lously regarded. Let me add that, if her
situation be a favored one, her poorer relations should be objects of
thought and attention. How ungrateful for her own blessings were
she,--and how forgetful, that soon she also may experience the
buffetings of fortune,--did she treat such a relation with negligence,
or with a haughty, condescending, patronizing, which is often a
heart-lacerating, attention.

Why should a visitor be despised because her age, or manners, or dress
are not perfectly agreeable? Woman has been celebrated by travellers for
her universal hospitality. Let it not be strangers alone, and these the
learned and prosperous, who enjoy her smiles. All, who come beneath a
father's roof, should be made to feel that the daughters are Christian
ladies.

Nor should Domestics fail of receiving a respectful and generous
treatment from the young females of the family. They are endowed with
the same nature, body and mind, as ourselves. Why then demand of them
tasks, which only the mere animal can sustain? We should strive to
assist ourselves, for their sake, no less than our own. Spare them in
their sickness. Speak to them always in a tone of gentleness. If an
overbearing manner in the head of a family be hard to meet, how must it
strike a domestic, when coming from the younger members? Above all,
provide something for the mental, moral, and religious, good of the
domestic. Can you not lend her a volume, or read aloud to her yourself?
Can you not, occasionally at least, facilitate her attendance at church?
Remember you must meet this being at the common judgment-seat of Christ;
and let this thought pervade your whole manner toward her.

Having contemplated a part of the duties growing out of special domestic
relations, let us now advert to a few of the prominent moral virtues,
for whose culture home is peculiarly congenial.

I begin with what some may regard as hardly to be dignified with the
name of duty. But if Health be essential to happiness, and the
basis,--as it doubtless is,--of several Christian qualities, who shall
deny the sacred title of duty, to the care of the physical system?
Whence proceed that morbid sensitiveness, that sickly sentimentalism,
and that puny selfishness, which sometimes mark the delicate woman? They
spring from ill health; and while no means are employed to remove the
root of these moral evils, in vain will the branches of each month or
each day of her life be pruned diligently away.