The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-05

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than bird can fly without wings. You
would be trying to make bricks without
straw. Think of woman by the side of
dying sister, or sorrowing friend, or n
broken-hearted and broken-spirited man,
without word of heaven in her mouth
without 50 much as the ability to whs-
per "Our Father" or even to point her
finger hopefully toward the starsl
Againyou life and duties are peculiar,
as your sphere is distinct. If you lead a
worthy, womanly life. it will be home
life, from great excitements. The
current of your thoughts will flow in reti-
red channels. You will hear outside,
the braying of trunpets, and the roll of
drums, and the din of wheels, and the
rush and roar of the worlds great bust
ness. Oftentimes, when you are busy
with your modest affairs, and going thro'
the wearying routine of your life, you will
be tempted to repine at their quietness
and insipidness. Many woman does the
work of her life without being seen or
noticed by the world. The world sees
family reared to virtue,-one child after
another growing into Christian manhood
and womanhood, and at last it sees them
all gathered around grave where the
mother that bore them rests from her
labors. But the world has never seen
that quiet woman laboring for her child
rem, making their clothes, providing their
food, teaching them their prayers, and
making their home comfortable and hap
Ply. The world knows nothing, or does
not think, of the fears, the pains, the anxi-
cites inseparable from the mothers office.
She bears them alone, and discharges
their peculiar responsibilities without as
sistance. No individual in the world can
do a mothers work for her. A family of
young immortals is committed to her
hands. The rearing and training Of these
form business to which she has served
no apprenticeship. If divine guidance
and support be necessary to any one in
the world, they are necessary to the wife
and mother Ii is sad, sad thought to
any son or daughter that his or her mo-
Their was not a woman OF piety. The boy
that feels that his name is mentioned in a
good mothers prayers, 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 reyer-
ence to his pieus mothers prayers for
him. Tossed by the waves, in vessel
which was bearing him homeward, he
| wrote:
"Sleep safe, o ! ware-worn mariner,
Nor fear tonight nor storm nor sea
Tile car Of HeGren bends loac to her;
He comes to shore VIao sails ,giM ne!'
Will not piety be necessary to you?
Will not your picty be necessary to your
children?
And now, young women, few closing
words. | have no doubt many of you
have read these letters with care, and with
an earnest desire to profit by them. They
have been written in all honesty and sin
cerity, and l leave them with you. The
opinions / have given you have not been
hastily formed, nor has the counsel / have
urged upon you arisen from anything but
a conscientious conviction Of your wants,
and a desire to help you 10 Eofnanhood,
the noblest to be achieved IN this world
Your happiness is very much in your own
hands; so are your usefulness and your
good name I do not ask you to be any
thing but glad, sunny woman. Iwould
have no counsels of mine recommended
By long faces and formal behavior. l
would have YOU SO ut peace with Heaven,
with the world, and with yourself, that
tears shall flow only at the call of sym
patty. l would have you immaculate as
light, devoted to all good deeds, indus
trious, intelligent, patient, heroic. And
browning every grace Of person and mind,
every accomplishment, every noble senti-
ment, every womanly faculty, every Dell
cate instinct, every true impulse, / would
see religion upon your brow-the coronet
by token of which God makes you prin
cess in his family, and an heir to the
brightest glories, the sweetest pleasures,
the modest privileges, AID the highest
honors Of his kingdom.
HoME IS the residence not merely of the
body, but of the heart. 1t is place for
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