TO-DAY is yesterday returned; returned
Full-powered to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn,
And reinstate us on the rock of peace.
Let it not share its predecessors' fate;
Nor, like its elder sisters, die a fool.

YOUNG.

PRIDE.

PRIDE goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. PROVERBS, xvi, 18.

Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. I. PETER, v, 5.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. PROVERBS, Vii, 8.

WHAT if his very virtues

Had pampered his swol'n heart, and made him proud?
And what if pride had duped him into guilt?

COLERIDGE.

PRIDE, self-adoring pride, was primal cause
Of all sin past, all pain, all woe to come.

HATE, unbelief, and blasphemy of God,
Envy and slander, malice and revenge,
And murder and deceit, and every birth
Of damned sort, were progeny of pride.

POLLOK.

POLLOK.

PRIDE blasted Eden, and the world has bowed
Beneath her sceptre, which to break in dust,
The God incarnate every meekness wore.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY.

SMALL things make base men proud. SHAKSPEARE.

THOUGH various foes against the truth combine,
Pride, above all, opposes her design;
Pride, of a growth superior to the rest,
The subtlest serpent, with the loftiest crest,
Swells at the thought, and, kindling into rage,
Would hiss the cherub Mercy from the stage.

COWPER

PRIDE was not made for men; a conscious sense
Of guilt and folly, and their consequence,
Destroys the claim, and to beholders tells,
Here nothing but the shape of manhood dwells.

WALLER.

SPITE of all the fools that pride has made,

'Tis not on man a useless burden laid;
Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced;
It hurts not in itself, but as 't is placed;

When right, its view knows none but virtue's bound;
When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.

STILLINGFLEET.

PRISON-PRISONERS.

THE Lord looseth the prisoners. PSALM Cx1, 6.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thỷ power, preserve thou those that are appointed to die. PSALM Ixxix, 11.

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place. PSALM CXviii, 5.

WE see no more in thy pure skies,
How soft, O God! the sunset dies:
How every coloured hill and wood
Seems melting in the golden flood:
Yet, by the precious memories won
From bright hours, now for ever gone,
Father, o'er all Thy works we know
Thou still art shedding beauty's glow;
Still touching every cloud and tree
With glory, eloquent of Thee;

Still feeding all Thy flowers with light,

Though man hath barred it from our sight.

We know Thou reignest, the unchanging One, All-just!

And bless Thee still, with free and boundless trust!

THOUGH not a human voice he hears,

And not a human form appears

His solitude to share,

He is not all alone- the eye

Of Him who hears the prisoner's sigh

Is even on him there.

MRS. HEMANS.

J. L. CHESTER.

THE captive welcomes even death's relief:
What then, to him, the frowning prison-walls,
The clanking chain, the tyrant's 'vengeful spite?
From the freed spirit every shackle falls,-
Earth's gloom is lost, in Heaven's glorious light.
H. H. WELD.

AND this place our fore-fathers made for man!
This is the process of our love and wisdom
To each poor brother who offends against us
Most innocent, perhaps

Is this the only cure!

and what if guilty? Merciful God!

Each pore and natural outlet shrivelled up
By ignorance and parching poverty,

His energies roll back upon his heart,

And stagnate and corrupt, till, changed to poison,
They break on him like a loathsome plague-spot!

COLERIDGE.

PROPHECY-PROPHETS.

KROWING this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in the old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. I. PETER, i, 20, 21.

He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, since the world began. Luke, i, 70.

THE word of prophecy, those truths divine,

Which make that Heaven, if thou desire it, thine-
(Awful alternative! believed, beloved,

Thy glory--and thy shame if unimproved),

Are never long vouchsafed, if pushed aside

With cold disgust, or philosophic pride.

COWPER

THE gift

Of Prophecy was lost; O, proof beyond

A doubt, that every oracle of old

To the same centre tended, and that all
The promises to God's selected race

Through every age, received the stamp of truth
In the appearance of the blessed Seed.

SAMUEL HAYES.

THE world's a prophecy of worlds to come.

YOUNG.

YES! what was earth to him, whose spirit passed
Time's utmost bounds?-on whose unshrinking sight
Ten thousand shapes of burning glory cast
Their full resplendence? Majesty and might
Were in his dreams;-for him the veil of light
Shrouding Heaven's inmost sanctuary and throne,
The curtain of the unutterably bright,

Was raised!to him, in fearful splendour shown, Ancient of days! e'en Thou mad'st Thy dread presence. MRS. HEMANS.

known.