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in truth the eternal servant of the human race. The law was made to be broken, as well as to be kept, as an instrument for the advancement of man through experience. Perhaps no man ever lived a day without violating law; yet no violation of law can jar the harmony of the universe, for love is above all law. "The law was given that sin might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did even more abound."

We will delay here but a moment to remark—(for on so dry a matter we are fain to use all fair expedients so to sustain the curiosity of our reader that he may keep with us to the end, which shall explain all)—that the most flat and fruitless of all worlds imaginable were this world without those evils which men consider its especial curse. What has this whole race to do, but to supply its wants, and miti- gate its evils ? How hard the ministers, doctors, editors, politicians, and the rest, are laboring for that "good of the race," which, if once accomplished, would throw them all out of employment, and leave them waiting for the heavens to come down. We want much: but to want these wants were worse than all.—And if any man say that nothing would please him better than idleness, he may have it. Down by the equator he shall want for neither food nor clothes, eating the bread-fruit and rolling on the sand. Who covets this felicity?

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