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Value Men, 14*7MluN. Your house, for example, is not so preciousThe general scriptural rule, " Be imitators as its human inmates. It is right to keep theof GoQ as dear children," readily admits of house in order, and right that children andapplication to this particular case. God's es- servants should work for that end; but youtimate of man is marked distinctly in creation ought jealously io watch the comparative esandmore fully manifested in the mission and timate which you insensibly and habUuallyministry and sacrifice of Christ. . . . The entertain of a weU kept house, and of thoseobject whom he oame to seek and save was ^bo keep it. If you tenderly care for wallsworthless and wicked. But man in his lost and ornaments, careless of immortal creaturesestate was siill precious in the eye of God. So made in the image of God, who dwell underhigh in heaven was the estimate of even ruined your roof, you are contending with the Alman,that, when no other price conld buy the mighty, and will be crushed in the conflict. . .captives, the Son of God gave himself, the just The God of the families of the whole earthtor the unjust.ia dishonored and displeased when things areA jewel has dropped from the wearer's neck ^et over the heads of persons. This .^undaintoa deep and filthy sewer. The owner look^ mental error in the estimate vitiates aU youring from aloft loathes the fetid object and calculations, and disappoints all your prospectsloves it ioo;_so loves it, in spite of its loath- „f happiness. Devote your chief care to thesomeness, that, rather than lose it, he plunges household, and the house will be better caredinto the pool, wades among its filth, and feels |-q„forthe lost treasure. If he find it, he goes -^ . . . „ ,, . , , . , ,. ,. ... n , i, . 1 . . Your farm is, in God's sight, and should behome rejoicing ; and, when ihe jewel has been . ^ , - , . , . , f, . , , . , . . ,, , in yours, of less value than the farmers. Scotburnisheaagain, he reioices more than ever to , _ . ,. ,, . , . . ,.-,,. land, as an agricultural country, owns no suseeit on his own bosom receiving bright . , ° , . i^, ,, -,., ^, . ^, , , perior, perhaps no equal in the world. But aglances from the sun and throwing them back ,,. , /,. \, • -, . ,