A NEW YORK exchange has the following, which seems to indicate that the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and that godliness is profitable as a business guide. It is just fifty years since a large dry goods firm was in active business in this city, when one day the head of the firm said to his partners, “We must restrict our operations. I find that the demands upon my time are such that I have not the requisite leisure for my religious duties, and I cannot go on in this way.” The other members of the firm consented, and the reduction was made. Just two years from that time there came a great financial storm which engulfed nearly all the business houses of the city. But the firm in question safely rode out the storm, and found that what they had done out of their religious convictions was really a matter of the soundest policy, though they were not aware of it at the time.—Presbyterian Observer.