Entracts.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 61, 1 August 1846, Page 2

Entracts.

Honest Prtde. —A man has a right to be proud of a good action, if done, as it ought to te, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. * Let not a man say he cannot govern his passionsc nor hinder them from breaking out and carrying him into action : for what he can do before a prince or a great man he can do alone, or in the presence of God if he will. The merchant suffers care and vexation, toiling; for riches whilst content and competence are within his reach j the conqueror treads- in blood to govern otheis, and leaves himself ungoverned j and the statesman too often seeks for power and popular applause, in preference to the approval of his own conscience. j ' !

Middle Classes of Society.—Placed between the two extremes of life, the tradesman who ventures not beyond bis means, and sees clear books at.dsure gains, with enough of occupation to give healthful excitement, enough of fortune to greet each new horn child without a sigh, might be envied alike by those above mid those below his state—if the restless heart of man ever envied content. There are two kinds of gaiety, The one arises from want of heart: being touched by no pity, sympathising with no pain, even of its own causing, it shines and glitters like a frost bound river in a gleaming sun. The other springs from excess of heart—that is, a heart overflowing with/ kindness towards all men and all things, and suffering under no superadded grief. It is light from the happiness which it causes—from the happi.ness which it sees. This may be compared with the same river, sparkling and smiling under the sun of summer, and running on to give fertility and increase to all within, and even to many beyond its reach.

Disputes.—When we are in a condition to overthrow falsehood and error, we ought not to do it with vehemence or insultingly and with an. air of contempt; but to lay open the truth, and with answers full of mildness and moderation to refute the falsehood. The seasonj,of youth is the chosen soil for philanthrophy. It is there that its seeds take the firmest root. There the world has sown no tares to impede its progress but the lovely plant is permitted to flourish in its growth ! To blight it in i^s bloom by the chilling breath of precaution, seems like exposing an exotic, which we have reared in a conservatory to the blast of December's storms: yet it is the duty of the moralist to guard the inexpeiienced from those deceptions f which, too often are practised in the world.— Miesaplied benevolence is an encouragement to iniquity j and instead of producing the effect de sired, acts as an excitement both to depravity and imposition.