as all are required to do, under the golden rule.

56. Having satisfied himself as to how much he may justly retain for his own use and benefit and those dependent upon him, making reasonable allowance for losses from unforeseen causes, not forgetting that it is the duty of every one, having the power, to relieve suffering in all cases where the necessity is great, even if in doing so it is necessary to transcend the limits above prescribed, he is next to consider how properly to dispose of the remainder.

57. To find the poor and destitute it is never necessary to look far, for "the poor ye have always with you." Towards the most suffering and deserving of these our bounty should flow the most freely, remembering to give aid in all cases with judgment, and only after careful investigation, that none may suffer who are truly deserving.

There should be no thoughtless benevolence, none of that benevolence which gives to the laboring poor employment of a character which does not conduce in the highest degree to public or individual good. Those who are blessed with large means for the purpose may erect substantial, comfortable, moderate sized dwellings, in pleasant, healthy locations, giving to each dwelling suitable ground for a garden, and rent them at low rates to the poor, and provide, when their lives are closed, that the dwellings shall continue to be so rented, but only to the virtuous and deserving,

58. Externals have a great influence upon character and conduct. The dress we wear and the house we live in, if respectable in appearance, will produce a corresponding effect upon conduct.

In the one case, although poor, we still feel, especially if we have once seen better days, that we can associate with those who

are more fortunate, and our self-respect and ambition are preserved..

In the other case being constantly reminded, by our changed appearance, of our misfortunes, we shun society, disappointment and despondency are the consequence, and instead of renewed efforts to escape from our fallen condition, we give up in despair to a fate we imagine we can not avoid.

59. There is probably no wiser or better mode of aiding the deserving poor than that which contemplates the erection, for their use, of tenements, as suggested, which they can occupy at low rates. The great desideratum is to secure to every family a respectable and comfortable home; a home which can be enjoyed and cherished as such; a home where the right moral culture in infancy and childhood can be ensured, and manhood be developed in its greatest strength and beauty.

60. Such a provision for the poor will

conduce greatly to the improvement of man's social condition.

A comfortable and well looking home will stimulate its tenants to neatness and order. The garden will afford occupation for leisure hours, that would otherwise be spent in the company of the idle or dissolute. Its floral beauties will preach to the household the kindness of Providence, and help greatly to purify the moral atmosphere; respectability of character will follow, when, without such incentives, a contrary effect might result.

61. The erection of the tenements we advocate should not be entrusted to the honesty or integrity of executors. It is the duty of all to see, during their lives, that their charities are properly applied.

It is one of the saddest of sights to behold as we do, particularly in our larger cities, so many families without homeswithout any of the blessed comforts and associations and endearments of home,

and without a place even to lay their dead - in ground appropriated to their separate use. The potter's field which swallows up so large a portion of the population of our cities, and the wild and heathen-like extravagance to be seen in our Greenwoods and Mount Auburns, are alike a disgrace to the age and nation in which we live. They are another of the many proofs that we are still, with all our boasted intelligence, on the confines of barbarism.

62. Other methods of aiding the less fortunate and of doing good may be found, such as the erection of school-houses in pleasant and healthy locations, the formation of libraries and erection of buildings for their use, and the erection of houses for public worship; of asylums for the unfortunate; of hospitals and houses of reformation and refuge. All these are proper objects for charity, but beyond the purchase of the necessary land, and the erection of buildings of a permanent char