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"They’ll come again when south winds blow."

SATURDAY, NOV. 9th 1867.

Home Thoughts.

In our passage through this world we sought wisdom by a stern monitor,—Experience. Pain, and sorrow and suffering, take each their part in giving to us the golden lesson; and but for their powerful influence the end of our pilgrimage would often be dark and cheerless, although the path itself might have been lighted up by the false glaze of excitement and pleasure. By their rude discipline our minds are prepared for the mild and soothing balm and consolation of religion, and rendered softer and better in our intercourse with our fellow-man. They tame the wayward heart of the thoughtless youth and turn his pliable mind to the truer and more enduring pleasure of home with all its endearing ties of parental love and brotherly affection; and they tone down the stranger passions of maturer years and guide the mind in that strait and oft-neglected way that alone leads to true and perfect happiness. "Sweet are the uses of Adversity," wrote the poet; and in that brief