rs do to us; therefore, in all transactions, small and great,
maintain strictly the correct, upright, and most honorable practice. I
have heard of boys robbing their neighbors' fruit, etc.; I may truly say
that I believe there are very few in the present day would do such
things, but no circumstances can make this other than a shameful
deviation from all honest and right principles. My belief is, that such
habits begun in youth end mostly in great incorrectness in future life,
if not in gross sin; and that no excuse can be pleaded for such actions,
for sin is equally sin, whether committed by the school-boy or those of
mature years, which is too apt to be forgotten, and that punishment
_will_ follow."

In a letter to her eldest son she begs him to try to be a learned man,
not to neglect the modern languages; but so to improve his time at
school that he may become in manhood a power for good; and then, by
various thoughtful kindnesses manifests her unwearying care for his
welfare.

She gratefully acknowledges, in another communication to a sister, the
assistance which that sister rendered in educating some of the elder
girls, for a time, so enabling Mrs. Fry herself to be set free for the
multitude of other duties awaiting her.

As years rolled by, an acute cause of sorrow to her was the marriage of
one, then another of her numerous family out of the Society. They mostly
married into families connected with the Church of England; but as the
Society of Friends disunite from membership all who marry out of it,
and as parents are blamed for permitting such unions, her sorrow was
somewhat heavy. She even anticipated being cut off from the privilege of
ministry in the Society; but to the credit of that Society, it does not
appear that it silenced her in return for the forsaking, by her
children, of "the old paths." Whether Quakerism was too old-fashioned
and strict for the young people, or the attractions of families other
than Friends more powerful, we cannot say. However, it seems that the
young folks grew up to be useful and God-fearing in the main, so that
the Church universal lost nothing by their transference into other
communions.

When joy seems highest
Then sorrow is nighest,

says the old rhyme. An experience of this sort came to Mrs. Fry. One of
her children had just married an estimable member of the Society of
Friends, and while rejoicing with the young couple, she appeared to be
drawn out in thankfuln