ho come constantly,
whether there are any gifts or not. But there is one rule from which
we never will depart. Those who have been seen aiding or abetting
any riot, any attack on butchers, bakers, wheat-mows, mills, or
millers, we will not relieve; but with the quiet, contented,
hard-working man, I will share my last morsel of bread. I shall only
add, though it has pleased God to send us this visitation as a
punishment, yet we may convert this short trial into a lasting
blessing, if we all turn over a new leaf. Prosperity has made most
of us careless. The thoughtless profusion of some of the rich could
only be exceeded by the idleness and bad management of some of the
poor. Let us now at last adopt that good old maxim, _every one mend
one_. And may God add his blessing."

The people now cheerfully departed with their rice, resolving, as
many of them as could get milk, to put one of Mrs. White's receipts
in practice, and an excellent supper they had.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

I promised, in the _Cure for Melancholy_, to give some account of
the manner in which Mrs. Jones set up her school. She did not much
fear being able to raise the money; but money is of little use,
unless some persons of sense and piety can be found to direct these
institutions. Not that I would discourage those who set them up,
even in the most ordinary manner, and from mere views of worldly
policy. It is something gained to rescue children from idling away
their Sabbaths in the fields or the streets. It is no small thing to
keep them from those to which a day of leisure tempts the idle and
the ignorant. It is something for them to be taught to read; it is
much to be taught to read the Bible, and much, indeed, to be carried
regularly to church. But, all this is not enough. To bring these
institutions to answer their highest end, can only be effected by
God's blessing on the best directed means, the choice of able
teachers, and a diligent attention in some pious gentry to visit and
inspect the schools.

ON RECOMMENDATIONS.

Mrs. Jones had one talent that eminently qualified her to do good,
namely, judgment; this, even in the gay part of her life, had kept
her from many mistakes; but though she had sometimes been deceived
herself, she was very careful not to deceive others, by recommending
people to fill any office for which they were unfit, either through
selfishness or false kindness. She used to say, there is always
some one appropriat