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MOORE'S KTPRAL EFEW-YOMHH. 



i : ' 8 '~" '■ : " : -- '." ■■' 



"TWO YEARS OLD.* 



: . f.rrtly I-it ' 



■ 

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i I. Jin U of wintry gloom 



"A very lint* girl who often rod her bible 

 gave proof that she understood hci 

 obey its precepts. Onedayshc came 

 much pleased, to show her some fi 

 been given to ber. The mother said the friend 

 wa« very kind and bod given her a great many. — 

 'Yes,' said the child, ' very indeed; anil she gen 

 memorethai. ■■ ■ in *o:nc away. 



The mother i> 

 when she bbj w lo a girl who 



■ ■ 

 On being asked why ahi 

 replied, 'ISecan > I 



know that I wish to In khjd to her. nnd she will 

 not. perhaps, he rude mid unkind to me again. 



Basil exaarpte* ore worth Maturing "' tb« mind 



. ■■ -n repeated to children. It would DC 



. mother to bare at COmO 



of anecdote illustrative of various, mora] princi 



may tin- more forcibly impress them 



upon their plMtid louts. 



In connection with this subject, we would allude 

 to tbatof gencml benev.ikm. [n , 





up mi idol 





VYTV 



Plain Talks to American Women.--No. 6 



Oxa of thi' more prominent evils with which 



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the human I,, .ill 1 



'■:' I, ivln'ii III.- hill u>. jn»| toiler 



inn around tin- ll , churn- nil the loj loi [I R If, 



if io ii c punion. And 



this leads us to lay, that, In dot 0] in, DO child 



should ever be brought op alone. Ann tamed to 



ii m- i-i ■■> i ii.nrj. i if, ii will almost eerbunly 



H llllll llll -1'HmIiiIV-., ol ll- Illll ll lli-iilr,, 



: b '' oni . aeak ool from among the 



orphaned and drsiilulr, Home oil,,-] child I,, I 



brother or elslei to it, cducaie them together nnd 



alike, be in her indeed Io tin 1 motherless, uud 



(ion will lil.- io U I.- .' will blc 



;■ ill i roui own offspring. 



.-'' Hi hnc»< i- i I el a. Ii nm-iiiluil,. ilial no 



pains should In' ■] '.I Ii, ciuiliciitc it. ll is, in 



deed, Ohio! n temple of sin, 



i. .1 ii, ( . .-.iii,.-.- fuiu. The religion ol 



i . the ""!> oflbi iii-i levoi (br the ai 



oompll ii ml ol tbl n oi I Dal b I 



I i Imply Srll-loVC ■■ N\,, f,,r Iln- ii bidda- 

 ble, Si'll'lovi mil ii person 



■Alio in., no rc pod I- 1 i iolf, will : i 



that Of Others It n ul.,l,;„i.i self,- h.i h 



more iln. M othoi ■ The o nand 



I '>*■<■ Io Cm., I III.' L-.ilili'll villi', llllll deadly blows 



at the rout of thi* idolatry, uinl the carlloi llics.- 



i .in bi Impressed upon tin mind "i ■ till 



■■■■ ill l" Hi.- iij hue. of the prin- 



riplflfromlti Mini, h„. more delightful will be 



Iln- I - '-I ii- in. lulling-, iiiiil tin., more I'lhi'hi.il 



nil ' .""■. i ■-. <■ ' !■!'. i.'-'i .mil iNciilalciillnre. 



, and in various ways, may ho taught 



heart, how vastly important that an opposite prin- 

 ciplo be nouri.sln.il in those ln-h BOUll bom bi ex- 

 hereafter an influence upon society ! In nn 

 age when it would seem that the tears of woe which 

 God is bottling up would almost be enough to 

 erwhclm a nation of oppressors When ii... 

 Ogled sighs nnd groans that enter into the ears 

 of the Lord of Sabbaolh would form a fitting rc- 

 ■ru over ihe destruction of a world of w ieked- 

 i, how needful that the blessed angel of Charity 

 rtieomad into the heart ol childhood, and with 

 pitying, consoling influence, loach l..r ih Ihenei? 

 band Io pour the Halm of Uilcad upon Ihe 

 wounds of sorrow, anil lift humanity frum degra- 

 . lulu. ii ' Tench, then. Ihe little one, (hut the great 

 lesson of life is Im:.-— that to make others happy, 

 should be one great aim of its being— that the 

 "pure and uudefilcd religion" of Jesus inculcates 

 not only u sputlessness ..I' purity, but an active 



l..-n..|ol,nn -i . " Visit Hie In I In ll. - anil widows in 



alUiction!" " Lotc- mercy:" " fieUert tbl op- 



Ileal tire.nl io ll,,. hungry!" " Uring 

 . are Casl mil to thy house !" " Dlldo 



tbl li. ■■■■■ burdens!" " When thou scest the naked 



i l '" These ore somo of the di 



'■ mil the principles upon which thev 



rest should be taught to children. Encourage 

 them to do good us they have opportunity; not to 

 wait for occasions Io do great tilings, but Io relieve 

 littU sorrows— Io dry up single tears— to speak 

 kind words— to be ready to lend a helping hand 

 whenever needed — to divide I heir enjoyments with 



B pennies into the poor child's hat 



plucking flowers for Ibosc who have them not, 

 carrying comforts lo the sick— iu short, cvery- 



heie they may, to light up human heerAwitb 



io i aye ol happiness. 



Teach them especially to ,/■■„,, /?.-, , 

 sake of doing good lo etAsfV. It is nn easy thing 





i penny which 



ve when it Dai ii plenty lei 



■i foci the blessedness of nr}f.,ltmal. 



I self 



' into its soul through this channel, Would mu 



dethroned the idol of self, and nn acceptable 



tiding from its altar to the throne of 



FASHIONABLE WOMEN. 



> kills n 





o elnhlii ii iln- praotica of the law of kindness. 



"When Maui I Hi --. is n.i- in her fourth 



year, her little brother :.h m I. her in a. lit of nngcr. 



She iust«llll) tinned tin other iln ,-!, I ,,,,,1, 



mildly, 'their. I'lum:.' The uplilted hand was 



dropped, ami »\„ n ih. chiM u... ..-k.-.i n i„, i :i „^m 

 l,.-i I., do that, ahc copllcd, thai she heard papa 

 11 morning out of the Dibit ii pi iyi 



hal t Ii altar, n is implanted iu tin 



child's id in i i;. .1.1. ilL the principle of Ion 



;■■■ !■ ibli bi whole lifi a 



■ r V> ■ ■ 'Ii. Illlllleilie ol 



- I perhaps in couseiiuetice fail so 



ll " "' rhh i |u-i ii iijiou i In- l M .,u(- ol ..in- 



■ aildron a . m ironld othanrln do. We fail to 

 drink in ftfoll iraaghl from thj iri U 



■ b iniih into the world, all 



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"■ '" " ;l " hl1 " ' :r:: ' r ■ ■ ' ■ " " "j. Idem, i.ilhei 

 than practice that bl< •■ .1 toason ■ 

 »»u*bt ii- bj i . i,., ,n n ,, ,„,,.,, 



ty lino, when upon the ansa be ■. 



totmios, " l athi r.forgivc them, foi thej t. v not 



vbAtthoydo." Thoroisi m . • | 



I 



botTi debl o 



..'I., i di I By J ■'- '■ thei debts wo are 



equal with all mankind , bul lo ref 



■ i ,. i .!,-,. .-,. .,,- luperioi 



i in. mi high 



■lie 111--. IV llh li 



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great i 



i real injui - 



world, which he 



ual meaner After relating thi particulars to Sit 

 Kaau.Tr, he asked i| be did ool think ii would be 

 moWjrio rtsenl ) j -,, Bauiur, 'it 



i.,T...,„i it.hul itwould 

 b *^ wWa ' ' I K«nUomuido- 



clarvd had ...ch an inManUneons offect upon him, 

 ii and in tem- 



iu offset 



Bei as, Esq.. of Unien. requesting hiui u. ""I^ 

 ■a« a foot upon bia ground 



I ii i-t. 



" l; " I! 



he abalt be very welcome . hut if he pli 



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 thus heaping eoalaof fire upon his bead, he niched 



' n down into love and tenderness, and made 

 his cordial i. 



I little story is lold ol 

 earty learned the lesson 

 good." 



Obedionoe to fashion is a _ 

 the laws of woman's nature, ti greater injury to 

 her physical and menial constitution, than the 

 hardships of poverty and neglect. The slare- 



»' "' "l he i links will live ami grnw old, and sec 



two or three generations of her mistresses fade 

 .-I |. i IWBJ The wiislu-rvonian, with scarce a 

 r»i ol hope to cheer her in her toils, will live to 

 sec her fashionable sisters all die around her. The 

 i - heariv and strong, when her lady 

 baa to be nursed like n sick baby, 

 truth that fitsbion-pampered women are ulmost 

 worthless fur nil the good ends of human life.- 

 Thev li.u .■ hut little force of character; they hm 

 still less power of moral will, and <pni. as little 

 pin -,ii io] energy. They live for no great pn 



in In-' ilo-i iieromplisl woilln . ml 'II,, i 



urc only doll-forms in Ihe hands of 

 servants, to bo dressed aud fed to order. They 

 dress nobody; they feed nobodi ; liny instruct no- 

 I....U . ihev hless nohodv, nud save nohiidy. Thei 

 write no books; they set do rich oxompltB Of Tir 

 tin- ami iMimanlv lite ll thei leal children, se.r- 



thein hirlh. And when reared, wh-.t STSthOyf— 

 What do they ever amniiul to, btl IT( 

 Of the Old StOCk t Whoever heard ol a li.shu.mi. 

 hie woman's child exhibiting any virtue and jioivei 



of mind for which it b.-c; .- r K.a.lrli, 



biographies Of OUT gi-eat and good uien and wo 

 meu. Nut one of them bad a fashionable mother 

 They nearly ull spruug from strong-minded women, 

 who bad about as little to do with fashion as with 

 ■ 



moil seething" from whence the sil 

 and calHljafloat toward h 



t ted themselves 



demon thatn.i- 



arith wierd and 

 forms, haTe ■ . [] owq— whert 



peaks, that po.nt towards heaven, are crowned 

 inlight makes a gl 

 ■ 



gloomy and 

 grand. 



' s and snuny 

 (lopetwhorti 



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i-i of the 

 world, the murmuring of leafy boughs, and the 

 liquid music of hidden brooks 



And, 6nully — plain mnUfT->f-faet hillt, whose 

 chief merit lies in the fertility ol llieir soil and 



whose importance i> in propQT | 



bearing qualities, 



Nou, Ihe snli-enhcr is u farmer who depends lor 



1 -..---. hi rood and wearing apparel, dm., lite- 

 rally upon the '%weatofbisbrow,"oon»oquoDtlj bo 



can't get along with the a'jr,-;/t),/. alone, the ■ 

 /'//also is of some importance. Bul [ bi 

 letting them stand together us they did in the old 

 Spelling Hunk " utile ,t ilul.-i." 



Those hills rock-ribbed and 

 are not entirely roy favorites.— but Ihoso that are 

 of more recent date— that have had thou tharp 

 edges rounded off and their ribs covered with, not 

 exactly fiit, but some not-aiolued substoncca that 

 I .hi.' Hi In converted into fat. Then, as a gene- 

 ral thing, hills don't mud draining, llicy can be 

 worked sooner in the spring, and they contain 

 men land to the acre. But above all, they are 

 healthier, the air is more bracing, ih 

 breezes are cooler and more pure, and, where the 

 view is line, the mind expands and sooner looks 

 " From Harare up io Nature's Ood." 



ll I 1.-H-- not s.nd .niMhuw u-r worth the paper, 

 ink and hmo I havo used, I must i 

 liin-li with B somewhat lensittiy ijuoiation, which I 



c because "Sauksplaiik" 

 er's library. The words i 



THE HILLS. 





y fi ehne-s 



Tne Wirt- It is oston 

 ion moy live on a small i 

 ml nidu-irious wife. Sol 

 "- better appearanw on si 

 ■an others do on fifteen o 

 IH) .1... 



-Inn- I 





rho lias a hui.lv 



ii men in.- ami mike ■ 



or eight dollars a week. 



eighteen dollars. The 



part well, bin his i\i!e is g | ft>j 



tiring m as good a style as his neighbor, while 

 f*u\t is entirely her own. Uis neighbor has a 

 neat, capable and industrious wife, and that makes 

 the difference. His wife, on the other hand, is a 

 whirlpool, into which a great many silver cups 

 |]gbt he thrown, and the appearance of thewater 

 ouUl remain unchanged No Nicholas, thedirer, 





o talk lo her husband 



Taa attempt to gorern by loud speaking, stamp- 



: in uunecess- 



v amount of words, is vain. Subjection to 

 wholesome laws, properly administ 



a part of SB! 

 ledge acquired from books end 



in roL'anl lo lulls inv hot eV|i 



What I feel is mil a.limiaiioii merely, or venera- 

 tion, or a selfish aiiiulnnent ll is more than nny 

 01 all Of these, Itja /■"■., luidlatlnchmore signifi- 

 cance to the word than docs the youn- huh who 

 says,—" Ob ! I do fort boiled cabbage !" I confess 

 that I look down, figuratively and literally, upon 

 plains and valleys, und have a horror of swamps 

 and ravines. I'liuries .lo very well in the summer, 

 but if they arc destitute of trees the wind is apt to 

 have full sweep, aud I don't know what will take 

 the poetry out of one quicker than to ride over a 

 Western praii ie. t.n.inu a northeast wind on a "raw, 

 rheumatic day." When the thermometer gels be- 

 jro, your admiral ion of the scenery is apt to 

 go down with the mercury, and yon shrink back 

 yourcoal. like a turtle into its shell, and ap- 

 iate the sublime about ns much as does that 

 tcstudinous insect. Then, a level country that is 

 covered with woods is apt to be interspersed with 

 marshes, miasma and niusquilo-biveding swamps, 

 and ol though a distinguished ['resident of u Wes- 

 tern College once said to a class in Rhetoric, that 

 few scenes are as impn-^ive a.- m extensive forest, 

 I must substitute the word oppressive as the ex- 

 pression of my feelings. A monotonous waste of 

 "Bolls of diinkyplnc-liuiit 

 And gusty leagues of plain, 

 appears to me like Sdukspearb's definition of life, 

 " stale, lint, aud unprofitable." Valleys depend 

 their very existence on ihe hills that inclose tin 

 and I shall no! notice them. 



As I intend to say the h.-t things nboul hills that 

 occur to me, I will here remark that 

 past the inhabitants of hilly countries have been 

 uoted for a more ardent attachment to their b 

 than their lowland brethren. "The brave and 

 peaceful Swiss," of whom every school-boy has 

 beard, bare attained a world-wide celebrity, on 

 account of the tenacity with which they cling (o 

 the sides of their not very productive, but much- 

 loved hills. 



Quite a spirited engagement once took place in 

 the upper part of Greece, between the inhabitants 

 of that hilly peninsula and ft number of warlike 

 people, who. not liking their own flat country, were 

 out on a predatory excursion History has in- 

 formed us that the odds in favor of the Spartans 



were in the proportion of l. j i\ to ■.■.'.. ■■ Anl.l 



Scotia" too, not a very level land, we believe, has 

 1 ■;■ others than Ihe "monarch peasant " 

 who prayed that, 



■eaiileii iln hum hie a 





To <Lepher.ls. lonkni- .. 

 Titan dolli a rirli embroi 

 To kings (hut feur theirs 







othei 



ouuda herself. 



id, to conclude our references, we will only call 

 mind that it was on a promontory, which we 

 te to be an deration of laud, that Obek_>s- sat 



And certain atari »hot madly from inch- spheres 



Now, lucre are different kinds of hills. In regard 

 the emotions that they produce in an apprecia- 

 e mind, they may be classed as 

 Suttlim* hilU— where rocks are piled on rocks in 

 Jd confusion — "where diny precipices frown — 

 where mountain torrents roar and tumble down, 

 plunging into romantic chasms with ceaseless tur- 



Love op Approbation*.— The greatest enemy lhat 

 ve hare to combat in the education of children, is 

 iclf-love, and fo this enemy we cannot rivc atten- 

 ion loo early. Our business is to weaken it, and 

 ve must be careful no! to strengthen it by indis- 

 ximinatc praise. Frequent praise encourages 

 Hide, induces a child to value herself as a superior 

 o her companions, und renders her unable to bear 

 iny reproach or objection, however mild. We 

 should be cautious, even in the expression of oflec- 

 , not to lead children to suppose that we are 

 ilantly occupied with them. Timid children 

 may he eiicuiiin^ed by praise, hul it must he jiuh 

 ly lieslowed. und for their good conduct, nc 

 for personal graces Above all things, it is ncces 

 o inspire them with a love of truth ; lo teach 

 them to practise it at their own expense; i 

 impress upon their minds that there is noth 

 link great u the frank acknowledgment— ' 

 wrong." — Kadamt <1< Lonpberl. 



i'm.-i ..I (j 

 "myriad minded' 

 of a ibephwd, 

 iBppyllfo 



it dials, quaintly, point by poinl, 



days «iii iiio-ii up the year, 

 in known, Ihen to divide ll 





xllly sheep, 

 rencliery '■ 



stand all the plan, of his con mder to failhtully 



duty, linn iiioeii less la II Qeoeesoi i 



fulfill his mission! Thorn i- a tendency in the 

 human heart to pry into all the secreta i I the In 



comprehensible Su\erciL*n "I Ihe Uuivcr.se, uhieh, 

 if known, would not be for his ml van Inge, while 

 s which are essential to his development 

 are cither entirely neglected, or only receive a hasty, 

 partial examination iiy Indulging this tendency, 



man first becomes a Sceptic and then nn A I he is! , 

 for What Dettj has been pleased lo place beyond 

 Ihe grasp of I lie human intellect, man seeks iu vain 

 to comprehend. It lends him to reject ns false, 



NoWj he i- 



tb m he met te mam truths beyond 

 This destroys the beauty of 



Ihe work iu his eye", and its Mm i-m ii de 



uicd. He next turns his attention t< 



but the same dilliculties meet him in Nature. In 



vain heattempK i., ■;,::-. -uro.-tl.in- I, -i I II,,- 



simple fact, l'ursuiug fail 



is mystery. 



Not a single ray of 1 



ght' h 



reiiks the 



surrounding darkness. He reels a 



ol Hi 



moles at 





Disgusted with the r 



roll, 







declaring that there is 



m.lM 





because he 



aniint comprehend Bis 





. In Ibis 



way he is led even to dcuv the c 







declaring that deluded man has a 



existence only 



Now. it i 



a part of man's work! 



cover 



-omofbli 



endencv to 



meddle with what docs not 





him. He h 



is a right yes. „, si,i 



dull 





EnrcATioN*.— Thewald thought it very unfair ii 

 influence a child's mind hv inculcating any opinior. 

 before il should have come to years of discretion 

 and be able to choose for itself. I showed him mi 

 garden, und told him it was my botanic garden.— 

 "Hon ... ■" snid he, "it is covered with weeds.' 

 "0." I replied, "that is because it has not ycl 



• " '" 'is no. of discretion and choice. The 



weeds, yon see, have taken the liberty to groi 

 I thought it unfair in me to prejudi 



favor of n 



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SaLr-ReronM.— If a man would reform the world, 

 let him begin the work in his own body. How can 

 he hope to purify others while his own breath is 

 tainted ■ N«> other enn begin the work for him. 

 He must bring the physical into subjection lo the 

 spiritual of his owu nature by his own effort. He 

 must ascend into the frosty air of purity himself 

 before be can beckon others to follow him. If be 



n at the foot of the eminence, he can only act 

 the part of a guide-board which points out the 



never leading up to Itr— Life Murtrattd. 



At fire years of age the father begins to rub the 

 mother out of his child; at ten the school-master 

 rubs out the father ; at twenty the college rubs out 

 tho school-master; at twcnty-n>e the world rubs 

 his predi 



CnOUgh I" take 



interfere with what is beyond his reach. Tho 



sphere of reason in Kesehiti , lo ascertain the 



itheuticity of the work. If man has evidence thai 

 came from Deity sullicient lo create ttUff, be Is 

 to receive il, notwithstanding it contains some 

 things which he cannot understand. What is 

 above the comprehension of reason, he receives as 

 true on the testimony of the Author. The sphere 

 of reason in the materiel world iswiil, ll 

 of matter— in the world of mind, with il 

 Reason deals not with . ■ ■ ■ , l.ni with attribute. 



Aman«rowrt believe what he sees Is contrary to 

 his reason ; but be can believe, on proper testi- 

 mony, what he cannot understand A blade of 

 grass grows, and man believe- the l;e ' mi iln tes- 

 timony of his scuses; yet he fails lo comprehend 

 it. Man thinks, desires, and wills, and believes 

 the fact on the testimony of consciousness; but he 

 cannot understand hmo this can be. Deity spoke 

 the rolling spheres into existence, and those bright 

 intelligences thai BUROUnd Hi- thrum.-, and man, 

 the crowning glory of creation, and we receive the 

 fuel on the declaration of Deity Himself; yet we 

 foil to c&mprehend that fact. On the si 





e olhe 





-Gon 



the I 



I Of 



e old en< 



ligion for a pastor, when f 

 ur lives in unlearning what > 



just and yet saving i 

 under his feel — one 



three persons — the eternal bliss, or the eternal 

 tormeutof the immortal soul. In rclution to such 

 truths, reason does not say they cannot be; but 

 merely, I cannot fully undmtand tl«m. Now.she 

 can say the same in regard to other troths, such as 

 the existence of Deity, the immortality of man, his 

 dependence on Deity, and hit accountability to 



-truths which she will Bol hesitate for a 

 single moment to admit TnatSoeptio never lived 

 who could prove to v n that a single declaration of 

 "stion was contrary i*> reason. I're-s him 



r, and von will wring from htm this confes- 

 tand, therefore / will not 

 lake this position is lo assume the 

 place of Deity, since it claims that everything is 

 Use which i- not union Ihe comprehtnoion of the 

 human mind, and unlimited comprehension is un 

 attribute that belongs onlj to Deity. — s.~n. 



Btii 



i speak as they wish rather than wfal 



iic- 



