The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-05

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MATERNAL INFLUENCE. The mental
fountain is unsealed to the eve of a mother.
ere it has chosen a channel, or breathed a
murmur She may tinge with sweetness or
bitterness, the whole stream of future life.
In the moral field she is privileged labor
er. Ere the dews of morning begin to ex
hale, she is there. She breaks I'D assoil
which the root of error and the thorns of
prejudice have not preoccupied. She
plants germs whose fruit is for: eternity.
While she feels that she is required to edn-
cate not merely virtuous member of soci-
ETY., but Christian, an angel, a servant of
the Most High, how does SO holy a charge
quicken piety, by teaching the heart its own
insufficiency!
The soul of her infant is uncovered be-
fore her.. She knows that the images she
enshrines in that unoccupied sanctuary.
must rise before her at the bar of doom.
Trembling at such tremendous responsible
ty, she teaches the little being, whose life
is her dearest care, of the God who made
him !; and who can measure the extent of a
mothers lessons of piety, unless his hand
might remove the veil which divides terres-
tial things?
"WhenI was little child" said rood
man, I" my mother used to bid me kneel be-
side her, and place her hand upon nv head
while she prayed. Ere I was old enough
to know her worth, she died, and was left
to my own guidance. Like others, was
inclined to evil passions, but often felt nv
self checked, AS it were, drawn back bv the
soft hand upon my head. When was a
young man travelled in foreign lands, and
was exposed to many temptations. But when
would have yielded, that same hand toas
upon my head, and was saved. | seemed
to feel its pressure as in the days of my in
fancy, and sometimes there came with il q
voice in my heart, a voice that must be
obeyed,- Oh do not this wickedness, my
son, nor sin against thy God.'"
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ANIMAL GRATITUDE. The gratitude
and affection of mute animals is indeed sur
! prising. 1t is related in the Memories
du Marquis LongaLLey, that on returning
home from an absence of two years in the
army tavorite dog which he had left came
to meet him in the court yard, and recogniz-
ed him as if he had been absent only two
days leaped upon his neck, and died of 'ioy at
having found him. The dog of Sahinus
who suffered execution for his attachment
to the family of Germanicus, alone remain
ed faithful to his master. He never left
, the body for three days, and when at length
it was thrown into the Tiber, be leaped in
after it, and preserved it from sinking.
J Chenier in his +" Present state of Morocco
says, that Brebe who went to hunt the
! Lion met with two whelps, with whom he
} shared his breakfast. Soon after, the dam
stole up SO silly that he had not time to
take his gun. The lioness after having
r looked for some time at them disappeared.
:; but returned soon, bearing a sheep, which
7 she laid at the hunters feet
!, The story related of the gratitude of q
goat to Scot who bound up her fractured
r leg, and her defence of him when he was
brought into trouble by his participation in
the rebellion ofl515, is well attested. Even
, tigers, the most ferocious, and less grateful
e Of all beasts, have been known to fawr
e upon those who had rendered services I,
: them, or their young. Jengis Khan escap
: ed from destruction by the gratitude of nj
G OWL There is no creature but man tina
q forgets services done him.
DIALOGUE.
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