The Poverty Of Prosperity

lieech r, in a recent sertnoa, ays : - '"I veiily beliove that men who prng per by wickedness lose their capacity f i r eijiiyment ; so that there are thousands oi' overswollen jirosperous tnen who are not onc tenth as hnppy as tbc tnen wbo have almost nothing. Why, there are poor worknien in yond r citv with such pitifut stipends that they can Bcarcely rnnke both ends meet, who are vet a great deal bappior tban tho millionairo whom they serve. There are men that ha e gone tbrough the progperity of what are called secular tilinga in this world, who look out envionsly, and somelimes almost s:dly, upou tlie swart laborer, aüd ay, "Oh ! if I hd no niore anxiety than be hns ; if I could ouly whiB'le aud ging as he does ; if I had his lungs, and ouuh arms as he has; if I were as happy as he is, I think I would be willing to give up all my wealth." Oh ! the heart-aching cares the rust and biting, the envies and jou 1ousies, the compe itions and rivalries, t'ie a'tiitiong of a life keycd in the lov? r range of the hum-rn facult s ! These miseries belong to such nn-u ; and if you could look into them you would not be deceived, nor seduced, Dor persuaded to take their plticc."