108 THE EVENING PRIMROSE. 



extending alike to every weary traveller the sha- 

 dow so welcome. 



This habit of placing ourselves in the situation 

 of another, will also be found to prevail wherever 

 a strong individual attachment subsists. Warm 

 affection will seek the happiness of its object, and 

 that is only to be done by studying the disposition 

 of the person beloved, with a steady self-devotion 

 — a co-partnership in every joy and sorrow — a 

 moulding of our own will and habits to those of the 

 cherished object. Here, again, is sympathy; and 

 to this manifestation of it I can bear witness, and 

 remember how my every taste and inclination were 

 watched, that they might be gratified; how light 

 was every sacrifice accounted, that a fond father 

 could make to promote the welfare of an afflicted 

 child. The sacredness of the tie, the immensity 

 of the obligation, the total removal of him who con- 

 ferred it out of the reach of all grateful return, and 

 and the cheering brightness that seems to hang 

 over the remote retrospection of those by-gone 

 years — all tend to melt my spirit into sad, yet 

 soothing emotion, when I behold the flower on 

 which is engraven the record of indulged childhood 

 — of sympathy more perfect than I can ever again 

 look for upon earth. 



There is yet another demonstration of this be- 

 nevolence, which we are warranted to expect among 

 all who bear the name of Christ ; and this is ex 



