Miscellaneous Extracts from Various Authors

There has appeared in this our day, a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and with the Gentiles is accepted as a prophet of truth, but his own disciples call Him the Son of God.

He raiseth the dead, and cureth all manner of diseases; a man of staturé somewhat tall and comely, with a very reverend countenance, such as the beholder may both love and fear; his hair is of the colour of a filbert, full ripe, and plain down to his ears, but from his ears downwards, somewhat curled, and more orient of colour, waving about his shoulders. In the midst of his head, goeth a seam or partition of hair, after the manner of the Nazarites; his forehead very smooth and plain ; his face, nose, and mouth so framed, as nothing can be reprehended ; his beard somewhat thick, agreeable to the hair of his head for colour, not of any great length, but forked in the middle, of an innocent and mature look; his eyes, grey, clear, and quick.

In reproving, he is terrible; in admonishing, courteous and fair spoken, pleasant in speech, amidst gravity. It cannot be remembered that any have seen him laugh, but many have seen him weep.

In proportion of body, well shaped and straight; his hands and arms most beauteous to behold; in speaking very temperate, modest, and wise ; a man of singular virtue, surpassing the children of men.

WHAT IS CHARITY.

It is not to pause, when at my

door
A shivering brother stands;
It is not to ask why he is poor,

Or why he help demands.

It is not to spurn that brother's prayer,

For faults he once has known,
It is not to drive him to despair,
And
say

that I have none.

The voice of charity is kind,

It thinketh nothing wrong,
To every fault it seemeth blind,

Nor vaunteth with its tongue.

In penitence it placeth faith,

Hope smileth at the door,
Believeth first, then gently saith,

Go, brother, sin no more.

RELIGION is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

E. Burke.

ON A WATCH PAPER.

A Watch may teach unthinking man,
That life is but a transient span:
His reasoning power the balance shows,
Time like the hands tells how it goes ;
Conscience the regulator proves,
And self-inspection faults removes;
With this and earnest prayer each night,
Wind up thy watch, and set it right.

ON RECEIVING TWO WOODCOCKS. My thanks I'll no longer delay,

For the birds which you shot with such skill, And though there was nothing to pay,

Yet each of them brought in a bill ;
I mean not, my friend, to complain,

The matter was perfectly right,
And when bills such as these come again,

I'll always accept them at sight.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other, will be much disappointed. The primitive sincerity will ac

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