From the Mother's Magazine.

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secution; or he might be left to the mercy mortality; and it was transplanted to flourof a cold hearted world, suffered to wander ish in a more salubrious clime, beyond the forlorn, dejected, and homeless, over the reach of sorrow. earth, and perhaps end his career amid strangers, without a friend to adininister a cup of water to cool his fevered tongue. THE ELDER SISTER. These thoughts were too much for a "Who is that graceful young lady, mother's heart to bear without deep emo- with the two little girls tripping on each tion, and again she petitioned that God side of her, my dear Mrs Grey," said an would keep him from the evils that are in elderly female to her companion, as they the world; that his path might be lit up looked at the beautiful girl as she smilwere walking up High street. Mrs Grey continually by the sunshine of prosperity, ingly nodded in passing, and replied, that he might never know the stings a" that is the eldest daughter of my dear false friend inflicts, feel the detractions of friend, Mrs Cleaveland. She is one of slander, nor have the dark clouds of sor- the most interesting females in the city, and I am often at loss which to admire row gather around his brow, and while her most, the judicious manner in which my imagination painted these dreaded ills to friend has brought up her eldest daughter, her mind, her devotion became almost en-or the excellent principles which reguthusiasm; and in an agony of soul, she late the minutest part of Julia's conduct. cried 'save my son: oh God! save my son She has been taught ever since quite a from the evils to which he will be expos-and sisters as the objects of her peculiar little girl, to regard her younger brothers ed in future life!' and unvarying care. As she has advanc

At that instant the door of the apart-ed to womanhood, it has become more ment was opened, and before the astonish- and more conspicuous, and she is now ed mother appeared a ghostly form, with the most watchful, disinterested being I haggard countenance, whose noise was like a hollow murmur from the tomb.

know.

Her happiness consists in making others happy, particularly her own family.Said the shade, 'I am called the King of She is always ready to perform for her Terrors: I come to grant your petition, love their tender age requires. She atbrothers and sisters, those little offices of and fulfil your requests. I alone can save tends them when they rise in the mornyour son from the evils you fear will falling, dresses them neatly, and never omits upon him. In this world it is impossible attention to their private devotions.but that he should be exposed to sorrow,|| When the bell summons them to mornand all the evils incident to human life.-ing prayer, many a little footfall may be heard following her to the dining room, But there is a brighter country, where sor-where solemnity and decorum mark their row never enters; where nought but behavior. At table, "sister Julia" has peace, harmony and happiness dwell; many a little pinafore to adjust, and where the inhabitants never say I am when the hour for school arrives, every sick.' I come commissioned, with your satchel is ready for their plump little hands to grasp the strings. consent, to transplant that opening bud to bloom in that fertile country.'

She attends to their lessons, mends their clothes, reconciles all their little The mother was silent; opposite and differences, walks with them, plays with contending passions occupied her mind. them, sings for them, and is the source and centre of all their enjoyments. WhatAt length, the desire to promote the interever this good girl can do, either for their est of her offspring overcame, and she comfort or improvement, is to her well tremblingly replied; I submit to your de-regulated mind a source of unalloyed cree, take my child,' The visitor, with pleasure. Mrs Cleaveland, unlike many his cold finger, touched the heart of the mothers I know, taught Julia from her childhood to subdue her natural selfishinnocent, and immediately that young bud ness, and to consider first, the comfort expanded into the bloom and vigor of im-and advantage of her brothers and sis

ters. She was never permitted to as-led is the family where such an elder sissume that haughty air which renders so ter dwells! She resmbles some guardimany elder sisters disgusting. She was an angel ever hovering over the objects never allowed to claim or receive undue of her tenderest love, and gently expandindulgence on that account, and no fa-ing her protecting wing to shield them vors were bestowed upon her, because of from the impending danger. her station in the family. On the con- Mrs Grey had been so animated in trary, she was taught, that whenever it portraying the character of Julia Cleavebecame necessary for one to yield, she land, that she had not noticed the agitawould conquer by yielding, and win by tion which had affected her friend, and kindness, where she might provoke and which now increased so violently that irritate by contending. she abruptly stopped and enquired the

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As she grew up she practised the most cause. disinterested generosity, and when first "Oh, my dear friend," she replied, "the impressed by religious truth, one of the account you give of this sweet young lamost affecting considerations that pre-dy plants daggers in my soul. My eldest sented itself to her mind was, I am the daughter, Emily, might have been all this eldest sister." What has the Lord a right to me, but, alas! she is now reaping the to expect from me? What do my broth-bitter fruits of what my own hand so ers and sisters expect? She told me one abundantly sowed in her childhood, and day, when conversing with her on relig-I am enduring the reproaches of conious subjects, that there was nothing science, armed by myself with ten thouwhich more deeply weighed upon her sand stings!" Here Mrs Grey's friend heart, than the responsible situation in burst into tears, and the gush of feelings which providence had placed her own long struggled with, gave relief to her family. "To me," said the sweet girl, sorrowing heart. When a little composwith tears in her eyes," my dear parents ed, she continued, "You know that Emlook, to strengthen their hands in the ily was my oldest daughter. From childgovernment of our domestic world, to en-hood she was arrogant and self-willed; force their precepts, to exhibit in my ex- always contending that her station as the ample what the younger ones should elder sister entitled her to more indulpractice, and to aid in every way in train-gence than the younger children. She ing up a family for the service of God on insisted upon her brothers and sisters serearth. With my father and mother Iving her, and when favors were to be stand connected by every endearing tie, shared by the little group, she claimed as the representative of my family, and I the first and the best. As she grew up, know I can do much to aid, or much to she became selfish, proud, and unamiadefeat them in all their plans for family ble. For a long time my blind partiality usefulness, and personal holiness. To never discerned the dreadful consequenme, my darlings look for consistent ex-ces of my own foolish indulgence, and ample, a correct tone of sentiment, puri- her faults" grew with her growth, and ty of conversation, and that life of relig-strengthened with her strength." Disionwhich christianity requires. Sometimes putes and quarrels became cominon aI am so overwhelmed with a sense of mong my little ones, and when I reprovmy responsibility, that I tremble at eve-ed them, they would reply, "Oh, mamma, ry step I take, and my daily prayer to my sister Emily did this, and you said nothheavenly father is, "for grace to walk ing to her! Sister Emily said that, and worthy of the vocation wherewith I am you never found fault! These replies opened my eyes completely to my folly. Such was the language of Julia Cleave- I reasoned, I expostulated with my oldest land, when nineteen years old, and her daughter, but alas, it was too late. The daily life bears testimony to the sincerity usual reply I received was, "I am the of her desires. She is constantly aiming oldest, it is my right, and I will have it at the high standard she has set before so." Alas! my family soon presented a her, and every day developes a growing scene of discord and confusion, which, conformity to it. It is not the mere ex-with all my efforts, I was unable to conpression of the lips with Julia, it is a deep trol. It is now but a few days since my conviction of her duty which constantly poor misguided girl eloped with a profliinfluences all her actions. Blessed is the gate young man, and in her eighteenth mother who has such a child! and bless-year has commenced a career which will

called."

terminate in misery in two worlds, unless||Though they had felt its keenest blast,
Almighty grace interpose for her rescue. Emblems of innocence and truth,
Here the distressed mother was oblig-They reared their heads like sprightly
Sighs and sobs, too bitter

her. Her sympathising friend, Mrs. Thus clouds, nor storm, nor wind, nor rain, Grey, hastened forward to her dwelling, Could e'er destroy this lovely twain. and when she had seated the afflicted Perhaps they might e'en now remain, mother upon the sofa, she mentally ex-Had not a fell destroyer came. claimed, "How much is the power of the

He saw them blooming sweetly there,

Mothers, look at the contrast! Have So beautiful, so wondrous fair,

you in your dwellings no portraits which Professing friendship, large and true, resemble these? Examine the likeness, He took one flower from where it grew, and however unskilful the artist may have Saying, "on my breast this flower shall been in portraying the features, you may perhaps trace some resemblance which may rouse your apprehensions lest an Emily should be your child, and you Protect it safe from winter storms, may become the sad and sorrowful pa- And dangerous ills in all their forms, rent, over whose simple tale your sympa- For, centred in this flower shall be, thy has just wept. Mothers, who have My happiness or misery." in your elder daughters a Julia, watch well the tender child! pray earnestly But a short time this lilly flourished, that she may be all, yea more than all For very soon it was not nourished, here described; for much, very much de- Nor shielded from the chilly air, pends upon the influence of the elder sis-As erst it was transplanted there.

There woman sheds an influence round, Over hill and low valley its tissue cloth

More grateful than can else be found,

From lilies fair or damask rose,

That in the mead or valley grows;

And should dark clouds o'ercast her sky,
And woman's tear start in her eye,
Or if her friends descend the tomb,
And all the hopes expire in gloom,
And all the world looks dark and drear,
Her virtues do much bright appear.
She can the ills of life endure,
What her own virtues do not cure;
But when her friends are faithless found,
It gives her heart its mortal wound;
Or if vile slanders round her fall,
Like autumn's frost or frozen hail,
It kills her hopes, it blasts her bloom,
And lays her in an early tomb.

The Young Lady.

For the Ladies' Pearl.

WATER.

BY C. THERESA CLARKE..

N.

Clouds! light, fleecy, clouds of the midsummer sky,

weaves.

Pure Water, I love thee! as doth the fair child,

Who bends to thy mirror with joy growing

wild,

When he sees his sweet face soft reflected therein,

Like a being not meet for this sad world of
sin!

Emblematic of all that is buoyant and blest,
Thou tellest of realms where the weary

may rest

Of silver founts flowing-of pleasures in

store,

Where the traveller way-worn, shall thirst

nevermore!

Springfield, Ms., Aug. 13, 1840.

THE TEMPER.

I recollect reading an anecdote some time since in the journal of one of our popular tourists, which exhibited the disastrous effects that sometimes ensue for the want of self-government on trifling

Ye are gathering slowly and darkly on occasions. As far as I can remember, high!

Through the long sultry days we've been

watching in vain,

the story ran as follows:

The American tourist encountered, while travelling in a diligence in France, an elderly lady, who was a native of the For the thrice-welcome sound of "abun-country, and whose amiable and attracdance of rain;"

tive manners, and good humored endur

And list! it is pouring in fresh, grateful ance of fatigue and inconveniences, ex

showers,

cited the commendations and applause of the American. It is cheering the cups of the late drooping The prepossession was mutual, and before the travellers separaflowers; ted, the matron threw out sundry hints Even noon-tide, and silence, proclaim by for the practical guidance of her more

their spells,

youthful associate. Among these, was a

When water is drawing from Heaven's judicious caution to him against marryown wells.

Old ocean, in majesty yet swelleth on,
With the ever-deep bass of its waves roll-

ing strong;

ing any woman, before he became well acquainted with her domestic virtues.To this end, she advised him never to visit any young lady as an admirer, at a regular hour on each returning day. The traveller manifested surprise, and inquired, "what possible evil could result from paying his visit to the object of his admiLike fairy forms seen but to vanish away!ration, at stated seasons ?" Oh! I love thee, bright Water! in every

On the white beach 'tis playing-the beau

tiful spray,

form

"Very great deception as to character," she replied, "might probably be the con

In the hues of the prism-arch at close of a sequence, inasmuch as the young lady knowing when her lover was to be exstorm, pected, would be prepared in holiday And the blue curling mist that at morning dress and smiles to welcome him. A ||friend of mine," she said, "had learned a

and eve,

Leaving the Old Meeting-House.

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painful lesson, by thus regularly making of their leaving their old meeting-house his calls at a particular hour in the eve- for a new one:

ning on a fair acquaintance. So admira- "And now, my friends, however painbly had she uniformly appeared at these fully we may go from this house, let us times, and so attractive, that his heart go cheerfully and hopefully. We go to had been taken captive; and the young return again. This visible pile is to dislady and her family smiling on his suit,it appear in a few days, but the temple of was about to be consummated, when a God is not to be removed out of its place; very short time previous to that fixed on here on this consecrated ground it is for their marriage, having occasion to again to be restored-a symbol of the leave town on business during the after-resurrection. With profound sensibility noon, he called unexpectedly at an early we go away, to come again and find a hour of the morning to take farewell.- new temple, around which holiest affecThe hall door was open, and he entered tions may gather and kindle. And when unannounced; while he stood just with the edifice which is to rise upon the ruin the threshold, he heard strange and ins of this, shall in its turn grow old, and discordant notes issuing from the family become unfit to satisfy the wants and sitting room, which was near at hand.tastes of some distant future, let that too The sound was so unusual, that his foot fall, only to re-appear in a better resurwas arrested, and he found himself undesignedly a listener in a scene never inThus may the frail house, built by hutended for his ear. It was, alas! the man hands, become immortal like the voice of his bien amie engaged in an an- spirit that hallows it. The ground it gry discussion with her mother about stands on is holy, we would never have some article of dress, in which the taste it desecrated by meaner uses. The wood of parent and child differed-one impas- and stones thereof grow old and are sioned word followed another, until final- changed, but let the temple forever be ly the refractory child prevailed, and the one- -the centre of the same inspiring asmother, with flushed face and swimming sociation-a symbol of the presence of eyes, left the apartment and passing Him who is One, 'the same yesterday, to-. through the hall, disappeared. Shocked day and forever.'

rection.

and astounded by the alarming discovery There is another aspect, however, in which he had so unexpectedly made, the which it may be regarded; not as an old gentleman retreated with a sorrowful thing to be removed, but as a holy thing heart to his lodgings-a painful and heart to be venerated. The idea of a house of rending struggle ensued, the issue of worship connects itself in our minds with which may be readily imagined; he wrote the great purposes to which it has been a kind and feeling letter to her who had devoted, the blessings and consolations thus deceived him so grossly, relinquish of religion, the life and power of faith, ed her hand for ever; since he felt as- and the eternal hope of souls. There is sured, that one who could not command a sanctity in every structure, however her temper on such an occasion to her humble and time-shattered, that has been mother, was illy qualified to render him consecrated to communion with God, and happy as his wife." How many such discoveries are made, word or inspired thought has ever touchto the regeneration of man. If a divine. my dear E, by both man and wo-ed and quickened our souls in the sancman, when, alas! it can profit nothing- tuary, it rushes upon us again at this

the irrevocable vow has been pronounced, and they have been joined together, feet of Jesus, and heard his gracious parting hour. Here we have sat at the until death shall sever the tie, with tastes words of wisdom and love, his lessons of uncongenial, tempers unsanctified, and wills ursabdued.-Young Ladies' Comp. elations of hope and blessedness. justice, faithfulness and charity, his rev-.

Moral Tale.

LEAVING THE OLD MEETING
HOUSE.

Here most of you have listened to the reverend old man, 'like an ambassador of Christ, beseeching you to be reconciled to God. You have seen his deep emo-. We find the following beautiful pas-tion, when sage in a discourse delivered by the Rev "By him the violated law spoke out Mr Stetson, to the First Congregational Its thunders, and by him in strains as sweet Society of Medford, on the late occasion As angels use, the gospel whispered pease.'