Blessed are they who thus mourn for sin, for they shall be comforted. Blessed is the sorrow that worketh repentance! Blessed are they who so bear the cross that they shall inherit the crown!


BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT. Prov. 23:23.

XI.
THE TWO COUNTRIES.

When walking through the streets of London, have you not sometimes met a party of strangers, and felt sure that they belonged to another land, because they spoke not the English tongue? Had you listened to them, you would not have understood them; they conversed in the language of their own country.

My young friend, what language do you speak? If I knew but that, I should soon guess to what country you belong.