example. Trials springing from Physical Constitution.
Acute Feelings. Sentiment of Burns. Trials from Imagination. An
affecting incident. Want of Interesting Objects. Defencelessness
in Public. Sufferings through Affections. Instance of true love.
Trials of Domestic Life. Bereavement. Mrs. Sigourney, on a lost
Daughter. Supports should be equal to Trials. Need of Mental
Culture. Moral Developement. Friendship. Piety the great Solace.

It was remarked by an observing and wise statesman, recently deceased,
that "most women are either formed in the school, or tried by the test,
of adversity." In this class stood the devout Hannah of old. She was
reproached and persecuted by her haughty rival, she was the subject of
remonstrance with her husband, and when she went to the temple of God,
to seek peace in her troubles, because she spake not aloud, but only her
lips moved, she was rudely charged with the vice of intemperance. To
this allegation she replied, "I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have
drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before
the Lord." These words remind us of the trials of woman; and they point
us, at the same time, to her only, and effectual, Solace in trouble.

Human life contains much to try the spirits of all. There are many
afflictions, which man must share alike with woman. But, superadded to
these, are sources and occasions of sorrow peculiar to her sex. There
are none, who do not sometimes descend the vale of tears. The cup of
bitterness is placed in the hands of all. But woman is constrained to
drink it sometimes to the very dregs.

In dilating on the Trials of woman, I commence with naming, first, those
which spring from her Physical Constitution.

To man Providence has assigned severe bodily tasks, but he has given him
likewise a vigorous frame. It is the lot of woman, notwithstanding her
infirmities, to sustain more physical sufferings than come usually upon
him. Her nervous organization is more delicate, and her sensibility to
pain must, therefore, be greater. We might cite the scenes of the sick
chamber, and hours, in which she needs a martyr's fortitude. But more
than this, in those sufferings incident to her sex, and almost
universally experienced, she has trials of her firmness, energy, and
patience, from which man is constitutionally exempt. How many secret
tears are wiped from her cheek; what untold anguish does she sometimes
endure. And none t