drunken also, that he may bring him to shame.' Hab. ii. 15.

"After hearing these passages," said Mr. Harvey," and others which I have before repeated to you, you will not think that the Bible encourages any one in drinking, or in giving his neighbour any thing to drink that could possibly lead him to sin, or injure his body."

Mrs. Harvey said she knew this was the principle of the Bible; but asked what it was that one of the writers of the New Testament said about every thing which God has given being good, if it be properly received?

"The passage which I suppose you allude to," said Mr. Harvey," is in the first epistle to Timothy iv. 4, where the apostle says, 'every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving.' But he is there treating of common food. Besides this, spirituous liquors cannot be said to be a creature of God' in the same sense that animal food is. For it is by perverting the use

of what God has given for food, that spirits are manufactured. God has given grain and fruit to be used in the natural way; but men put it to a different purpose, and a bad one. But, besides all this, the next verse gives the reason why 'nothing is to be refused;' namely, it is 'sanctified by the word of God and prayer.' Now, are ardent spirits sanctified in this way? Does the word of God allow it? Does any one pray for God's blessing when he takes them? Are men who drink ardent spirits men who pray much?"

All the family were convinced that it is not only sinful to be intemperate, and that it puts the soul in awful danger, but that it is a sin wilfully to do any thing that may lead another into this sin.

chapter of the first and with solemn

closed the evening.

They then read the third epistle of John together, conversation and prayer

CHAPTER X.

The Neptune and the Franklin.

THE next day was the commencement of the August holidays, and Mr. Harvey was preparing to take his family to spend the month.

in the country. He told the boys that he should like to have one more walk with them in the town, and immediately after breakfast on Monday they set out to gether.

The day being warm, Mr. Harvey said they would go along the wharfs, where they might enjoy a fresher air. As they strolled along, the boys admired the shipping very much. Every vessel looked so neat and strong, that they said they would like to spend their holidays in a voyage. Mr. Harvey spoke to them of the great ingenuity displayed in the building of a vessel for the purpose of carrying goods and people across the ocean. "And it is very important they should be well built, when we think how many thousand lives are constantly depending, under Providence, on the strength of a ves sel, and how many millions of dollars worth of property are carried in them.”

Mr. Harvey then took his sons on boar one of the largest ships, and showed them that the only way in which a vessel can be governed is by moving a rudder, and by changing the position of the sails by a few ropes. Yet with these helps men cross the sea, thousands

of miles, out of the sight of land for months together, and exposed to the most tremendous

storms.

He was talking in this way as they were leaving the ship, when they heard a great noise, as if a number of persons were quarrelling and fighting. They found that the dis turbance was in a little dram-shop with the sign of an anchor over the door, where a company of sailors had gone in to drink together. They had become intoxicated, and were now swearing, and shouting, and singing, as if they did not know what they were about. Mr. Harvey asked a man who was working on the wharf if they all belonged to the same ship. "Yes," said he, "they are the crew of the Neptune;" which was the name of the fine packet-ship they had just left.

“Why are they not at work," asked Mr. Harvey, "instead of getting drunk, at this time of the day?"

“Oh,” said the man, " they are just going