aged as well as those of childhood, that we find not unfrequently, the bonds of both conjugal and parental love severed, with all the ties of consanguinity immolated under the cracking and crushing wheels of the car of Jugger

naut.

Or else a mother committing her infant to the devouring jaws of a crocodile, whose capricious tears she believes flow for an offence committed by her against some idol whom she falsely worshipped as a god, and to appease which, considers duty demands the sacrifice of

her child.

Or the wife believing it a sacred duty, commits her body to the burning fagot, and on the funeral pile expires with her also falsely educated and deluded husband.

And the early principles instilled in the mind of a child, have, in after years, even in old age, so developed themselves, as not only to change the order of natural affections, but to render it a cosmopolite or citizen of the world, at the expense of those feelings which flow more immediately in channels of their own native land. And although this cosmopolite may boast of his or her philanthropy, distrust their sincerity so long as they fail or neglect to discharge those natural duties which flow from the tie of consanguinity.

The natural man is everything with himself, and has justly been styled a numerical unit, an absolute integer that bears no relation but to himself or his species, while the civilized man is a relative unit, the numerator of a fraction that depends on its denominator and the whole value consists in its relation to the integral body of society, and also a child may be so trained as in after life to totally disregard the sufferings, or to rejoice in the happiness of its fellow man in other climes than that of its own native land; and in some instances, so ardent has the love of nativity been carried, that self-preservation (nature's first and general law), has been so disregarded as not even to claim a secondary thought.

The selfish views which too greatly characterize the present political age in almost every land, would illy comport with the Lacedemonian Pædaretes, who presented himself for admission in the council of the Hundred, was rejected, returned home rejoicing that there were to be found in Sparta three hundred better men than himself.

Admit the demonstrations of this man's joy sincere, as there is no room to believe they were not, we prove him a true citizen of his countrymen.

Again, the page of History declares that a woman of Sparta having five sons in the army, and being in hourly expectation of a battle, a messenger at length arrived, of whom she trembling asked the news. "Your five sons," said he, 66 are slain ;" upon which the woman vehemently exclaimed, "Vile slave, who asked you of my sons?" "But we have gained the victory," continued he; this was enough; the heroic mother ran to the temple and gave thanks to the gods. Though the conduct of this mother under certain qualifications might adorn the ensign of any nation, still it shows an absence or want of those benign influences of Christianity which better prompts the mother's bosom, and spurns to appease with human life the capricious cries of a crocodile.

Daily experience and observation teaches that we are greatly the children of circumstance, and where a child is not blessed with parents strictly by profession, walking within the pale of the true church militant, yet such is the wholesome influence of Christianity, that men (unless open and avowed reprobates) dare not otherwise than practise it. Morality, which, although it is not genuine religion, still it is one of its brightest concomitants, and when properly brought to bear by example upon the education of a child, beautifully illustrates the saying of a celebrated dramatist, "How far a little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world," "and as the sentiments of reverence has justly been declared by an eminent female writer on the education of children, as one of the noblest attributes of the human mind, affixing an exquisite sense of enjoyment, it operates in a thousand ways to elevate and embellish the character. Its first development is in the feelings of a child for its parents, and this is the natural preparation of the mind, for its rise is to a higher object, even to the Father of Heaven.

As the understanding ripens, and this sentiment is cultivated, it embraces all that is vast and magnificent in nature, and in art, shedding over the character of its professor an indescribable grace, softening the very tones and rendering it impossible for the manners to be wanting

in deference and courtesy towards parents, teachers, or the aged of any description.

In order, therefore, to bring a child up to this desired standard of reverential respect, both the father and mother must, at all times, in their family walk circumspectly, whether in or out of doors, else precept will be of little

or no avail.

To enumerate in detail all the various duties of parents would occupy the labor far beyond the present design; still, I beg leave to mention a few here, reserving others for subsequent pages.

In order for parents to secure respect from their children (as in every other intercourse with society) they must first respect themselves, and show by their daily walk and conversation, as just intimated, that they are as they would have their offspring.

Parents who would avoid rearing their chlidren as calumniators or slanderers must be careful how they speak evil of others, particularly those who are absent, a habit only indulged in by the vicious, low, illiterate, and cowardly.

A good and virtuous man if he can say nothing favorable of his neighbors spurns the mentioning of evil, as he would an armed coward rushing on a defenceless foe. Shakspeare says,

"On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly,

While virtuous acts alone are born to die."

And it is to be regretted that in many parts of our highly favored land many parents spend their social and domestic evenings slandering and vilifying their neighbors, and so keen has their appetite been whetted up by prac tice, that they take occasion on the Sabbath-day, which denies them manual labor, to stroll about from neighbor's to neighbor's, or else congregate on the margin of some stream of water, loll on logs, rocks, or stones, breathing forth mischief and slander against some innocent, unoffending absentees, whose higher sense of right and wrong, and strict attention to matters only of their own, form the sole ground for these unprovoked and wanton calumnies, or attacks, upon his, or her, character.

The celebrated dramatist just alluded to, in further speaking of the slanderer says,

"Who steals my purse steals trash, 'tis something-nothing,
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
But he that filches from me my good name,

Robs me of that which not enriches him,
But makes me poor indeed."

In our Savior's speaking of defilement, he declares in the 15th chapter of Matthew and 11th verse, "It is that which cometh out of the mouth that defileth the man, because it comes from the heart" (here the heart is to be understood as alluding to the mind, and not that organ, as already stated in a former part of this work, which regulates our real life). Yet, notwithstanding this clear divine assertion, we not unfrequently find parents who openly profess to have experienced the renovating influence of divine grace, speaking before their children against their neighbors in language not only disrespectful but couched in obscenity sufficient to shock the inmates of the lewdest and most abandoned brothels.

If a father would have his children honor and respect their mother, or prove to the world that he is a gentleman, let him by example ever address that wife in language as chaste as he did before he received her hand in marriage.

I have already alluded to the importance of some of those obligations which exist in, or grow out of, the marriage contract, and while I may be charged with having attached too great a severity to husbands on account of disrespectful language to their wives before strangers— charity proceeds (notwithstanding deep wounds may have been inflicted) not intentional, but growing out of thoughtlessness, and this latter position reminds me of two pictures, executed in view of social happiness.

The first representing a young gentleman and his intended bride. And agreeing to a short perambulation through an orchard, with a promenade around the garden near the dwelling; the suitor, with all the gallantry of a true lover, is represented as coming up to a pair of bars, which, one after the other, from the top to the bottom rail, he completely removed.

The second picture, one year after marriage, represents a walk over the same ground as the former, but, instead of removing barriers, as before, he is seen ten or fifteen rods in advance, while his wife, with a child in her arms, is climbing over the bars as well as she can.

This may be called unintentional neglect, still, inexcusable, for as his wife she was entitled to more attention after than before marriage, and although the example here could have no effect on the babe at the present time, still, a continuance of the same course of conduct must, in after years, more or less poison that filial and respectful affections due from offspring to the mother.

In promoting a healthy, early education of a child, circumspection, both in language and deportment on the part of the mother, in all her domestic concerns, is of equal, if not of more, importance than that of the father, as I have deprecated obscenity on the part of the latter, far more disgusting does it appear in the former, as their very sex endorses chastity and refinement.

Man when he blushes shows guilt, but in the female it is the brightest ensign of innocence and virtue. But when gossiping from house to house, scattering the firebrands of mischief, by relating in false colors and foul language every little incident or occurrence which she per chance may have collected through an unsuspecting neighbor, is a disgrace to her sex.

A mother at home, chaste at all times in her speech, modest in attire, and diligent in a well-timed systematic arrangement of her household, more nobly fills the station assigned to her, than Queen Victoria on her throne, or any other mother who personally neglects to perform almost every branch of house keeping, even to the natural and honorable office of washing and dressing her own child.

It is said of Dr. Franklin, that on learning his sister's intention to change her state of celibacy, he promised when married to give her a very pretty present. The consummation of her marriage completed, soon directed her thoughts to the promised present from him whom she knew always held it a sacred duty to fulfil every engagement, so far as Providence would permit, and thus commenced to ask herself: "Can it be a set of golden ear-rings-a necklace a finger-ring-a dress of chintz?" certainly not, these are too small and trifling to fill the measure of my brother's love and generosity; he intends no doubt to present me with a beautiful and costly set of silver plate, or else a splendid piano-forte.

The gift as promised, came, but oh! who can imagine