For where trust is not reciprocal, the love that trusted

withereth.

Hide not your grief nor your gladness; be open one with the

other;

Let bitterness be strange unto your tongues, but sympathy a dweller in your hearts;

Imparting halveth the evils, while it doubleth the pleasures of life,

But sorrows breed and thicken in the gloomy bosom of Re

serve.

YOUNG wife, be not froward, nor forget that modesty becometh thee:

If it be discarded now, who will not hold it feigned before? But be not as a timid girl,-there is honor due to thine estate: A matron's modesty is dignified; she blusheth not, neither is she bold.

Be kind to the friends of thine husband, for the love they have to him:

And gently bear with his infirmities; hast thou no need of his forbearance ?

Be not always in each other's company; it is often good to be alone;

And if there be too much sameness, ye cannot but grow weary of each other;

Ye have each a soul to be nourished, and a mind to be taught in wisdom,

Therefore, as accountable for time, help one another to inprove it.

If ye feel love to decline, track out quickly the secret cause; Let it not rankle for a day, but confess and bewail it to

gether:

Speedily seek to be reconciled, for love is the life of marriage;

And be ye co-partners in triumph, conquering the peevishness of self.

LET no one have thy confidence, O wife, saving thine hus

band:

Have not a friend more intimate, O husband, than thy wife. In the joy of a well-ordered home, be warned that this is not your rest;

For the substance to come may be forgotten in the present beauty of the shadow.

If ye are blessed with children ye have a fearful pleasure, A deeper care and a higher joy, and the range of your existence is widened:

If God in wisdom refuse them, thank him for an unknown mercy:

For how can ye tell if they might be a blessing or a curse? Yet ye may pray, like Hannah, simply dependent on his will:

Resignation sweeteneth the cup, but impatience dasheth it with vinegar.

Now this is the sum of the matter:-if ye will be happy in marriage,

Confide, love, and be patient: be faithful, firm, and holy.

OF EDUCATION.

A BABE in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love:

A resting place for innocence on earth; a link between angels

and men:

Yet is it a talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest;

A delight, but redolent of care; honey-sweet, but lacking not the bitter.

For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding,

And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of

infancy :

Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in

the soil,

The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to

come;

Even so mayst thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings of evil,

For disposition is builded up by the fashioning of first impressions:

Wherefore, though the voice of Instruction waiteth for the ear of reason,

Yet with its mother's milk the young child drinketh Educa

tion.

Patience is the first great lesson; he may learn it at the breast; And the habit of obedience and trust may be grafted on his mind in the cradle:

Hold the little hands in prayer, teach the weak knees their kneeling;

Let him see thee speaking to thy God; he will not forget it afterward:

When old and grey, will he feelingly remember a mother's tender piety,

And the touching recollection of her prayers shall arrest the strong man in his sin.

SELECT not to nurse thy darling one that may taint his in

nocence,

For example is a constant monitor, and good seed will die among the tares.

The arts of a strange servant have spoiled a gentle disposi

tion:

Mother, let him learn of thy lips, and be nourished at thy

breast.

Character is mainly moulded by the cast of the minds that surround it:

Let then the playmates of thy little one be not other than thy judgment shall approve;

For a child is in a new world, and learneth somewhat every

moment,

His eye is quick to observe, his memory storeth in secret,
His ear is greedy of knowledge, and his mind is plastic as

soft wax.

Beware then that he heareth what is good, that he feedeth not on evil maxims,

For the seeds of first instructions are dropped into the deepest furrows.

That which immemorial use hath sanctioned, seemeth to be right and true;

Therefore, let him never have to recollect the time when

good things were strangers to his thought.

Strive not to centre in thyself, fond mother, all his love; Nay, do not thou so selfishly, but enlarge his heart for others; Use him to sympathy betimes, that he learn to be sad with the afflicted;

And check not a child in his merriment,-should not his morning be sunny?

Give him not all his desire, so shalt thou strengthen him in

hope;

Neither stop with indulgence the fountain of his tears, so shall he fear thy firmness.

Above all things graft on him subjection, yea in the veriest trifle ;

Courtesy to all, reverence to some, and to thee unanswering obedience:

READ thou first, and well approve, the books thou givest to thy child;

But remember the weakness of his thought, and that wisdom for him must be diluted;

In the honied waters of infant tales, let him taste the strong

wine of truth:

Pathetic stories soften the heart; but legends of terror breed midnight misery;

Fairy fictions cram the mind with folly, and knowledge of evil

tempteth to like evil :

Be not loath to curb imagination, nor be fearful that truths will depress it;

And for evil, he will learn it soon enough; be not thou the devil's envoy.

Induce not precocity of intellect, for so shouldst thou nourish

vanity;

Neither can a plant, forced in the hot-bed, stand against the frozen breath of winter.

The mind is made wealthy by ideas, but the multitude of words is a clogging weight:

Therefore be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to the measure of capacity.

Analogy is milk for babes, but abstract truths are strong meat; Precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him:

In vain shalt thou preach of industry and prudence, till he learn of the bee and the ant;

Dimly will he think of his soul, till the acorn and the chrysalis have taught him.

He will fear God in thunder, and worship his loveliness in

flowers;

And parables shall charm his heart, while doctrines seem dead mystery;

Faith shall he learn of the husbandman casting good corn into the soil;

And if thou train him to trust thee, he will not withhold his reliance from the Lord.

Fearest thou the dark, poor child? I would not have thee left to thy terrors;

Darkness is the semblance of evil, and nature regardeth it with dread.

Yet know thy father's God is with thee still, to guard thee: It is a simple lesson of dependence, let thy tost mind anchor upon Him.