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for the conscientious person. God will not forsake the young woman who sets her heart upon the right, determined to maintain it. The day of her triumph will come; and even now her cup of joy is full. Pope was right when he penned the lines:

"One self-approving hour whole years outweighs

Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas;

And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels,
Than Cæsar with the senate at his heels."

There are many girls whose conduct is regulated by expediency or policy, in almost all matters. They have no fixed rules of action, chosen because they are right, but they leave everything to be decided by circumstances. They are influenced by public opinion, and regard what fellow mortals will say about them more than what God will think. They consult the customs and demands of society, rather than the sacred Scriptures, for rules of action. This is the class who make gay and useless women; who do not hesitate to tell the "white lies" of society. Contrast the evening of their lives with that of the Mary Lyon school of integrity, and the difference will present an urgent plea in favor of conscientiousness.

Sometimes timidity, or a desire not to make unnecessary trouble, causes girls to swerve from

the truth.

"Is the room too cool for you?" said a matron to a young lady visitor. "No, I thank you," she replied; and yet she was almost shivering with the cold. "Why did you not reply in the affirmative ?" asked the girl's friend, who was visiting with her. "O, it is such a delicate matter to find fault," said she. Is it not a more delicate matter to compromise the truth? Which is worse, to complain of the temperature of the room, or to inflict moral injury upon the soul? There is much of this kind of falsehood among young and old, and it arises from want of courage to utter the truth.

We also find among women a disposition to violate conscience in exchanging the civilities and courtesies of social life. Many a woman has told another that she was happy to see her when she was not. Some have invented apologies for the appearance of their dwellings when visitors called, without so much as hinting at the true reason. In many kindred ways, women in social life fail to lift up the standard of right.

their hearts say, "no."

Their lips say "yes," when

Alas! that the grace and beauty of feminine character should be marred by such disregard of conscience!

We close this chapter by relating an incident, which illustrates the value and charm of firm adherence to conscience. It is one of many that might

be selected, and we choose it for its connection with a common sphere of effort.

was.

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A laborer, whose business it was to go with the cars on week days, was told that his services would be required on the Sabbath. He made no reply, but went home and told his wife what the request She replied, "I take it for granted that you do not intend to go." He said, in answer to her, "that he should lose his place if he did not go, and this was a matter to be considered, since the times were hard, and he had a family to support." know that,” she answered; "but I hope you will remember that if a man cannot support his family by keeping the Sabbath, he certainly cannot support them by breaking it." Her husband added, "I am very glad that you think so; I think so myself. That is what I wanted, to see whether we think alike." He subsequently informed the Superintendent that he should regret very much to lose his place, as he depended upon it for a livelihood; but that he could not think of going with the mail on the Sabbath, as it would violate his conscience. It was a noble stand to take for the truth, and his wife appears first and foremost in it by her attempt to nerve her husband for the right. He did not lose his place, but rather profited, even in a temporal way, for his integrity; and his wife always blest the hour that she counselled him to act for God rather than man.

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REMARK OF FENELON. DR. SPRING AND DR. OSGOOD SHOWING
DEFECTS IN EDUCATION OF GIRLS - ACCOMPLISHMENTS THE
RAGE "SHOWING OFF "MIND CLAIMS RESPECT-DAUGHTER
OF MITCHELL THE ASTRONOMER, AND THE GOLD MEDAL -
SCHOOLS WHERE THEY ONLY STUDY 'AND. RECITE ERRONEOUS
VIEWS OF GIRLS ON THE SUBJECT-A MERCHANT'S WIFE, AND
A POOR SPELLER-DAUGHTERS
RICH
OF THE
AND
POOR
POLISHED CORNER-STONES, OR BEAUTY AND STRENGTH - MISS
EDGEWORTH AND HANNAH ADAMS-LATTER PREPARED YOUNG
MEN FOR COLLEGE MISS HERSCHEL, MARY DWIGHT, AND OTH-
ERS SELF-CULTURE — GIRLS MUST DEPEND MORE ON IT THAN
BOYS ABIGAIL ADAMS AN ILLUSTRATION-SOME GIRLS WITH
POOR ADVANTAGES EXCEL GRADUATES OF OUR SEMINARIES-
THE CULTURE OF THINKING FEW INVENTIONS BY WOMEN -
SELF-CULTURE DID MOST FOR MARY LYON-READING DID
MUCH FOR TWO LITERARY WOMEN-GIRLS READ NOVELS AND
LOVE-STORIES-MARIA ANTOINETTE-BAD INFLUENCE OF NOV-
ELS POLLOK HOW GIRLS SHOULD READ COLERIDGE'S FOUR
CLASSES OF READERS
"FINISHING" EDUCATION DR. RUSH
AND THE TWO PHYSICIANS-MENTAL CULTURE AN ORNAMENT.

FENELON remarked in his day, "Nothing is more neglected than the education of daughters." Such a remark could not be made in justice at the present day, for much attention is given to the subject. Still, we can unite with Dr. Spring in the opinion that, "in a solid and well-measured edu

cation, the women of the present age are not so far in advance of their predecessors as their opportunities of advancement. They are disposed to magnify the mere elegancies of education above its more useful and practical tendencies; they live in the song and the dance; or they revel in romance, and melt away in dreamy sentimentalism, when they ought to be more intent on storing their minds. with facts and principles; in becoming acquainted with standard authors, and in learning how to turn their attainments to good account." Or we can say with Dr. Osgood, "Accomplishments are poor tricks, unless their polish is but the smoothness of substantial knowledge and judgment. A showy girl, who can dance, sing, and prattle two or three foreign languages, without being able to speak and write sensibly in her own tongue, is one of the most lamentable of counterfeits, and may chance to blight

the

peace and dignity of more hearts than one by her shams. She is the product of that flashy system of training, which is doing more mischief in America than any where else, and making society a tawdry Vanity Fair instead of a companionship of hearts and homes."

These writers have not expressed the existing evil, in the education of girls, in too strong language. No one can fail to see that the prevailing idea of female education makes accomplishments

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