insignificance. At this picture we can only gaze. Words wholly fail when
we would comment on it. Of the agonies it reveals we cannot speak. There
are lessons to be learned from it, and upon them we can ponder.

The value which the Lord our God sets upon truth is here displayed. He
will have no swerving from the straight path of perfect fidelity to all
engagements and covenants. Severe and awful appears his character as
thus presented to us, and yet it is upon this very attribute that all
our hopes rely. "He is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man
that he should repent." If he thus defends those who love him not, how
safe and happy may his children rest.

The days in which Rizpah lived were dark and gloomy days. The words of
Samuel to Agag may stand as their memorial, "As thy sword hath made
women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women." Let us
be thankful that we see no such direful scenes, and let us act worthy of
our higher lot. Let us remember also that there is a destruction of life
more terrible even than that which Rizpah witnessed--the destruction of
the soul. If the mother's love within us prompts us to half the care of
the spiritual life of our children, which she bestowed on the decaying
forms of her loved ones, He who rewards faithfulness will not suffer us
to labor in vain.

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Each day is a new life; regard it therefore, as an epitome of the world.
Frugality is a fair fortune, and industry a good estate. Small faults
indulged, are little thieves to let in greater.

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FEMALE EDUCATION--INTELLECTUAL TRAINING.

BY REV. S. W. FISHER.

Let us now enter upon the second part of the field of education, the
training of the intellect. It is obvious that we have in this, a much
higher subject to deal with than that on which we have just dwelt. The
physical form in a few years develops itself, and soon reaches its
utmost limits of growth. It is then an instrument whose powers we seek
to maintain but cannot increase. As time advances, indeed, those powers
gradually yield to the influence of disease or age, until the senses
begin to neglect their office, the brain declines in vigor, while the
tongue, the eye, the hand, forget their accustomed work in the
imbecility wrought by the approach of death. But no such limitation is
manifest to us in the growth and future life of the intellect. De