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192 INFLUENCE OF AN ELDER SISTER. 
daughter was to assist- them in forming the char¬ 
acters of their younger offspring. They were not 
disappointed. The younger members of the fami¬ 
ly “ rise up and call her blessed; her husband, also, 
and he praiseth her;” for, by thus doing good in 
her youth, she is better prepared to act her part as 
a wife and mother. 
If it be true that a sister’s influence is so very 
important, ought not parents to feel, while training 
their eldest daughter, that (instead of being in¬ 
dulged because she is the eldest, as is too often 
the case) she should be more carefully watched 
over, more strictly disciplined, and that, in educat¬ 
ing aright this child, they are lightening their 
future burden ? And shall not the daughters of 
our land feel that upon them rests, in some meas¬ 
ure, the responsibility of forming the characters of 
their brothers ? O, shall they not come up to the 
labor which devolves upon them, and so live and 
act, that the generation now coming upon the 
stage of action shall be one which shall be emi¬ 
nently virtuous and holy — one which God will 
delight to bless ? 
Watchman of the South. 
