y is never to learn
to play them, and so be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations
and encroaching wasters of time.

178

Cards were at first for benefits designed,
Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

179

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

--_Haliburton._

180

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy
labour; and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

181

To win a cat, and lose a cow. (Consequences of litigation).

--_Persian._

182

Deliberate well on what you can do but once.

183

A life of caution is overpaid by the avoidance of one serious
misfortune.

184

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

185

Never sign a paper you have not read, nor drink water you have not
examined.

186

No two persons are ever more confidential and cordial than when they are
censuring a third.

187

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

--_Bovee._

188

Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding--that civility is best which
excludes all superfluous formality.

189

The only sure things are those that have already happened.

190

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Dr. Chalmers of Scotland, arrived in London, on the 13th of May, 1817,
and on the following day preached in Surrey Chapel, the anniversary
sermon for the London Missionary Society. Although the service did not
commence till eleven o'clock, at seven in the morning the chapel was
crowded to excess, and many thousands went off for want of room. He rose
and gave out his text from 1 Cor. xiv, 22-25. He had not proceeded many
minutes till his voice gradually expanded in strength and compass,
reaching every part of the house and commanding universal attention.
His sermon occupied about an hour and a half in the delivery. A
gentleman wrote to a friend: "I have just heard and witnessed the most
astonishing display of human talent that perhaps ever commanded hearing;
all my expectations were overwhelmed in the triumph of it."

At an afternoon service he preached in the Scotch Church, in Swallow
Street. On approaching the church, Dr. Chalmers and a friend found so
dense a mass within, and before the building, as to give no hope of
effecting an entrance by the mere for