Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-05-19
WHOLE NO. 2172.

own souls wants, while performing the
ministries 10 which in Heavens economy,
you are aPpoinled9 PieIy is, then, an
absolute necessity to you. You can no
more pcIf)rm these offices to which veu
are called, properly and efficiently, with
out piety, than bird can ny without
wings. fou would be trying TO make
bricks without straw. Think of a woman g,
by the side of dying sister, or sick
child, or a sorrowing friend, or a broken
hearted and broken spirited man, withou.
word Of heaven in her month-withnut
50 much as the ability to whisper 'Our
Father" or even io-Point her finger hope. !
fully toward the starsl .a,
Again, your life and duties are pecu-
liar, as your sphere is distinct If you
lead worthy, womanly life, il will be a
home life, free from great exciIements.1
The tJrrent of your thoughts will flow in
retired channels. You will hsar, outside,
the braying of trumpcts, and the roll of
drums, and The din Of wheels, and the
rush and roar OF the worlds great busi-
ness. O!.eniimes, when you are busy
with your modest affairs, and going
through the wearing routine of your life,
you will be tempted TO repine at their
quietnesS and insipidness. Many a wo.
man does the work of her life without
being seen or noticed by the world. The
world sees a family reared to virtue
one child after another growing into
Christian manhoo1 and womanhood. and
nj last it sees them all gathered around
a grave where the mother that bore them
rests from her labors. But the world has
never seen that quiet woman laboring for
her children, making their clothes, provi-
ding their foad, teaching them their pray
ers and making their home comfortable
AMI happy. TIE world knows noth-
| ing or does not think, Of the fears, the
Paias, and the anxieties isseparable from
the mothers ufiice. She bears them
alone, and discharges her pccgliar reSpon-
sibilities without assistance. No indvi.
dual in the world can do mothers work
for her. A family cfyoung immortals is
committed 10 her glands. The rearing
and training Of these form a business 10
which she has served NJ apprenticeship.
( If divine guidance aud support be neces-
sary TO any one in the world, they are
necessary 10 the wife and mother. Ii is
i sad, sal thought to any son or daughter
that his or her mother was not a woman
of pieiy. The boy that feels that his
name is mentioned in mothers PRAYER,
is comparatively safe from vice, and the
ruin TO which it leads. The sweetest
thought that N. P. Willis ever penned
grew out of a reverence 10 his pious
mothers prayers for him. Tossed BY
the waves, in a vessel which was bearing
him homeward, he wrote;
''SIeep safe, o! wave-worn mariner
Nor fear tonight no storm nor sea.
The eGrof HeareH bends LOao to her;
He comes to shore lchO sails lrith me!
VIII not piety be necessary to you?-
win not your Pie;y be necessary to your
children?
Aud now, young women, \ few clos
ing words have no doubt many Of
you have read these letters with care,
and with an earnest wish TO profit by
them. They have been written in all
honesty and sincerity, and leave them
with you. The opinions have given
have not been hastily formed, nor has the
counsel have urged upon you arisen
from anything but conscientious con-
vic.ion of your wants, and desire to
help you 10 womanhood, the noblest TO
Oe GculeESu III tuIS WOEIu. our nappt-
ness is very much in your own hands; 50
are yoHr usefulness and your good name.
| do not ask you to be anything but
glad, sunny woman. would have no
counsels of mine recommended by long
faces and formal behavior. would
have you 50 at peace with Heaven, with
the world, and with yourself, that tears
shall flow only al the call of sympathy. 1
would have you Immaculate as light de-
voted to all g,ol deeds, industrious, in
telligenf, patient, heroic. And growing
every grace Of person and mind, every
accomplishment, every noble sentiment.
every wonanly faculty, every delicate
instinct, every true impulse, would see
religion upon your brow coronet by
token Of which Col makes YOU princess
in his family, and an heir 10 the bright
est glorieS, the sweetest pleasures, The
noblesl privileges, aud the hi5hes, honor
OF his kingdom.
TiAoTHY TrrcoNe.
Sir Walter Scott never wrote truer
words lhan these none that are better