reply: "I cannot make it otherwise. I write it! according to the thoughts I feel; when I think, upon God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen ; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve him with a cheerful spirit." There are few spots on earth that are not sometimes warm with sunshine, few winds that do not purify the air, no storms that are not followed by a calin, and no situations in which there are not mercies mingled with our afflictions. Feltham says, "I know we read of Christ's weeping, not of his laughter, yet we see he graceth a feast with his first miracle, and that a feast of joy." The man who has grown up through the kindness of others, as we all have, and who will not, in his turn, try to aid and bless others, is like a tree, to use the figure of Pope, which will not bear fruit itself, nor suffer young plants to flourish beneath its shade. If there are waves, remember that they will soon sleep; if there are winters, that summers are sure to follow; if there are clouds, that we can look through them often, and that the sun is always shining

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beyond them. In the midst of troublous times, James Howel sent this beautiful consolation to his friends. "You know better than I, that all events, good or bad, come from the all-disposing high Deity of heaven; if good, he produceth them, if bad, he permits them. He is the pilot that sits at the stern and steers the great vessel of the world; and we must not presume to direct him in his course, for he understands the use of the compass better than we. He commands also the winds and the weather, and after a storm he never fails to send us a calm, and to recompense ill times with better, if we can live to see them." It is a great misfortune, especially to a young lady, to have a temper sour, morose, or melancholy. It is particularly necessary that women "acquire command of temper, because much of the effects of their powers of reasoning and of their wit depends upon the gentleness and good humour with which they conduct themselves. A woman who should attempt to thunder with her tongue, would not find her eloquence increase her domestic happiness. We do not wish that women should implicitely yield their

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better judgment to their friends; but let them support the cause of reason with all the grace of female gentleness. A man in a furious passion is terrible to his enemies, a woman in a passion is disgusting to her friends; she loses all the respect due to her sex, and she has not masculine strength and courage to enforce any other kind of respect. The happiness and influence of women, in every relation, so much depends on their temper, that it ought to be most carefully cultivated. We should not suffer girls to imagine that they balance ill-humour by some good quality or accomplishment; because, in fact, there are none which can supply the want of temper in the female sex." And there are some who, though cheerfulin their daily life, yet are unhappy in their religion. To such I would recommend the advice of the Earl of Strafford to his son, just before his death: "And in all your duties and devotions towards God, rather perform them joyfully than pensively, for God loves a cheerful giver." Let your heart rejoice in all the pleasant things with which he hath surrounded you. Enjoy all the friends with whom he hath blessed you, but

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when you come into his presence praise him for all these delights, and while you mourn your unworthiness, dishonour him not by your faithlessness and your complainings of his providence.

CHAPTER X.

HEALTH AT SCHOOL.

Conveniences of our Day. All under Law. Abuses among

Good Men. Dr Payson's Letter.

Good Advice.

The

Two Extremes. John Howard's Testimony. His experience in full. Too much Care. The Conscientious Selfdestroyer. Recovery, -a Curious Case. Hints not Rules. Sleep, how much needed. Sir William Jones. A curious Will. Importance of Habits. Mother's Cupboard. The Young Lady's Self-control. Exercise indispensable. Dr Franklin's Experience. Mind corresponds with the Body. Cheerfulness essential to health.

So much is written and said on the subject of health at this day,-so many lectures are given, so many prescriptions are made, and so much complaint is made for the want of it, that we should be inexcusable not to say something about it. We have so many conveniences, stoves, furnaces, furs, and shawls,