Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-21
FEMALE PETTY,

| The gem of all others which enliches the
coronet Of lady's character, in unaffected pie
Ity. Nature may lavish, much on her person.
the enchantment ofthe conference.-the grace
OF her mien-or the strength of her intellect;
yet her loveiness is uncrowned till picty throws
around the whole, the sweetness and the pow
er of her charms. She then becomes unearth-
ly in her desires and associations. The spell
which bound her affections to things below is
broken-and she mounts on the silent wings OF
her fancy and hope to the habtation of God,
where il is her delight to hold communion with
the spirits that have been ransomed from the
thraldom of earth, and wreathed with a gar
land ofglory.
Her beauty may throw magical charm over
many; princes and conquerers may bow with
admiration at the shrine Of her riches; the sons
of science and poetry may embam her memory
in history and song; yet her piety must be her
ornament-her pearl. Her name must be writ
ten in the "Book of Life" that when noun
tains fade away, and every momento of earthly
greatness is lost in the general wreck of nature,
it may remain and swell the list of that mighty
throng, which have been clothed with the
mantle OF righteousness, and their voices attun-
ed to the melody of heaven.
With such treasure, every lofty gratfca-
ton on earth may be urchased-friendshp will
be doubly sweet-pain and sorrow shall lose
their sting--and the character will possess
price far above riches, life will be but pleas
ant visit to earth, and death the entrance upon
joyful and perpetual home. And when the
notes of the last trump shall be heard, and
sleeping millions awake to judgement, its pos
SCISSOR shall be presented "laultess before the
throne of God with exceeding Joy, and n crown
of life that shall never wear away"
Such is piety, like tender flower planted in
the fertile soil of woman's heart, il grows, ex-
panding its foliage and impating its fragrance
to all around, till transplanted, il is set to bloom
in perpetual vigor and unfadng beauty in the
paradise of God.
Follow this STAR il will light you through
every labarinth in the wilderness of ife-gild
the gloom that will gather around you in dy- !
ing hour-and bring you safely over the tenn !
pestuous Jordan of death into the heaven of
promised and settled rest.
THE LITTLE GIRL, AND THE DARK GRAVE. !
There were in the southern country, faith
sr and n mother, who had a lively little daugh-
er Of three or four years of age, their only
hid. After some time her health .decnod.-
She began insensby to pine away, and all ef-
orts employed by her physician seemed TO be
until at length he was constrained
q communicate to her distressed parents his
onvicton that the child could not long survive.
The little one herself began To suspect the same
hing, and one day, as her father sat by her
ed side, she fixed her eyes on his face, and
aid, "Papa, does not the doctor think I shall
lei" Her father did not conceal from her the
ruth; and on learning il, her little countenance
fell. After an interval of silence,
he said, "Papa the grave looks very dark
Oh, 1t is very dark indeed Papa, won't yon 90
own into it with me :" The father was much
ioved, but endeavored as well as he could, to
,ake her comprehend the impossibility. She
hen said, "Papa, won't you let mamma go 4,
nth me'" To this question he had similar (
eply; on which the little sufferer turned her
ace TO the wall and wept. But while she wept, {
Ike Hezekiah, she had also learned to pray like
i'm; and after having, in her own simple way,
CURED out her heart to COP, she turned TO her
ither with a cheerful countenance and said, !
'apa, the grave is not dark now. know that .
gu aud mamma can't go with me; but JESUS
'ill go with me into the grave" II