or German family will subsist comfortably on what is wasted in many of our homes, and would fare sumptuously where American families consider themselves stinted, if not starved. This art of living is better understood by some than by others, and is the true secret of many an individual success. Encourage honesty, because it is the better principle. If it is inculcated as the best policy, the tempter invariably debates the policy just when and where it is most alluring, and the risk of evil consequences apparently smallest; he is an artful debater, and too often prevails, to the sacrifice of honesty, family, friendship, and the future. Where the river flows broad and calm, with its shallow shores, there we find a solitude unbroken save by the gun of the sportsman, or the lonely cry of the loon; but where the fall and rapid vex its current, there gather the busy throng of workers, with the hum of industry, changing its waters to a perennial stream of wealth and prosperity. I have walked through the busy streets of a strange city, and, unacquainted with its commerce or sources of industry, have wondered how and where its swarming people gained their livelihood. The appearance of their homes and children denoted comfort and thrift, but the noon-day bustle of its streets, or the noisy clatter of its looms and hammers, failed to impress me with an adequate sense of the sources of subsistence for so great a multitude. warehouses and docks; when I see But when I them piled high with bundles and bales, packages and cases, all gathered from these various laboratories; when I see steamers, ships, and barges loaded with merchandise, and the laboring engine drawing its long train of burdened cars; when I consider that without manufacturing industry and enterprise, all this commercial activity would cease, and stagnation brood over all our ports, then I get an adequate notion of the magnitude of their interests and sources of wealth. Thus is our attention more engaged with the operations of commerce, because of its greater apparent activity, although the quiet and unassuming labors of the artisan and the mechanician, which we so readily overlook, are all that give it life. We believe that these agencies will ultimately achieve their perfect work, each with their respective functions weaving the web of life in all its varied patterns, with its peculiar thread, until there shall finally be accomplished the emancipation of the oppressed, the relief of the distressed, the ennobling of man, and the glory of God. TWENTY-SECUND TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL H: Association, Lose Hat on Monday Evening, 21, 1872. The members of the Association, with their laces and invited as assembled at half-past six o'clock in the large all The Germania Band enlivened the early part of the evening, and the tervals, with the performance of choice selections of music. The Temple Quartette Club sang very acceptably a number of odes, and led the audience in the following, written by Epes Sargent, Esq., for the Festival in 1848. God bless our native land! Of every clime! From want and crime! Oh! if to earth is given "Tis when the kindling sign Of Charity divine Glows on the true heart's shrine,- ODE. Then, Lord, our fathers' Lord, We of ourselves are weak, All that is good in Art God speed the Right! The President, ALBERT J. WRIGHT, gave an address of welcome, seasoned with much wit and wisdom, and the Rev. GEORGE W. BLAGDEN, D.D., invoked the Divine blessing upon the institution, and prayed for its success in every good and holy enterprise. The address, by HENRY W. WILSON, Esq., occupied nearly an hour in its delivery, and received the marked attention and spontaneous approval of the audience. A collation in the lower (Bumstead) Hall, followed the services above, and a Social Gathering of the families of members and their friends, at which dancing was introduced, was held in the large hall. The duties and the pleasures of the occasion were brought to a close at about eleven o'clock. |