advance in life.

There is generally a delicacy of feeling, of thought, and of action,
corresponding with the delicacy of her physical organism. God hath made
her gentle by nature, and kind. She likes and longs to be loved and to
love, must have some object on which she can center her affections. She
admires flowers, and everything which is beautiful and delicate like
herself. She has a finer imagination and more curiosity than men. She is
more conscientious and truthful, and though a fallen, sinful creature,
and by nature like us all, a hater of God, yet there is not so decided
an opposition to religious things in her heart, in her loving nature;
there is not, indeed, a predisposition towards a God of love, but a
peculiar adaptation which assimilates more easily to religious things
when her heart is touched by the Holy Spirit. The beauty, the harmony,
the adaptation of the Gospel to the wants of our fallen nature, are more
apparent to her, more quickly perceived. This may also, perhaps, be
traced to another peculiarity which I must not forget to mention--her
disposition to lean on others. Unlike man, she loves to be
dependent--place her in danger and she naturally flies to her brother,
her father, or her husband. I am aware that to all these things there
are exceptions--there are unwomanly women as there are effeminate men,
but the fewness of the exceptions only proves the general truth. England
had her masculine Elizabeth, but she had only one.

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CHILDREN AND THEIR TRAINING.

What wonderful provision has God made for the happiness, safety, and
well-being of infants. He has implanted in the human breast a natural
love of offspring, and has provided for each child parents, who should
be of mature age, and who should have been so trained by their parents,
that by combined wisdom, sagacity and experience, it may be duly watched
over and cared for, and so trained as to answer life's great end, viz.,
"To glorify God and enjoy him forever."

Then how wisely is the body framed, and most wonderfully adapted to
answer all the purposes of life, and especially during the period of
infancy and childhood, when the body must be more or less exposed to
accidents; while therefore it is destitute of experience, and cannot
take care of itself, its bones are all soft and yielding, and more
particularly of the skull which incloses and protects the brain, and
those of the limbs