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daughter the results of the morning's walk. first," said she, "called upon Mrs. Housewife, who lives at the head of the street. She takes a great deal of pains to consult me; but I fear it is more for the NAME than any thing else, for I have frequently seen her tables loaded with rich puddings and cake, though she well knows Dr. Combe has pronounced them deleterious to health; and I have often assured her that the plainer kinds of food are equally agreeable when one becomes accustomed to them. And then she still persists in using tea and coffee, though she allows that they are very expensive, and not really necessary. In counting the cost, however, she does not begin to estimate the expense that they really occasion her. Yet she says, as cold water is getting to be fashionable, she supposes she shall be obliged to drink it, to keep up with the times. I next called upon Miss Dressy. Though it was nearly ten o'clock, she had but just arisen, and she was endeavoring to arouse her still sleepy ideas, in order to plan amusements for the day, when I entered. She tried to apologize for her negligent appearance, upon the plea that the ball of the preceding night had very much fatigued her. "And yet," added she, "I do not think balls VERY injurious, for I do not know but my health is as good as that of those who do not attend them."

Poor thing! She never once thought of the loss of time occasioned by keeping late hours, or the SIN of indulging in such frivolous pleasures. I gave

her Dr. Alcott's remarks upon late hours, which she promised to read; but I fear she will never be prepared to receive you as a friend. I made several other calls, and saw ample room for the labors of us both. The poor are suffering by hundreds, while those pickpockets, Appetite and Fashion, have robbed the rich of all power or wish to help them. The epicure indulges himself at his table, while the poor slave who toiled for his dainties, and the sailor who brought them, are forgotten. The lady's toilet groans beneath the weight of aromatic spices, and the lady herself is adorned with jewels and gold; but SHE cares not for the soul of the heathen who gathered them. Little does she consider that the blood of millions will be required at her hands."

"How my heart bleeds when I think of the mental and physical suffering of those who are without the gospel!" replied Benevolence. "It seems as though I must go and teach them the way to peace."

"Your influence is more needed at home," answered her mother. "We must endeavor to instil our principles into the hearts of the people; and if, by our moral power, we can influence the multitude to action, we shall thus benefit the poor and needy more than we could in any other way. We shall be like the wheels within wheels' of machinery, small, to be sure, and almost concealed by the larger parts; but the very main springs of action."

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And they DID, and are still endeavoring to per

form this noble and mighty work. They have preached and practised. Thousands have listened to their heavenly voices, and obeyed their sacred call; but, ah, MILLIONS have let their words drop unheeded! They have scattered their precious seed upon every path in life, and though much of it has fallen upon good ground, and produced abundant fruit, alas! more of it has fallen upon thorns and stony places; and if perchance some of it took root and sprang up, some evil influence has withered it away. The rich are still selfish and oppressive, and the poor are still miserably poor and oppressed. The daughters of the rich man may taste the delights that wisdom affords; but the thousand poor girls, who labor from early till late for a mere pittance, must live and die in their ignorance. So Fashion has decreed, and but few have natural strength of mind sufficient to break away from HER bonds. We are earnestly longing for the time to come when we shall not pay half we earn for expensive food that we do not need, and the other half for gewgaws that do us no good, but much hurt, but when the immortal mind, now famishing and tending to eternal death, will be cared for, and fed, and clothed, and trained for immortal life and joy. Loud is our cry for help to break the cramping fetters that bind us down to earth and vanity, that we may rise above our present state, and be, not what we now are, but what immortal spirits may and ought to be.

THREE ANGEL-SPIRITS.

THREE angel-spirits walk the earth,
Our guides where'er we go;
And where their gentle footsteps lead,
There is no human woe:

They smile upon the cradled child

They bless the heart of youth-
And age is mellowed by the touch
Of Friendship, Love, and Truth.

Three angel-spirits; evermore
They guard our thorny way,
And those who follow where they lead

Can never go astray;

For God has given them alike

To childhood and to youth,

TRUTH is a heavenly principle-a light

Whose beams will always guide the willing right;

A fixed star a spotless, central sun,

In the mind's heaven unchangeable and one.

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, TRUTH.

FRIENDSHIP.

THERE is a star that beams on earth,
With tender, lovely ray;

That lights the path of generous worth,
And speaks a brighter day.

LOVE.

There is a tie, a golden chain,
That binds with stronger hand
Than iron shackles of the cell,
Or all the arts of man.

TRUTH.

There is a gem, a pearl of worth

As lasting as the skies;

More dazzling than the gems of earth, Its splendor never dies.