for that pittance which her hands aforetime earned! No-this rage for money-getting ought not to carry us on so far as it does. Economize in your households, deny yourselves in dress, and in those ornamental superfluities which are too often coveted where personal decoration is abjured: lavish not those expensive bindings on your books, banish from your tables that heterogenous bijouterie; dispense with the costly materials that add no harmony to your piano or harp, and solicit, if you will, every friend you have to save something by the like plan of self-denial. But oh, invade not the province of a poor girl, whose daily bread depends on the sale of what you seek to imitate: who works for the world, and has, if you draw its custom from her, only that world-that cold, unfeeling, profligate world—to turn to. You may serve the general dealer by purchasing the raw materials; but in working them up for your bazaar, you take bread from the mouth of one who has nothing to do with your first purchase.

In denouncing the money-getting mania, we do not mean to discourage any in the good work of collecting, and contributing to the many excellent institutions. We only protest against their coveting this miserable per-centage on female vanity and pride; and we believe that a large proportion of the pious men most deeply interested in their success, and responsible in their pecuniary transactions, would cheer us on in this work of cutting off a very equivocal source of emolument. Many are ashamed openly to ask a worldly person for the contribution that they gladly draw from her by tempting her frivolous taste with a needless toy; not that a private barter may not be very innocently carried on among friends, where some

trifling article may acquire value, as a memento of the individual who wrought it.

We greatly like open mendicancy, on the part of those who really have nothing to give but their prayers. We were ourselves saluted the other day, in company, as "The big beggar-woman," and accused of starting a begging-box, in opposition to O'Connell's. We admitted the fact; and gladly take this opportunity of thanking our generous contributors, beseeching them to abound more and more. Our box is always open; and nothing can be more delightful than the rattle of a piece of gold, or the rustle of a bank-note within its recesses; unless it be the sweet assurance that they who thus lend to the Lord will never be the poorer for the loan: and that the little quiet stream of Christian bounty still kept flowing, has brought refreshment to many a spot, and comfort to many a heart, and encouragement to many a hand. To beg we are not ashamed, nor unwilling to work; but nobody will find us at a bazaar, in the character either of seller or purchaser.

C. E.

ANXIETY AND FORETHOUGHT.

ANXIETY is a compound of restless desire, and undefined apprehension. A moment's reflection must convince us of its profitless and detrimental character; for it frustrates, rather than promotes the objects which are permitted to call it into action. It is a vortex which engulphs, not a tide which bears the vessel to the shore. It often impairs the health of the body, and always wastes the energies of the mind. Sometimes it is the offspring of disease, and is dispersed by returning health but when this apology cannot be admitted, it is peculiarly inconsistent in the Christian to indulge a habit of mind so characteristic of want of faith; professing, as be does, to confide in Almighty power for a blessing upon the calm discharge of daily duty. The wicked indeed, 66 are like the troubled sea which cannot rest;" to them there is no peace; but the Christian should, at all times, prayerfully invite that Spirit, who, for our encouragement and consolation has assumed the form of a Dove, ready to convey to every watchful Christian the olive branch of peace.

Anxiety is no part or consequence of forethought; but is inconsistent with it. For the duty of exercising forethought we have scriptural authority, "The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished."

Forethought preserves the connectedness of the

links of reasoning, which anxiety would interrupt, and it conducts to secure and satisfactory resolutions, which do not invite or require an anxious repetition of the steps that lead to the conclusion. It is equally distant from reckless unconcern, and restless apprehension; it preserves the buoyancy of hope and lightens the burden of care. Constitutional tendency is sometimes alleged as an excuse for the indulgence of anxious thoughts; but a resolute endeavour to overcome it would often prove the excuse to be weak or unfounded, and might at least establish a habit which would materially lessen its degree.

A short consideration of some of the most common causes of anxiety, will assist us in determining the methods by which it may be best overcome.

A disposition to attempt undertakings too numerous or too formidable for our opportunities and powers is a frequent source of this morbid habit of mind, and a correct acquaintance with our peculiar powers and capacities may be required to counteract it but there can be no doubt that a methodical arrangement of duties, at fixed periods, particularly at the commencement of every day, will materially promote calmness and facility, in the discharge of duties, however numerous; and will prevent the different objects from crowding on the mind together, and overwhelming it with a sense of multiplicity and confusion.

By this means we might also conquer the prevalent but injurious habit of dwelling on an individual thought, longer than is necessary for the accomplishment of any practical purpose.

It would be profitable, though humbling, to examine

ourselves regarding the objects upon which our anxiety is often thrown away: sometimes on unavoidable disappointments; sometimes on unattainable desires. It is painful to consider by how slight an incident the undisciplined mind may be driven from its anchorage. "It is not things, but thoughts, that disturb and hurt us.'

But anxiety sometimes springs from the more discreditable source of worldly-mindedness: the ambition of display; the desire of distinction ;-the pride of life.

Even Henry Martyn experienced the danger of such feelings, at the examination in the senatehouse; but the valuable injunction of scripture, "Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not," being brought home to his mind, calmed its agitation, and he became divested of that extreme anxiety about success, which, by harassing his spirit, must have impeded the free exercise of its powers.'

A more habitual comparison of the things of time with those of eternity; of the pleasures, which disappoint even their votaries, with the high hopes and destiny of the child of God, would surely do much, under the blessing of heaven, to rescue us from the trammels of worldly care.

Habits of indolence leave some minds peculiarly open to the admission of care, and to the confused perplexity of unconnected and unprofitable thoughts; and we may learn from this the necessity of being always provided with some object to occupy the mind, in any moment of leisure. Anxiety is a vulture, tempted to the prey by the inert and motionless limb, but repelled by the animated and active form.