s. Crew is a real Christian,
has excellent sense, and had a good education from my mother. She
has also had a little sort of preparatory training for the business;
for, when the poor children come to the parsonage for broth on a
Saturday evening, she is used to appoint them all to come at the
same time; and, after she has filled their pitchers, she ranges them
round her in the garden, and examines them in their catechism. She
is just and fair in dealing out the broth and beef, not making my
favor to the parents depend on the skill of their children; but her
own old caps and ribands, and cast-off clothes, are bestowed as
little rewards on the best scholars. So that, taking the time she
spends in working for them, and the things she gives them, there is
many a lady who does not exceed Mrs. Crew in acts of charity. This
I mention to confirm your notion, that it is not necessary to be
rich in order to do good; a religious upper servant has great
opportunities of this sort, if the master is disposed to encourage
her."

My readers, I trust, need not be informed, that this is that very
Mrs. Betty Crew who assisted Mrs. Jones in teaching poor women to
cut out linen and dress cheap dishes, as related in the _Cure for
Melancholy_. Mrs. Jones, in the following week, got together as many
of the mothers as she could, and spoke to them as follows:

MRS. JONES'S EXHORTATION.

"My good women, on Sunday next I propose to open a school for the
instruction of your children. Those among you who know what it is to
be able to read your Bible, will, I doubt not, rejoice that the same
blessing is held out to your children. You who are _not_ able
yourselves to read what your Saviour has done and suffered for you,
ought to be doubly anxious that your children should reap a blessing
which you have lost. Would not that mother be thought an unnatural
monster who would stand by and snatch out of her child's mouth the
bread which a kind friend had just put into it? But such a mother
would be merciful, compared with her who should rob her children of
the opportunity of learning to read the word of God when it is held
out to them. Remember, that if you slight the present offer, or if,
after having sent your children a few times you should afterward
keep them at home under vain pretenses, you will have to answer for
it at the day of judgment. Let not your poor children, _then_, have
cause to say, 'My fond mother was my worst enemy. I might have be