ve calls and incentives to, Charitable services. The Sunday
school is a sphere in which her fireside virtues prepare her to
instruct. Teaching in general accords beautifully with the inspirations
of home. Every female should be an intellectual and moral guardian to
some portion of the young around her. In bestowing of her substance, and
especially of her personal attentions, on the sick and the poor, she
will find all she has done of good at home an invaluable prompter and
aid. For the sake, therefore, of others, as a social and responsible
being, let the flame she would support on the public altar be kindled
from the vestal fire of the domestic one.

Again, what purity would it infuse into her Friendships, did the young
maiden love first and serve best her own kindred. Let her deep
affections be developed by fireside fidelity, and how may she expend, of
these heart-gathered riches, on the friends she is making of her own
sex. What a pledge has she given too of constancy in every new relation
she may form.

Piety at home is friendly to that Quietness which is the "work of
righteousness, and its effect" also. She is the true gentlewoman, who
nurtures most faithfully in herself the calm virtues of the domestic
walk. Heaven is a tranquil abode; let the soul be attuned for its
harmonies by the quiet measures of fireside melody.

I close by saying, that in the family we may best cultivate a Christian
Spirituality. There may self-communion be enjoyed. There too can we
indulge in the perusal of those writings, which invigorate our faith,
and give a firmer tone to our religious sentiments and our moral
principles and habits. Be frugal of your moments, and each day you will
redeem the hour for this duty, which God and the future demand. Commune
habitually with that Being, whose countenance beams brightly on our
dwellings. It is morning; trust not yourself to the trials and
temptations before you, without commending yourself to your Immortal
Guardian. It is evening; enter the sanctuary of the Holiest,

"And take the thought of this calm vesper time,
With its low murmuring sounds and silvery light,
On through the dark days fading from their prime,
As a sweet dew to keep your soul from blight."

To all your literary acquisitions, and to every accomplishment, as a
relative and a friend, add piety at home. That shall be an ornament of
grace to thy neck. If God prosper your domestic ties, piety will give
fres