his sudden and impetuous providence, were ready to
exclaim, "To what purpose is this waste?" Her day of influence will
extend beyond the noon or the even-tide of an ordinary life of labor.
"_Sweet Mary Hawes_" (as she is named by one who never saw her, and
whose knowledge of her is all derived from the volume we have been
reviewing), shall long live in these pages, embalmed in unfading youth,
to win and to guide many to Him, at whose feet she sat and learned to
"choose the better part." Her pleasant voice will be heard in our homes,
assuring our daughters that "there is no sphere of usefulness more
pleasant than this;" bidding them believe that "it is a comfort to take
the weight of family duties from a mother, to soothe and cheer a wearied
father, and a delight to aid a young brother in his evening lesson, and
to watch his unfolding mind." They shall catch her alacrity and cheerful
industry, and her "facility in saving the fragments of time, and making
them tell in something tangible" accomplished in them. They shall be
admonished not to waste feeling in discontented and romantic dreaming,
or in sighing for opportunities to do good on a great scale, till they
have filled up as thoroughly and faithfully as she did the smaller
openings for usefulness near at hand.

She shall lead them by the hand to the Sabbath-school teacher's humble
seat, on the tract distributor's patient circuit, or on errands of mercy
into the homes of sickness and destitution,--into the busy
sewing-circle, or the little group gathered for social prayer. It is
well too that they should have such a guide, for the offense of the
Cross has not yet ceased, and the example of an accomplished and highly
educated young female will not fail of its influence upon others of the
same class, who wish to be Christians, and yet are so much afraid of
every thing that may seem to border on _religious cant_, as to shrink
back from the prayer-meeting, and from active personal efforts for the
salvation of others. Her cheerful piety shall persuade us that "_it is
indeed_ the _simplest_, the _easiest_, the _most blessed thing in the
world, to give up the heart to the control of God_, and by daily looking
to him for strength to conquer our corrupt inclinations, _to grow in
every thing that will make us like him_." Her bright smile is worth
volumes to prove that "_Jesus can indeed satisfy the heart_," and that
if the experience of most of us has taught us to believe, that