By Afric's pestilential shore', By many an iceberg, lone and hoar',- Basking in spring's perpetual smile',- 8. Say shall they feel the vessel reel, Hold grappling ships, that strive the while, 9. Hurrah!-cling! clang!-once more, what glows, Dark brothers of the forge, beneath The iron tempest of your blows The furnace's fiery breath? 10. Clang! clang!-a burning torrent, clear And brilliant, of bright sparks is poured Around and up in the dusky air, 11. As our hammers forge the SWORD. The sword! -a name of dread; yet when While for his altar and his hearth,- 12. Whenever for the truth and right Or on some sterile plain and stern, QUESTIONS.-1. What things are mentioned as being forged? 2. What is said of the colter? 3. What, of the iron cable? 4. What, of the sword? LESSON CXI. BEN E FACTION, gift; favor. E LATE', flushed with success. IN HER ENT, natural. PER FECTION, excellence. VIG'ILS, watchfulness. CON SO LA'TION, comfort. MOCK' ER Y, derision; ridicule. FAC UL TIES, powers of the mind. UN BRĪB′ ED, not influenced by gifts. CA PAC' I TIE$, abilities CHOICE EXTRACTS. I. SWIFTNESS OF TIME. IDLER. LET him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him who proposes his own happiness, reflect, that while he forms his purpose, the day rolls on, and "the night cometh when no man can work." II. THE SHIP OF STATE. LONGFELLOW. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! III. THE TRUE HERO. HORACE BUSHNELL. The true hero is the great, wise man of duty,-he whose soul is armed by truth and supported by the smile of God,he who meets life's perils with a cautious but tranquil spirit, gathers strength by facing its storms, and dies, if he is called to die, as a Christian victor at the post of duty. And, if we must have heroes, and wars wherein to make them, there is none so brilliant as a war with wrong,—no hero so fit to to be sung as he who hath gained the bloodless victory of truth and mercy. IV. HEART ESSENTIAL TO GENIUS. We are not always equal to our fate, W. G. SIMMS. Nor true to our conditions. Doubt and fear With expectation, sinks beneath the time. The masters have their weakness. “I would climb," V. EDUCATION. ADDISON. I consider a human soul without education, like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. VI. THE VANITY OF WEALTH. DR. JOHNSON. No more thus brooding o'er yon heap, Can gold remove the mortal hour'? VII. CONSOLATION OF THE GOSPEL. A. ALEXANDER. OH, PRECIOUS GOSPEL! Will any merciless hand endeavor to tear away from our hearts, this last, this sweetest consolation'? Would you darken the only avenue through which one ray of hope can enter'? Would you tear from the aged and infirm poor the only prop on which their souls can repose in peace'? Would you deprive the dying of their only source of consolation'? Would you rob the world of its richest treasure'? Would you let loose the flood-gates of every vice, and bring back upon the earth the horrors of superstition, or the atrocities of atheism'? Then endeavor to subvert the gospel'; throw around you the firebrands of infidelity'; laugh at religion, and make a mockery of futurity'; but be assured that for all these things, God will bring you into judgment`. VIII. THE LIGHT OF IIOPE. O. W. B. PEABODY. 1. Oh, who that has gazed, in the stillness of even, Has seen not afar, in the bosom of heaven, |