neighbours, some show their malice, and are witty upon their sorrows; others show their justice, by reproof and reflections; few show much charity, especially where money is required. They have a right to censure who have a heart to help; to censure and offer no help is cruelty.

Some men's censures come not from a dislike of what is wrong, but from an over-much love of their money. If they were to find no fault, they could not for shame refuse help; but when they can heap reproach on the unhappy, they think they may shut their pockets without shame.

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Censure should go before misfortune, compassion should come after. It is abuse to preach of a man's faults when there is no remedy, and not reproof. proof is a charity when properly timed and well administered; but it is persecution when mistimed and misplaced.

If all were doomed to suffer on earth the evil consequences of the faults which they strive not to correct or prevent, we shonld have more reprovers than we have; and yet in eternity this will be the rule.

The work of the Holy Spirit is not intended to supersede the use of our faculties, but to direct them aright. He does not work without us but by us; he does not change, and convert, and sanctify us, by leaving us idle spectators of the work, but by engaging us in it. Hence the admonition of the Apostle to the Phillipians, ii, 12, 13,-" Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." The exhortation, you perceive, does not say, Since it is God that worketh there is nothing for you to do, and you may therefore sit still. No; on the contrary, it is, Do your work, for God works in you. God's working in us is a motive for our working. It is the breeze that wafts the ships along, but then the mariner must hoist his sail to catch it; it is the rain and sunshine that cause the seed to germinate and grow, but the husbandman must plough and sow; for though the seed cannot grow without the influence of the heavens, so neither can it grow without the sowing of the husbandman.-James's Anxious Enquirer.

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