der his instruction.

"He is happy in an excellent wife, who, by bringing him a considerable
fortune, has greatly enlarged his power of doing good. But still more
essentially has she increased his happiness, and raised his character,
by her piety and prudence. By the large part she takes in his affairs,
he is enabled to give himself wholly up to the duties of his profession.
She is as attentive to the bodies, as her husband is to the souls of his
people, and educates her own family as sedulously as he instructs his
parish.

"One day when I had been congratulating Dr. Barlow on the excellence of
his wife's character, the conversation fell, by a sudden transition, on
the celibacy of the Romish clergy. He smiled and said, 'Let us
ministers of the Reformation be careful never to provoke the people to
wish for the restoration of that part of popery. I often reflect how
peculiarly incumbent it is on us, to select such partners as shall never
cause our emancipation from the old restrictions to be regretted. And we
ourselves ought, by improving the character of our wives, to repay the
debt we owe to the ecclesiastical laws of Protestantism for the
privilege of possessing them.'

"Will it be thought too trifling to add, how carefully this valuable
pair carry their consistency into the most minute details of their
family arrangements? Their daughters are no less patterns of decorum and
modesty in their dress and appearance, than in the more important parts
of their conduct. The Doctor says, 'that the most distant and
inconsiderable appendages to the temple of God, should have something of
purity and decency. Besides,' added he, 'with what face could I censure
improprieties from the pulpit, if the appearance of my own family in the
pew below were to set my precepts at defiance, by giving an example of
extravagance and vanity to the parish, and thus by making the preacher
ridiculous make his expostulations worse than ineffectual.

"So conscientious a rector," added Mr. Stanley, "could not fail to be
particularly careful in the choice of a curate; and a more humble,
pious, diligent assistant than Mr. Jackson could not easily be found. He
is always a welcome guest at my table. But this valuable man, who was
about as good a judge of the world as the great Hooker, made just such
another indiscreet marriage. He was drawn in to choose his wife, the
daughter of a poor tradesman in the next town, because he concluded that
a woman bred