ng rid
of them, one by one, and supplying their place by good habits. By
pursuing this course you will not only do much for your own happiness,
but also for that of your children, if God should bless you with a
family. Children, you know, are often striking likenesses of their
parents, and in their minds and habits they likewise often resemble
them. You should strive, then, to be good--not from mere self-love and
that you may get to heaven, but because your duty to others requires
it.

Earl Granville, when laying the foundation-stone of the Alexandria
Orphanage, in England, thus expressed himself in reference to the
great value of children: "Few will deny that a child is 'an
inestimable loan,' as it has been called, or refuse to acknowledge,
with one of our greatest poets, that the world would be a somewhat
melancholy one if there were no children to gladden it." Children,
more than any other earthly thing, equalize the conditions of
society--to rich and poor they bring an interest, a pleasure, and an
elevation which nothing else that is earthly does.

Now, young people, before they think of engaging themselves, should
clearly know each other's peculiar views of religion; because if they
differ seriously on this point there is danger of it interfering with
that full confidence which is so essential to happiness.

CHAPTER IV.

LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

The attraction of the sexes for each other, though based upon the dual
principle of generation which pervades the living world and which has
its analogies in the attractive forces of matter, yet pervades the
whole being.

LOVE IS NOT MERELY

the instinctive desire of physical union, which has for its object the
continuation of the species--it belongs to the mind as well as to the
body. It warms, invigorates, and elevates every sentiment, every
feeling; and in its highest, purest, most diffusive form unites us to
God and all creatures in Him.

ALL LOVE IS

essentially the same, but modified according to its objects and by the
character of the one who loves. The love of children for their
parents, of parents for offspring, brotherly and sisterly love, the
love of friendship, of charity, and the fervor of religious love, are
modifications of the same sentiment--the attraction that draws us to
our kindred, our kind; that binds together all races and