yaa 
might be rendered great auxiliaries of the hospital 
nurses and doctors, Poor goed Sarah Adams was 
then there, moving threugh the wards in an atmo 
sphere of endearment and regard for the motherly 
sympathies she united with her duties. Where there 
was grief there the habit of kindness in her, was 
ready to pour out consolation, and while it alleviated 
bodily affliction, to reconcile the heart with words 
of soothing, to suffering and sorrow as proceases of 
purification to the soul. I would not say this, which 
might pass for mere sentimentai talk, if this remark- 
able negress, were not still spoken of with absolute 
fondness by those who had experienced her worth as 
anurse. With acreature like the sailor, who, with 
whatever of evil he may have, mingled with his 
nature, is distinguished for his generous virtues, the 
impulses that make him the hero amid the ardour of 
patriotism, are the burning zeal and devotion lighted 
at the hearth-fires of home. ‘* The household fire 
and the altar,” says the author of Lectures on the: 
Philosophy of the Human Mind (Dr. Thos. Brown, 
Ixxxix.) “ which are coupled together in the exhor- 
tations of the leaders of armies, and in the hearts of 
these whom they address, have a relation more inti- 
mate than that of which they think, whe combat for 
both. It is before the household fire that everything 
which is holy and worthy of the altar is formed. 
Vhere arose the virtues that were the virtues of the 
child, before they were the virtues of the warrior or 
the statesman ; and the mother who weeps with de- 
light at the glory of her son, when a whole nation is 
exulting with her, rejoices over the same heroic forti- 
