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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 66, 3 July 1851, Page 4

Throughout the animal kingdom there is a tendency to disagreement, this is evidently destructive of much enjoyment. Those to whom reason has been given should live in harmony and love. It is most important that our minds he filled with eon-.l thuiielrs, so that when alone lln-y may he to us jnyl'nl, mid pril'Unble companions.

Cardinal AVoi.sk y The favourite of Henry' Vlll., was (lie most absolute nml wealthy minister of state this kingdom ever had. lie appeared in his time i« govern JJnrope a« will as Kngland, lie "as the greatest instance which many uges ha;l produced, of llic variety, ar.d inconsUi'.uy of human tilings, bolh in his rise and fall. He held a gre.it number of nlliccs in the government and his annual income was so extensive that it exceeded the revenues of the ciown. Hut from thi< great height ot power and splendour lie was suddenly |..cr ipiuied, being air. sted for high treason, and deprived of all his einplovments. This sad reverse so atVe. ted his niinil that il soon pioduced a severe illness which out a period to his days. A short seas.m before he hit the world, the review of his life, a sense of the misapplication ot his time and talents drew from him this sorrowful declaration;— "Hud I been as diligent to s-ivemy Coil as I have been to please my khi« lie would not have left mc now in my grey hairs " An nlleciing admonition to tho>c who have the power nod W-niis ol doing more than ordinary good in the world and do it no( ; which smn« to have been the melancholy case and ri-ileutiuii of (his great man.

Tun Use ov Laws. The industry of a country depends greatly upon (lie goodness of its laws, and the faithful execution of thtm. If laws permitted a violation of property, all men would soon become thieves instead of labourers ; and as thieving produces nothing there would soon he nothing left to steal, and all would starve. Who would labour on the soil through a whole summer if he knew that he was likely to have his harvest seized in the autumn by a tyrant. Hence we see the importance of a good constitution of government. Hut suppose that every man is allowed to gain all that he can, he must also be allowed to use it as he will. This is evident, because no man will be industrious to gain property unless he is allowed to use it for the promotion of his own happiness in such a way as he likes best. Hence we sec that every industrious man is bound to uphold good laws, for it is only lubbers who can gain anything by the destruction of those laws.

Always Happy—An Italian bishop struggled through great ditlieuliy without repining, and incl with much opposition in the discharge of his functions without In-lf.iyinjj the least impatience. One of his intimate friends, who hisjlily admired the virtues which he thought it impossible to imitate, one day nskid the bishop if he could communicate the secret of b.ing "ulwavs happy"—" Yes," replied the old man, •• 1 can teach you my secret with great facility ; it consists in no'hing more than in making right use of my c\cs."— His friend hedged i.im to explain himself.— ■Most willinslv," relumed the bishop. "In whatever state I am. 1 lirst look up to heaven and remember my principal business here is to get there; I then look down to the earth, hikl call to mind how small a space I shall occupy in it when I come to be interred; I then look abroad into the world, and observe what multitudes there art* who .ire in nil respects more unhappy than myself; and thus I Icaiu where true happiness i< placed—where all our cares must end ; and what little muse I have 10 repine or to complain."— Mis> l''turdriiicr. A Man Saved fuom Uohbekv iiv a >tiian«k Don.—C. De.ich, Captain of the Isibella, schooner, was walking finin Alni<Jstnne to Hoclnster, on Sunday week, between 9 and 10 o'clock, and having got half a mile beyond the Uridgewood Turnpikega(e, two men rushed out of the wood, and one of them gave him a severe blow on the back of his head, which caused him to stngger some distance and fall. At that moment he heard a dog growl and liurk, and baring lain on (In- ground completely stunned, he believed for some minutes, on tec .vering he saw n large black and while dog, apparently of the Newlbundlnntl breed, attacking the robbers, who ran away. The dog which he had never seen before, then came up to him and crouched at his feel, i,ficr«nrds lodowing him eloselv all the way to Rochester. ll.v--ing slept iii bis house, been fed, and stopped about two hours after Dnich arose, in the morning, the dog disappeared, and has noi been seen by him fciuec.—A'ciir Herald. Life is given to be employed in active ex citioo, and if not so u-ed the frame becomes weak, and feeble. Labour is not destructive of strength, but is necessary to its preservation. We need strive daily to get knowledge j but still more must we pray lor wisdom to use. it rightly. Human knowledge tends to produce pride, if not based on the " fear of the Lord."