Politeness

One f tho língiisn infiilels was so truck vvilh die politeness and gooi] eling rpanifestd in St. PaulVTOritiijgs, hut he atfirmed if St. Paul had eáid he ïimswl! rmd ever perfor-ned a miníele, lo wouid believe it, becíuHB howas too r.uoh oltgf ntloiiKin to teil aa untruth. Wiia'evft' wu w.iiy think ol thisrernark, we capnot bilt be Htruck 'vith the power vhich politenes has over the infidel ud as thi.s intidol is n)t ari esception, t may be well to show some few of thé idvantagea of being poüte : 1. VVeconfoni) t. ihü Soripturo. Ií S:, ?aul tiiugtit politenuss by liis example wo diij he in tiis writingH. LJeteÜH us 'In 6000'rweiriust p.oferona nnother." ilere s the grunt secret oí poütenesp, viz , furgutfuloese of welt. In another )!ace ha suys, " Jíe courteou ''in other wordt), be polite. 2 Wu niïiku frionds. Nothinsjso wins upo'i straiigera as true [lolitenos. A ule atteitir, ehown in n stage, or 'm the oars, or al a publiu ti-.ble, costn us very litile. But what an eíiect has it upon ihe persons to whoin the atteniion sbowD. Tho pleaed look, thograti iud Btiiiie, show usthut we have guined a friend. 3. We increiise our usefulnesp. Oix; raason wbjmi tiisters aja 1 go id Ctiriatian le-iple have no more inrluence, is on ac count ol their.sour fauo and forbiddifig joonteirances. Tliey look as ií th y ard - keep away from me. Uut if they allow t.ho vulgar to pprouch within reach of their [n:ijc3tic pre.-ence, there s SL pornpous rnaorier or way they havo, wliioh prevents the hearts of other.- goitig out to tliem, and thus the infla once over sm h people is lost. 4. It i_rives succe. Let any man who n;iH goods to soll, or office t at.ain, ba kind and polite no sham like that put )n by tho lOÜücians, ;i rxj lus goodfl are so!d and his offine reaohad, ten tiipes ■oouer thaji the man who looks tnad cuts off hi" calicóes and cloths. Politoness, of all thiogu earthlv, costs the least, bul its power, it is nor, Püving too miich, is treinendous. As WúJ'nej Smitii said of Daoiel Webster, he was n steun ensiine in trowsarn, po wc prj' of the re'ily genuino polito man - he, too' is h s eam eng'no - his power in his particular sphere ís yfoñderful. He, other thingH being B'riytbing like equal, will acoompfinh good in the world.