eans. The result will be honorable
to yourself, delightful to your friends, and beneficial to the world.
I advise not to gigantic aims, to enormous enterprise. The world has
seen but one Newton, and one Howard. Nothing is required of you but to
make the most of the opportunities within your reach.

"Recall the example of Mrs. Graham. Here was a woman, a widow, a
stranger in a strange land, without fortune, with no friends but such
as her letters of introduction and her worth should acquire, and with
a family of daughters dependent upon her for their subsistence. Surely
if any one has a clear title of immunity from the obligation to carry
her cares beyond the domestic circle, it is this widow, it is this
stranger. Yet within a few years this stranger, this widow, with no
means but her excellent sense, her benevolent heart, and her
persevering will to do good, awakens the charities of a populous city,
and gives to them an impulse, a direction, and an efficacy unknown
before.

"What might not be done by men--by men of talent, of standing, of
wealth, of leisure? How speedily, under their well-directed
beneficence, might a whole country change its physical, intellectual,
and moral aspect; and assume, comparatively speaking, the face of
another Eden, a second garden of God. Why then do they not diffuse
thus extensively the seeds of knowledge, of virtue, and of bliss? I
ask not for their pretences; they are as old as the lust of lucre, and
are refuted by the example which we have been contemplating: I ask for
the true reason, for the inspiring principle of their conduct. It is
this--let them look to it when God shall call them to account for the
abuse of their time, their talents, their station, their 'unrighteous
mammon'--it is this: they believe not 'the words of the Lord Jesus,
how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.' They labor
under no want but one, they want _the heart_. The bountiful God
add this to the other gifts which he has bestowed upon them. I turn to
the other sex.

"That venerable mother in Israel who has exchanged the service of
God on earth for his service in heaven, has left a legacy to her
sisters: she has left the example of her faith and patience; she has
left her prayers; she has left the monument of her Christian deeds;
and by these she being dead, yet speaketh. Matrons, has she left her
mantle also? Are there none among you to hear her voice from the tomb,
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