for a bit. But now the Lord has brought her to see different, and she
wants me to tell you what a snare she has found this learning to be.
She wants me to tell you from her that she's found it out in her own
experience as there's no happiness out of Christ; as head knowledge can
never make us happy without heart knowledge of Jesus.

"It's all very well wishing to shine in the world and be thought clever,
but that's just pleasing self, and can never give us real peace. She's
tried it, and she says it's `vanity of vanities.' It's led her away
from her duty, and made her neglect helping her dear father and mother
in many ways where she might have been useful, just because her head and
her heart were full of her books.

"Now, perhaps some of you may be thinking, while I've been talking,
`Well, this don't concern _us_ much; we ain't in danger of going astray
after too much learning.' Don't you be too sure of that. There's traps
of the same kind being laid before you by the old enemy, though they
mayn't be got up so fine as them by which he catches clever young
ladies. Ah, perhaps he'll be whispering to some of you as it'll be a
grand thing to get up a peg or two higher by learning all sorts of
things with queer and long names to 'em. Won't you just make folks open
their eyes when you can rattle off a lot about this science and that
science? But what good will it do you? How much will you remember of
it ten years hence? What'll be the use of it, when you've got homes of
your own, if you've your heads cram full of hard names, but don't know
how to mend your clothes or make a pudding? Depend upon it, there's
need to listen to Miss Clara's message when she bids me tell you from
her as there's no real happiness to be got in making an idol of learning
or anything else, and that there's no happiness out of Christ; and that
the chief thing is just to do one's duty, by grace, in `the state of
life to which it has pleased God to call us;' and then, if he means us
to do something out of the way, he'll chalk out a line for us so broad
and plain that we shan't be able to mistake it.

"So now I've given you the message; but there's something else for you
besides.--Here, missus, just hand me that little brown paper parcel."--
So saying, he opened the packet which his wife gave him, and taking out
the photographs, handed one to each of the girls, saying, "It's a
keepsake to each of you from Miss Clara."

As the little gifts w