Man, although he is lord of this lower world, cannot exist in comfort without the softening, sweetening, subduing influence of woman. She administers to his happiness, soothes his sorrow, assuages his resentment. By her tender care she alleviates his sickness, and seems like a ministering angel at the bed of death. Is it possible that he should not prize her, that he should not seek her society, that after the vexatious pursuits of business or the weariness of study her winning ways, cheerful smiles, and balmy voice, should fail to fall upon his vexed and burning spirit like the soft dews of heaven upon the drooping plant? "The very first of human life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Man must love woman. Necessity is laid upon him. She must affect his judgment, his principles, as well as his fortune; and if she did but lend all her energies to the cause of truth, purity, and goodness, she would soon rejoice in the conviction that her influence was as salutary as it is extensive. But the conventional forms of society must be broken through when they are opposed to equity, and vice must be discountenanced in her gayest colours as well as when dressed in rags. The titled rake must be made to feel himself as much an outcast from the society of the amiable and the lovely as the poor degraded victims of his passion, who are left to the mercy of a friendless world. SCRIPTURE STUDIES. No. 1.-FAITH. FAITH is the sole means of salvation (John iii. 18, 36; Acts xvi. 31; Rom. iii. 22, 25, 26, 30; x. 9; 1 Pet. i. 9), exclusive of any works of ours (Rom. iii. 28; iv. 5, 6; xi. 6; Gal. ii. 16, 21; Ephes. ii. 8, 9); for eternal life cannot be earned by us (Rom. iii. 20; ix. 31, 32; Gal. iii. 10, 11), but is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, Rom. iii. 24; v. 17, 18; vi. 23. By faith we are justified (Acts xiii. 39; Rom. v. 1; Gal. iii. 24), and have access into the grace of God (Rom. v. 2), whose righteousness is upon all those that believe, Rom. iii. 22; Phil. iii. 9. By faith we pass from death unto life (John v. 24); for he that believeth is in possession of eternal life (John iii. 15, 16; vi. 47; 1 John v. 13), and shall never perish (John x. 28), being born of God (1 John v. 1; Gal. iii. 26), and kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, 1 Pet. i. 5. Christ dwells in our hearts by faith (Eph. iii, 17; Gal. ii. 20); we are therefore filled with joy ad peace in believing, Rom. xv. 13; 1 Peter i. 8, 9. Faith purifies the heart (Acts xv. 9; 1 John ii. 3), overcomes the world (1 John v. 4, 5), makes Christ precious to us (1 Peter ii. 7), quenches the fiery darts of Satan (Eph. vi. 16), and works by love, (Gal. v. 6), which is the fulfilling of the law, Rom. xiii. 10. Those who believe shall not abide in darkness (John xii. 46); they walk not after the flesh but after the spirit (Rom. viii. 1); they are holy people (1 Peter ii. 9), zealous of good works (Eph. ii. 10; Titus ii. 14); they feel that God is their father (Rom. viii. 15, 16; Gal. iv. 6); they are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, Rom. viii. 17. This faith is the gift of God, Heb. xii. 2; Matt. xvi. 17; 1 Cor. xii. 3, 9; Gal. v. 22; Luke xvii. 5. RUHAMAH. SCOLDING. In a paper addressed to mothers, in our last number, reference is made to a defect in the management of children (and we might add of servants) which cannot fail to be productive of very pernicious consequences, and yet if we are not very much mistaken it is one which prevails to a lamentable extent. We allude to the habit of perpetual fault-finding, or, as children and servants call it, scolding, without adopting any effectual measures to prevent the recurrence of the evils complained of or to ensure future obedience. Many parents, it is to be feared, are too thoughtless to adopt any thing like a settled plan of family government, and they insensibly fall into the practice of scolding whenever they are inconvenienced, without at all considering its effect in alienating the affections of their children and hardening them in disobedience; while others may possibly be found to adopt this method deliberately, under the mistaken notion that there is no better way to deal with faults which do not call for severe measures, little imagining that they are thus preparing days of sorrow for themselves and in effect training their children to iniquity and ruin. The following graphic sketch, from a transatlantic pen, places this subject in a very clear and convincing light, and will we are assured be found fraught with interest and instruction to every mother who is duly concerned for the permanent welfare of her children or who has any adequate sense of her own responsibility ; 'A mother sees that her little daughter is careless and untidy in regard to her clothes and books. One day, after Mary has returned from school, her mother finds her bonnet thrown on the table in the entry, one glove in it perhaps and the other on the floor, while her books are scattered on the table or windowseats. 66 6 'Mary, how often must I tell you that I will not have your things thrown about so? Just look!-bonnet, gloves, and books all in disorder! It is of no sort of use to try and keep the house in order if this is the way you are going to act. I have spoken to you a great many times about it, and you pay no manner of attention to me.' The mother goes on in a similar strain for fifteen minutes, delivering a lecture on the necessity of neatness, all of which Mary sets down to the account of excited temper: it is called scolding and produces no other effect than to exasperate. In the mean time the mother puts away the things or perhaps tells the child to do so. Soon after she has occasion to go to one of Mary's drawers. 66 6 'Well, I declare!-was there ever such a sight? I do believe our Mary is the most careless girl in the world. Mary, come here and just look at your drawer.' Then she tosses over the heaps of miscellaneous articles in the drawer, naming each thing she comes to with some exclamation of surprise or horror. 'See, here, that nice handkerchief thrown in so, without being folded, and those gloves which you have had only a week-that skein of silk is so tangled that it is good for nothing. I wonder what state your clothes would be in if I should leave them for a month!' "This lasts all the time the drawer is being arranged, and Mary is irritated without being amended. The drawer is kept in order for a few days and then returns to its original state of confusion. Boys, do you suppose I am going to have such a noise as this when I have company? Be still directly.' The talking, laughing, and disputing ceases for a few moments. The mother resumes her conversation with her guests. Presently one boy touches the other with the point of a pin and bursts into a laugh. A squabble ensues. Boys, what does this mean? I have spoken to you once already. I see I shall have to send you out.' 66 The boys pay little attention to this threat: she may to be sure send them out, but she may not-and the noise continues. "Now in these two cases it is evident that the mother has gained nothing-no habit of neatness or of quietness has been formed. But this is not all. She has lost. Her children in time become so much accustomed to her reproofs that they produce no effect even for the moment, and their ineffectual repetition excites only contempt. 666 What has mother been says a boy to his brother. bringing mud into the house. scolding at you for?' O, something about She is always finding something to fret about. I should not have minded only she kept such a talking that I could not read that story.' "It may be set down as a certain rule that in such cases words lose their value just in proportion as they are multiplied. I have seen many instances in which the mind of a child has been so diluted and weakened by the stream of words which followed that all the good effect was lost. Not only so, but the child is |