e in manner
or dress. 10. Soar, a towering flight.

NOTES.--2. Forgot her ... name. The reference is to the meaning of the
word "concord,"--harmony, union.

4. Celestial bound; i.e., the sky, heaven.

6. The pastor. This was John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who was at this
time a minister at Woodstock, in Virginia. He was a leading spirit among
those opposed to Great Britain, and in 1775 he was elected colonel of a
Virginia regiment. The above poem describes his farewell sermon. At its
close he threw off his ministerial gown, and appeared in full regimental
dress. Almost every man in the congregation enlisted under him at the
church door. Muhlenberg became a well-known general in the Revolution, and
after the war served his country in Congress and in various official
positions.

LXVI. CONTROL YOUR TEMPER.

John Todd, D.D. (b. 1800, d. 1873), was born in Rutland, Vt. In 1842 he
was settled as a pastor of a Congregational Church, in Pittsfield, Mass,
In 1834, he published "Lectures to Children"; in 1835, "The Student's
Manual," a valuable and popular work, which has been translated into
several European languages; in 1836, "The Sabbath-School Teacher"; and in
1841, "The Lost Sister of Wyoming." He was one of the founders of the
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

1. No one has a temper naturally so good, that it does not need attention
and cultivation, and no one has a temper so bad, but that, by proper
culture, it may become pleasant. One of the best disciplined tempers ever
seen, was that of a gentleman who was naturally quick, irritable, rash,
and violent; but, by having the care of the sick, and especially of
deranged people, he so completely mastered himself that he was never known
to be thrown off his guard.

2. The difference in the happiness which is received or bestowed by the
man who governs his temper, and that by the man who does not, is immense.
There is no misery so constant, so distressing, and so intolerable to
others, as that of having a disposition which is your master, and which is
continually fretting itself. There are corners enough, at every turn in
life, against which we may run, and at which we may break out in
impatience, if we choose.

3. Look at Roger Sherman, who rose from a humble occupation to a seat in
the first Congress of the United States, and whose judgment was received
with great deference by that body of distinguished men. He made himself
master of his temper, and cultivated