It is in the period of youth and adolescence that the mind may be most hopefully cultivated and the moral character intelligently formed. No greater mistake can be made by a young and vigorous mind than to treat the faculty of reason and the instinct of moral judgment as parts of the being which may be left to their own devices. The young man bestows some thought on his muscular system—he trains his eye, cultivates his ear, and takes credit for prudence when he strives to develop the vigor and to foster the healthy growth of his body. Is it wise—nay, is it not rather the worst of folly and shortsightedness—to neglect the ordinary development of those higher powers which man possesses in a more exalted degree than any of the lower animals? Taking care for the body while the mind is neglected is the worst of failings—the most calamitous and the least excusable. GONE! By E. G. CHARLESWORTH. Alas! and have I lost thy voice, Lost the sweet face that in my youth Shone from my breast on things to be— Hope-making, changing hope to truth, Thy face, sweet love, That madest beautiful the plainest thing Below, above? No; like the priest in times of old, Who drew the temple’s sacred veil, Thou art gone into an inner fold; And now, thy face turned heaven’s way, A paler face, and yet not pale, Looks for the sunset in the west; Thy form appears with outspread wings, I hear thee from thine altar say, With angel-breath o’er former things, _How beautiful is rest!_ —_London Sunday Magazine._ SOCIAL WRECKAGE. By ELLICE HOPKINS.