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Then with a statue's smile, a statue's strength,
Stands the mute sister, Patience, nothing loth,
And both supporting, does the work of both.
I. T. COLERidge.

WE must bear in mind that it is essential to the welfare of children, to know how to obey, to submit their wills, and to bear a denial. While, at the same time, their minds should be left free and vigorous, open to every innocent enjoyment, and unfettered by the thraldom of fear. We shall best unite these important advantages, by an authority firm, but affectionate; equally free from peevishness or ill-temper, and an excess of indulgence; regular and consistent: never unnecessarily called into action, but always with effect; exercised with a simple view, to the good of those under our care, according to the dictates of judgment, and from the principle of love; for the reproofs, corrections and restraints which are necessarily imposed upon children, should spring from love, as well as the encouragements and indulgences which we bestow upon them. MRS. HUNTINGTON.

ON CHILDREN.

A CHILD is a box full of gems, if we know how to work on them, so that he shall be able to show them, in all their brightness. These gems are discoloured, it is true, but they are made more so by a wrong education.

J.

ON DIVERSIFYING OCCUPATION.

LET not your field or your mind lie fallow too long: they will produce a crop of weeds; and weeds are much readier to take root than to leave it. The most profitable husbandry, that which best works the land without leaving it, is by a change of crops.

Longhi, the great engraver of Raphael's lovely Marriage of the Virgin, told me that he made it a rule always to have two prints in hand; and that turning from one to the other was the only relaxation he needed.-For relaxation means loosening, not untying; and when you have loosened your faculties, you may soon tighten them again: but if you let them lie on the ground, they get entangled and knotted, until it is often no easy task to bring them into order.

GUESSES AT TRUTH.

SECTION IV.

ON THE

RULES AND EXAMPLES

FURNISHED BY THE SCRIPTURES

ON THE

SUBJECT OF EDUCATION.

THY word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Ps. 119, 105.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. ROM. XV. 4.

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