down the young lady's face, while many in the congregation wept over the affecting scene. What a blissful moment to that young woman! For all the joys that rank and possession promise, she would not have parted with the happiness of that hour. In the humble discharge of duty she found more enjoyment than England's haughty queen derived from her royal splendor. And how much more beautiful is such an act in the female character! How much more worthy an immortal being! How much more dignified and honorable!

Here the character of Mary Lyon shines with peculiar lustre. From her youth she was accustomed to ask, what is duty? and not, what advantage will position give? Nor did she aim to discharge duty for the sake of the enjoyment to be derived therefrom. It was for duty's sake alone that she would meet her personal obligations. She devoted herself to teaching, from this high consideration. She never left one school for another until this point was settled conscientiously. Higher wages alone did not influence her to relinquish one field for another. Sometimes she declined the offer of more remuneration in another place, because she believed that duty bade her remain where she was. When she was teacher at Mount Holyoke Seminary, she never failed to hold up this high standard to her scholars. They can

now testify to the fervor and eloquence with which she often discoursed upon this subject. "Do not think of filthy lucre and immortal minds together," she would say. "Dollars and cents can never pay the faithful minister, nor the faithful teacher. The field is all white, and whoever has a willing heart may sharpen her sickle, and help gather in the harvest." Again she would add, "Do not say you would like to take a few music scholars, or to assist in an academy. Labor for the degraded. Take hold where no one else will." In other words, go where duty calls. She taught her pupils in this way, because such had been her convictions from early life. She taught as she had lived. She had learned from happy experience that no enjoyment can equal that which flows from the faithful discharge of duty.

There is one passage in her life that is truly sublime, in consequence of the firm, inflexible purpose, with which this consideration was maintained. A fatal disease appeared in the Seminary, and one of the pupils lay at the door of death. When the nature of the disease was announced to the school, many of them were filled with alarm. Miss Lyon beheld this state of things with regret, and she finally assembled the school for the purpose of imparting such moral and religious lessons as the occasion required. They came together with anx

ious looks and trembling hearts. She impressed upon them the comforting doctrine of Divine Providence, and closed her address with these memorable words, “SHALL WE FEAR WHAT GOD IS ABOUT TO DO? THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE THAT I FEAR, BUT THAT I SHALL NOT KNOW ALL MY DUTY, OR FAIL TO DO IT." It was her last instruction to her school; for, on the following day, the dreaded malady prostrated her, and in a single week she passed to the spirit-land. The words are inscribed upon the east side of the beautiful monument erected over her remains. They are worthy of that place, that every pupil, and every traveller, who lingers to read thereon the record of her life and death, may be impressed with the sacred demands. of DUTY.

Let the reader imitate the noble, Christ-like example of Miss Lyon, and thereby avoid the common mistake of girls. There never comes a time in the life of male or female when adherence to duty is the subject of regret. Even when the severest trials and hardships are experienced in consequence, this exalted principle of action opens a spring of joy in the soul. On this account, that devoted missionary, Elizabeth Hervey, could say, as she lay dying in a distant land, "Now tell my friends, tell my beloved pastor, tell the dear church in Hadley, that I do not, and never have for a mo

ment regretted that I came here. No; had I foreseen this hour, and all I have endured since I left America, I should have decided just as I did, if the path of duty had been as plain as it appeared to be." The motto of every girl should be,

DUTY BEFORE POSITION.

CHAPTER IV.

FEMALE INFLUENCE.

REMARK OF A GIRL-ERRONEOUS VIEWS-FEMALE INFLUENCE

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OF REV. J. A. JAMES INFLU-
CASE OF GENERAL HOUSTON -

REMARKS OF ADOLPH MONOD
ENCE OF WIVES AND MOTHERS
THAT OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH WIVES OF THE GENERALS
HOWE - MOTHER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS OF REV. RICHARD
KNILL OF BACON, DWIGHT, NEWTON, ETC. ALL COUNTRIES
GOVERNED BY WOMEN MOTHER OF WASHINGTON-DISCOVERY
OF AMERICA PARTLY DUE TO WOMAN SO ORIGIN OF INFANT
SCHOOLS EFFORTS IN WORKS OF MERCY-MOHAWK INDIANS-
FEMALES DECIDE MORALS EXAMPLE OF MARY LYON HER
SEMINARY-HER THREE THOUSAND PUPILS-SKETCH OF ONE OF
THEMA HUNDRED THOUSAND TEACHERS-CONVERSION OF PU-
PILS - HER INFLUENCE EQUALS THAT OF ANY STATESMAN—
HANNAH MORE CONCLUSION.

"INFLUENCE!" exclaimed a sprightly miss, in reply to a remark upon the subject, "a woman have influence upon society! It is no such thing. Not half the wives even can influence their husbands a whit, and I am sure that half the mothers fail to persuade their children to do right." Like many other girls, she had no just idea of what female influence is. Perhaps here may be found a reason for the want of effort among females to accomplish noble things. It is certain that the