The fact that goodness will beget its likeness in all minds that experience and perceive its effects, is taught plainly in the Scriptures. "We love God _because he first loved us_."--"The _goodness_ of God leadeth thee to repentance."--"He to whom _much is forgiven_, the same _loveth much_." The song of saints in heaven is grounded on the _personal benefits_ they have received from Christ. Christians are exhorted by the _mercies_ of _Christ_ to live holy and godly lives. And the Psalmist says, that they that _know_ the name of the Lord, will put their _trust_ in him. The truth of these principles has been practically demonstrated by those who have been humanely and charitably conversant with the suffering poor. It has not been the _benefaction_, that has bound them to the hearts of the distressed, but the spirit of _mild_, _heavenly_, _sympathetic_, _unassuming_, and _unaffected condescension_, with which they have _personally_ and _perseveringly_ ministered to their wants. Not the _value_ of the gift, but the _manner_ and _spirit_ of it, has converted the recipient into gratitude. All experience proves this. "But beside the degree of purity in which this principle may exist among the most destitute of our species, it is also of importance to remark the degree of strength, in which it actually exists among the most depraved of our species. And, on this subject, do we think that the venerable HOWARD has bequeathed to us a most striking and valuable observation. You know the history of this man's enterprises, how his doings, and his observations, were among the veriest outcasts of humanity,--how he descended into prison houses, and there made himself familiar with all that could most revolt or terrify, in the exhibition of our fallen nature; how, for this purpose, he made the tour of Europe; but instead of walking in the footsteps of other travellers, he toiled his painful and persevering way through these receptacles of worthlessness;--and sound experimentalist as he was, did he treasure up the phenomena of our nature, throughout all the stages of misfortune, or depravity. We may well conceive the scenes of moral desolation that would often meet his eye; and that, as he looked to the hard and dauntless, and defying aspect of criminality before him, he would sicken in despair of ever finding one remnant of a purer and better principle, by which he might lay hold of these unhappy men, and convert them into the willing and the consenting agents of their own amelioration. And yet such a principle he found, and found it, he tells us, after years of intercourse, as the fruit of his greater experience, and his longer observation; and gives, as the result of it, that convicts, and that, among the most desperate of them all, are not ungovernable, and that there is a way of managing even them, and that the way is, without relaxing in one iota, from the steadiness of a calm and resolute discipline, to treat them with tenderness, and