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While intellect and reason may concur in giving to Browning and Dante a prominent place in the long line of the world's great poets, the heart pleads for the Quaker Bard, of our own time and land. Word-pictures may awe and thrill us, rhetoric and grace of diction may charm the ear; but the keynote of harmony, running through Whittier's rhymes, has its chord in the human affections.

St. Paul speaks of what we understand to be the New Birth, as "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body.

This school numbers, among its present pupils, two children now in the fourth year of their attendance, whose father (the writer) was a member of the school more than twenty years ago, when it stood on Chauncy Street, graduating when it occupied a part of the Globe Theatre Building. He has watched with interest the growth and prosperity of the school; and he realizes, from personal observation, that while the school has seen many ways in which to enlarge and improve its educational departments, the original high standing of moral excellence has remained the same as in his boyhood.

A wasteful  people, we Yankees. We buy foolishly, use foolishly, and throw away foolishly.

LENS AND PRISM. Animal magnetism is an imperfect lens, fitted to the  eye  of ignorance, malice, and superstition, through which it gazes at the chimeras of its own belief—its ghosts, goblins, and demons.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew xxviii.

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. —John i.

That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. Luke.

The following is from the San Francisco Alta:— Mrs. Charles has been for years a great sufferer from neuralgia, and at one time was attacked with congestion of the brain.

Our literary editor is glad to learn the following interesting fact concerning the ancient parish in which his parents were married, in which he was baptized, and in whose Sunday-school he was reared The information is kindly furnished by Rev. E.