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 disposition. And let him begin, by being just and liberal to those he employs; paying good ample wages—remembering that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." You may see men, every day, even well intentioned men, who talk much about "this wicked world" and grieve over the sad state of mankind, who unconsciously are doing much to keep up this very evil state of things, by their hardness and injustice to their own workmen. Let such think more of the toiling wife and little mouths which those workmen have at home to feed,—and let them make their hearts glad by good and liberal wages, and perhaps an occasional present to the faithful and industrious. Thus will they be just before they are generous. In fact, the truest way to be benevolent, is simply to be just and upright—to do to others in every case, and in all matters, as we would have them to do to us if we were in their place and they in ours. This principle alone, if carried fully out, would reform the world.

This, then, is to "seek judgment" and to "relieve the oppressed." Then, having been first just, and thoughtful of their neighbour's rights,—soon, generosity, or considerateness for their neighbour's distresses and wants, would follow of itself: for the door of heavenly influences once opened into the heart by "doing justly,"—the "loving mercy" would come quietly in unobserved, and the man would feel himself disposed to be kind and tender-hearted, ere he was aware. So that when an occasional opportunity was presented to "judge the fatherless and plead for the widow," he would soon find his words uttered, and his purse opened, too, in their behalf.

Another way, in which the rich, and those in middle