KEEP A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. 55 95 brations of an Eolian harp." She needs however to be heard before her merits can be appreciated. Jenny Lind is as much distinguished for her benevolence and abundant charities as for her power to transport by her tide of song. She has had the pleasure of placing in independent circumstances her loved parents, who now reside in romantic Switzerland. At great expense she is educating one of her Swedish sisters in the city of Paris. She has been known to bestow on the poor cottager of England $25 as a single present. Her charities, while in that country, amounted to $300,000. She is founding a charitable institution in Stockholm at an expense of $350,000. The object of her visit to this country, is to secure the means of founding a system of free schools in Sweden. The fruit of her first concert in New York accruing to herself was $10,000, all of which she gave to benevolent purposes. "The visit of such a lady, who regards her high artistic powers as a gift from heaven for the amelioration of affliction and distress, whose every thought and deed is philanthropy, will, it is presumed, prove a blessing to America in many respects." Melrose, Mass. KEEP A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. MANY persons do what is wrong when they are alone and think no one sees them; but God and their own consciences are ever present and will not fail to witness against them. How wretched are they! They cannot feel easy. The sound of the wind, the shutting of a door, a word accidentally dropped in conversation, reminds them of their sin, and produces dread and apprehension in their minds. He who has a troubled conscience can never be happy. It is when "Our heart condemns us not" that we have "confidence towards God." Strive ever to have "a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men." |