d it attended with the same result.

And now, in conclusion, as a parent who has always taken your excellent
Magazine, and who through it would speak to parents, let me ask, Ought
we not to be more careful as to the reading of our children--more
careful that the couplets they learn, and the little ballads they hear,
and the verses they commit to memory, are such as they ought to be?
Lessons from such sources will leave a deep and lasting impression long
after we are silent in the grave! The verses which the writer was taught
by a pious mother, in early days, are all vividly remembered, and
probably will be while life shall last. And if every parent would seek
to make _verses_ the vehicle of instruction to the young (for children
delight in _poetry_ earlier than in prose), they might easily implant
the seeds of virtue and piety that would never be lost, but that in due
season would spring up and bear fruit an hundred-fold to eternal life.

A PARENT.

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Original.

THE MOTHERS OF THE BIBLE.

THE MOTHERS OF ISRAEL AT HOREB.

We beg those readers of this Magazine who have had the patience to
follow us thus far in our study, now to open their Bibles with an
earnest invocation of the aid of that Spirit who indited the sacred
pages, and so far from being satisfied with the meager thoughts which we
are able to furnish, we entreat that they will bend diligently to the
work of ascertaining the real interest which we and all the mothers of
earth have in the scenes which transpired at the foot of Horeb's holy
mount. To the instructions there uttered, the mighty ones of every
age,--the founders of empires, statesmen, law-givers, philanthropists,
patriots, and wise men, have sought for their noblest conceptions, and
their most beneficent regulations, and it would be impossible to
estimate the influence of those instructions upon all the after history
of the world. But if the Almighty there revealed himself as the God of
kingdoms, the all-wise and infinitely good Ruler of men in a national
capacity, not less did He make himself known as the God of the family,
and his will there made known regulating the mutual relations of parents
and children, has been at once the foundation and bulwark of all that
has been excellent or trustworthy in family government from that day to
this.

It is impossible, in the brief space allotted to us, that we s