Too Contented

Contení ment is a very good thing in a place, buí it s aid that "virtues car■jii t'i ( x cj.-s beoome vices." Sorae p'c lia :l.o vita of oontciitinent very id. Uurh Miller juwtly reiuarks of ie 8c tt:sb liigblaadurs, i hei r cooten t ent was certHÍnlj lio virtue, "wLcn it lad tt,e eil'ej; of arro-ting ull improveai unermg, wbeu the mea who exnplifj i', ar ■ so ihorouglilj happy amid . dioritieg of the prerent thatthey ail to make provisioa for tho ccmtingeacs of the fui ure." There is no m&iit in bein contentad ith ao oW ioukv roof and patchad wíqows; a tiousu with loóse clapboards, ind taugled donr-yard, whcise onehinged ate givt-a free ingresa to cows and pigs, les- all these tbinga ara positivcly unidlo. "The íiold of tLo sluggard' it with do oommeadtttion froni the isoát i. f uu-ii. Tiio sliiíilcss contentiHit i.t' tbe lazy iiiau is do( akin to tha ■signation ui' the trua Christian, who ubiuits liuubly to the LorJ's will, oveu 'beo no iuation i sorely crossed. Tlie be-t sermón to preaeh to som lenple woiild í-eem to ha tho duty of iseoDtenc witli their presant surround]gs. Tlieru iü no hoj.ie of arouig them ) iiuproveiDont til! tbuy can be shaken wake, a;id made to op6ii tluñr eyes to ie wretoliedues3 tlicir slugish content as bronglit them iot-o ; have them digLiUfiud if you batí witb tbe orazy oíd íouso and broken íVnoe, the sorral-grown etds and garden of uottles. Show them, ie improTement a pound of uails and mlf a day'a labor ould mako on the and yafdv and f need bu leud a elpíng luiud to s'.art ihu ball of improveleut. Ynu vpill ncver lose time ly sucb. nod deoifs ; aud it will giro you satisiction every time you rcctill it When ou bave dnne your best (o improve ourself and yoUrJobuditioD, theu is tha iuiKi and place lor oontentmijnt to come i. Then you muy oheerfutty leave tha Cíults to bigher power, cttirf jil that ou wrU not receivo tiía co:i :omnaton