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irreparable loss and sorrow, that out of the heart are the issues of death, as surely as are the issues of life; and, consequently, be esteemed and spoken of as selfish, heartless, and unamiable-the tyrants of the domestic circle. I have known men of this stamp whose presence and conversation inspired only feelings of constraint and dislike; it being fully apparent that to the education of the mind they had not added culture of the heart. If a young man, he enters the paternal dwelling with stately step, fresh from the reading or lecture-room, or the debating club. The poor mother quails before him, afraid lest her culinary and other arrangements will not meet the approbation of her learned son; while his good, honest father sits silent in his chair, protected by his implied insignificance from his son's haughty and condescending notice, and his expressions of contemptuous pity for his ignorance; and his sisters, for anything good or agreeable they possess, are in his estimation nowhere, except that he says they are always in his way. Perhaps he may favour his brothers with a sort of insulting patronage, which they are almost sure to refuse and resent, as proffered more from vanity of mind than brotherly affection. But nowhere is this want of culture of the heart so apparent as in one who is a husband and father. His children do not run to lisp their sire's return, or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share; and his pale, anxious wife looks awestruck and constrained before him; and his neighbours pass him with this remark— "John has grown a proud, sulky fellow since he took so much to books and attending mechanics' institutes."

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And now I would entreat you, my brethren of the working-class, that you would bear in mind and act upon this urgent truth, proved and fortified by observation and experience that education of the mind, however necessary, beneficial, and worthy of approbation, is yet, in regard to the real happiness, peace, comfort, and true interests of society, but a half-measure, if not intimately blended and associated with culture of the heart, its feelings and affections. Education of the mind, when adapted to sex and circumstances, is both useful and becoming in a working-woman; and a well-informed and intelligent woman, is a most interesting and pleasing object, but the seat of her strength is not in the headit is in the heart. What would man be, what would the world be, were it not for the full fountains of true and tender love, sweet and holy affections, gushing sympathies, kindly feeling, and the warm and active charities which are ever overflowing from the cultured heart and affections of true womanhood?

Working-women, daughters of working-mothers with families, your education must have chiefly been that of the hearth and the heart. You could not be spared for. years to attend school. Mother could not dispense

with your assistance in nursing baby, and many other domestic services within the compass of your strength and ability. But if she was indeed a true mother, and could read the Bible, and any suitable book that came in her way, she would surely impart to you whatever of learning and knowledge she possessed herself, accompanied with suitable instructions.

This education, scanty and confined as it is, when joined to that daily culture of the heart and affections, is ever best attained and developed in the reciprocal exchange of filial and fraternal affection on the domestic hearth. It is there an intelligent, right-minded, and warm-hearted working-woman may gain higher, holier, sweeter triumphs, and confer more solid and lasting benefits on her family and in her circle, by early, earnest teaching and training her children in habits of religion, prudence, and industry. I say, she will gain higher, dearer triumphs than ever were deserved or obtained by the most brilliant and successful female lecturer that ever mounted the platform or thrilled an audience with her eloquence. A woman whose heart, like that of Elihu, is ready to burst, like bottles filled with new wine, by the effervescence caused by the discussion of any great public measure, or exciting popular topic, if she is a sufficient adept in composition, may always find a vent for her opinions and feelings on such subjects through the press. One of our great poets says the proper study of mankind is man; and under the shadow of this authority I venture to give my humble opinion that the proper study of womankind is woman; and I dare to say that the woman who takes up and thoroughly studies that interesting and sometimes intricate subject, will find ample scope for the exercise of her mind, whether in thinking or acting, and, above all, in the study and culture of her heart, affections, and feelings.

I hope in these desultory remarks which I have

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thrown together on these important subjects, I have shown that culture of the heart is an indispensable adjunct to education of the mind, and that they bear the same relation to each other as light and heat in the solar rays. The brilliant light and flashing splendours of the sun produce neither life nor its sustainments, its flowers or fruits; but conjoined with its genial warmth and heat, produces and fosters a rich abundance of lifesustaining fruits, and richly perfumed and beautiful flowers. So under the joint influence of an educated mind and rightly cultivated heart, the warm and fruitful affections of the one, and the light, beauty, and usefulness of the other, are ever most warmly felt and richly developed in woman's most legitimate sphere of actionthe domestic hearth.

THE TWO CONQUERORS;

OR THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE MISSION OF PAUL AND SILAS TO MACEDONIA.

Acts xvi. 9-40.

"TWAS ancient Macedon that gave to time
The hero, world-renown'd-his sire sublime
Olympian Jove: so said the royal dame

Whose breast maternal nursed the child of fame.
All-conquering conqueror-too small the world
For thine ambition-thrones and sceptres hurled
To dust; earth saw her dynasties o'erthrown,
That thou might'st reign unrivall'd and alone!
Lo, in the van, to fight, command, and lead,
Earth's matchless rider on his matchless steed,
From Greece to Ind, still victory flies before,
Till Alexander reigns from shore to shore!
The scene is changed, the victor quits the field,
Fierce joys, wild pleasures, all that earth can yield,
Are his nude nymphs-his bloody laurels twine
With myrtle wreaths. On floods of sparkling wine
Sits Death triumphant, plucks the victor's crown
From his cold brow, and binds it on his own.
Long ages pass-'tis Macedonia still.
Not now the trump of war from hill to hill
Awakes the echoes of each rock and cave
With calls to victory or a warrior's grave.

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