THERE are two institutions which contribute largely to make home happy, to wit, The Sabbath and family worship. The Bible is sure to carry them into every house where it is itself admitted, and they, in turn, sustain and increase its influence. It would occupy too much time to show at large, how effectually the Scriptures contribute to domestic happiness, through the mediums of these institutions. Let it simply be observed, as regards the first of them, that the Sabbath supplies the only season which the great mass of men are allowed to spend at home. Stern necessity drives them abroad during the six working days. If it were not for the Sabbath, the laboring classes would have, in the meaning which we attach to the word, no HOMES. Their natural affections would be blunted, and a diminished interest in each other's well-being, would ensue, in consequence of the infrequency and hastiness of their family intercourse. The several members of the same household would grow up in strange and freezing apathy toward each other. The children would seldom see the father, except for a few hurried minutes, and then it would be when he is chafing beneath the labor-yoke, a time not at all calculated to encourage the reciprocities of paternal and filial love. These evils are, in a measure, counteracted by the hallowed influence of well-kept Sabbaths. This season is to the laborer and the artisan, a sacred enclosure, shut in by infinite goodness, from the strifes and tumults of life; like that beautiful little isle, the Jardin, high up among the glaciers of Mont Blanc, presenting to the eye, a tablet of unchanging verdure and perennial flowers, embossomed in a sea of everlasting ice. Nor is it these weekly re-unions of the sons of toil, which furnish the only illustration of the salutary effect of the Sabbath upon the homes of a people. No family can habitually "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," without being drawn more closely to each other's hearts, and having the cords strengthened which bind them to their homes. No less salutary is family worship, as a means of promoting domestic happiness, and adding to the attractions of home. It is something to bring the members of a family together twice a day. "For in proportion as the subjects of mutual obligations live apart, they will cease to care for each other." But in the case we are contemplating, they are not merely convened morning and evening to look each other in the face, or to hold a familiar talk; they assemble to engage in one of the most tender and impressive of all services. To listen, as a family, to the counsels of inspired wisdom; to sing in unison their hymns of praise, and bow down together, before the throne of grace, and follow the hallowed accents of a father's voice while he presents, as the revered priest of his household, their common confessions, supplications, thanksgivings, and intercessions. Is it possible to conceive of a service better adapted than this to repress all jealousies and envies, to drive away the gloomy vapors of moroseness, to restore serenity to every clouded brow, to reburnish the chain of affection, and diffuse an air of cheerfulness through the house? If there is a transient interruption of conjugal cordiality, can the coolness survive the family-prayer? If there are heart-burnings among the children, will they not dissolve like snow in the sun, as the petition goes up, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us?" If misfortune has come down upon them, will they not cling the more closely to each other, as they pour their common sorrows into the ear of their common Father? If they are enriched with unlooked-for blessings, will they not feel them to be the more precious as they present their united thank-offering to the Giver of all good? But I must not detain you with this animating theme. Let me rather invite you to prove for yourselves the efficacy of family worship as a help to domestic happiness. Let it be your first care to rear an altar to God, if your house is without one—to repair your altar if it has fallen into decay. And by this and every other means which God has placed within your reach, strive to prepare yourselves and those who are dearest to you, for a better world. Give the BIBLE the place in your families to which it is entitled, and then, through the unsearchable riches of Christ, many a household among you, may hereafter realize that most blessed consummation, and appear a whole family in Heaven!—Copied for Review from Home Memories.