wonder-worker. It converts duties into delights, and penances into pleasures. Are you wealthy? In making you so, heaven kindly intended for you the joy of acting as the friend and benefactor of the poor. That you may be fenfible

how effential love is to the cheerful difcharge of the duties of beneficence, turn your eyes towards Dives: In him you behold one of the wealthiest of the fons of fortune. His cellars, his barns, his coffers, are all bursting out with abundance; but his heart poffeffes not one spark of love. Alas! the fad confequences of his lacking this one thing needful. Hence, though poffeffed of wealth fufficient to enable him, like the good angel of his neighbourhood, to fcatter bleflings around him on at least fifty needy families; he lofes the joy, and they the benefit of fuch noble charities. Deftitute of love, Dives takes no delight, even in feeding the hungry,

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in cloathing the naked, or in foothing the forrows of ficknefs and poverty. Unhappy Dives! Works of love which bleffed angels would prefer to their nectar and ambrofia, are fet before thee, but thou haft no relifh for them. Dives keeps a fplendid table, has vast apartments, rich furniture, coftly jewels, a large number of fervants, and fumptuous equipages; and that is enough for him; his poor childish fancy has no idea of any thing fuperior.

BUT fee the noble and excellent Demophilus. Demophilus poffeffes an eftate not inferior to that of Dives; but his eftate, though ample, is not half fo ample as his heart. Demophilus denies himself all the pomps and superfluities of life, in order that he may fwell the tide of his liberality to the poor. It were an endless, though pleafing task, to relate how many friendiefs little children he has educated, how many

many poor young tradefmen he has fet up in good bufinefs; and how many helpless old perfons, provided for by his bounty, are now spending the evening of their days in peace and comfort. Every day is to Demophilus a day of happiness, because it is fpent in offices of kindness to thofe whom love has taught him to view in the endearing light of relations; and, in ferving whom, he acts with all the alacrity of a brother. Thus love employs him in fuch good works as yield the pureft pleasures while he is engaged in them, and the remembrance of which will be a well of sweetest waters fpringing up in his bofom to eternal life.

ARE you a poor man? You will find love to be equally effential to your haphapiness. Love will not only preserve you from all the pangs of envy and difcontent; those infernal vipers which pry on the vitals of too many of our

poor brethren! But it will enable you to look with the joy of a brother on the fuperior profperity of your neighbour. It will infpire you with that fublimeft devotion, prayers for your wealthy neighbour, that he may be fenfible of the bleffings he poffeffes in poffeffing wealth and power, that he may be thankful for them, and put them to fuch good ufe as at once to please the fupreme giver, to win the gratitude of the poor, and to fill his own heart with joy.

ARE you in debt to your neighbour? Then it nearly concerns you to love him. I will not indeed fay, that if you do not love, you will never pay your debts, for a sense of honor may incline you, as it does many who are deftitute of love, to be honeft; but this I will fay, that if you love your neighbour, him with much more cer

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A CERTAIN lawyer-a cafe in pointmade application to a certain hair-dreffer for a wig. The generous tradefman, who was just about to fit down to dinner, invited his cuftomer to take pot-luck with him. After having made a plentiful repast, and emptied the second bowl, "Now Sir," faid the benevolent fhaver, addreffing his gueft, "I'll make you as handfome a wig as ever graced the head of a counfellor."-" No, that you fhall not."" Hie! what's the matter? Did you not come to bespeak a wig?" "True, I did, but I have altered my mind. You are fo clever a fellow that I have a great liking for you, and this makes me fcorn to take an advantage of you : For were you to make me a wig, I do not know that I fhould ever be able to pay you

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