paragraph?

1. At summer's eve, when heaven's aërial bow
Spans, with bright arch, the glittering hills below,
Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,
Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky?
Why do these hills of shadowy tint appear
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?
"Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain with its azure hue.

2. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey
The promised joys of life's unmeasured way;
Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene
More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;
And every form that fancy can repair
From dark oblivion, glows divinely there.

3. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power,
The pledge of joys' anticipated hour?
Or, if she holds an image to the view,
'Tis nature pictured too severely true.

With thee, sweet Hope, resides the heavenly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight;
Thine is the charm of life's bewildered way,
That calls each slumbering passion into play.

4. Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime
Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began,-but not to fade;
When all thy sister planets have decayed—

When, wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile.

QUESTIONS.-1. What lends enchantment to the view? 2. What is it that thus makes us look with greater interest upon distant objects? 3. How does Wisdom differ from Hope? 4 What is meant by the spheres pealing their notes to sound the march of Time? 5. What is said of the endurance of Hope?

Why the falling inflection on futurity, and the rising inflection on hour, 3d stanza?

1. "God bless our stars forever!"

"Tis the burden of the song,

BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR.

Where the sail through hollow midnight
Is flickering along;

When a ribbon of blue heaven

Is gleaming through the clouds,

With a star or two upon it,

For the sailor in the shrouds.

2. "God bless our stars forever!"
It is Liberty's refrain,
From the snows of wild Nevada
To the sounding woods of Maine;
Where the green Multnomah wanders,
Where the Alabama rests,

Where the Thunder shakes his turban
Over Alleghany's crests.

3. Where the mountains of New England
Mock Atlantic's stormy main,

Where God's palm imprints the Prairie
With the type of Heaven again,-
Where the mirrored morn is dawning,

Link to link, our lakes along,
And Sacramento's Golden Gate
Swinging open to the song-

4. There and there!

How it echoes!

Blot that banner?

"Our stars forever!"

How it thrills!

Why, they bore it

When no sunset bathed the hills.

Now over Bunker see it billow,

Now at Bennington it waves,
Ticonderoga swells beneath,
And Saratoga's graves!

5. Oh! long ago at Lexington,

And above those minute-men,

The "Old Thirteen" were blazing bright-
There were only thirteen then!
God's own stars are gleaming through it,―
Stars not woven in its thread,
Unfurl it, and that flag will glitter
With the heaven overhead.

6. Oh! it waved above the Pilgrims,
On the pinions of the prayer;
And it billowed o'er the battle,
On the surges of the air;
Oh! the stars have risen in it,
Till the Eagle waits the sun,
And Freedom from her mountain watch
Has counted "Thirty-one."

7. When the weary Years are halting,
In the mighty march of Time,
And no new ones throng the threshold
Of its corridors sublime;

When the clarion call, "close up!
Rings along the line no more,

Then adicu, thou blessed Banner,
THEN adieu, and not before!

LESSON CLIII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

AD' AGE, proverb; old saying. {
FI DEL I TY, faithfulness.
CON STIT U ENTS, electors.
CHALLENGE, call forth.
AR' DENT, warm; passionate.
AD HER ED, clung to.
FILIAL, becoming a child.
DIS' CORD, disagreement; strife.

REC' ON CIL ED, conciliated.
ES POUSED, took up.

RI VAL SHIP, a vying together.
PER IL ED, endangered.

IM PEN E TRA BLE, that can not
be entered.

SUR VIVED, outlived.

IN VIN' CI BLE, unconquerable.

SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE REVOLUTION.

HAYNE.

1. The senator* from Massachusetts has thought proper to cast the first stone, and, if he shall find, according to the homely adage, "that he lives in a glass house," on his head be the consequences. The gentleman has made a great flourish about his fidelity to Massachusetts. I shall make no professions of zeal for the interests and honor of South Carolina;-of that my constituents shall judge. If there be one State in the union, Mr. President, (and I say it not in a boastful spirit,) that may challenge comparison with any other for a uniform, zealous, ardent, and uncalculating devotion to the union, that State is South Carolina.

2. Sir, from the very commencement of the Revolution up to this hour, there is no sacrifice, however great, she has not cheerfully made; no service she has ever hesitated to perform. She has adhered to you, in your prosperity; but, in your adversity, she has clung to you with more than filial affection. No matter what was the condition of her domestic affairs, though deprived of her resources, divided by parties, or surrounded by difficulties, the call of the country has been to her, as the voice of God.

3. Domestic discord ceased at the sound, every man became, at once, reconciled to his brethren, and the sons of Carolina were all seen crowding together to the temple,

* Hon. Daniel Webster.