" Rizpah. 325

" " " Bathsheba. 357

The Mother's Portrait. 310

The Orphan Son and Praying Mother. 378

The Promise Fulfilled. 112, 145

The Riddle Solved. 211

The Stupid, Dull Child. 175

The Treasury of Thoughts. 162

The Wasted Gift, or Just a Minute. 125, 150

The Youngling of the Flock. 196

The Young Men's Christian Association.--By Mrs.
L. H. Sigourney. 228

To Fathers.--By Amicus. 7

To my Father. 318

Trials. 227

Why are we not Christians? 346

Woman.--By Rev. M. S. Hutton, D.D. 370

MRS. WHITTELSEY'S

MAGAZINE FOR MOTHERS

AND DAUGHTERS.

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Editorial.

A WORD OF EXHORTATION.

Sensible of our accountability to God, of our entire dependence upon his
blessing for success in all our undertakings, knowing that of ourselves
we can do nothing, but believing that through Christ strengthening us we
may accomplish something in his service, we enter upon the duties of
another year--the twentieth year of our editorial labors.

With language similar to that which the mother of Moses is supposed to
have employed when she laid her tender offspring by the margin of the
Nile:--

"Know this ark is charmed
With incantations Pharaoh ne'er employed,
With spells that impious Egypt never knew;
With invocations to the living God,
I twisted every slender reed together,
And with a prayer did every ozier weave"--

we launched our frail bark upon the tide of public opinion. Since then,
with varied success, have we pursued our course--often amid darkness,
through difficulties and dangers, and to the present time have we been
wafted in safety on our voyage, because, as he did Moses in the ark,
"the Lord hath shut us in."

Referring whatever of success has attended our efforts to His