the house is well kept.  Woman is respected and supported, not in idleness, but in caring for the wants of those committed to her care.  The attempt is being made to disregard these natural laws, by those who claim to have outgrown divine legislation, and who have the hardihood to trample upon the laws of nature.  But in vain.  When God made our first parents, he made them male and female, and it will not be difficult to believe in the impossibility of the finite being able to undo the work of the Infinite.  Each has his and her place, and nothing goes continuously right if husband and wife change places.  Keep the positions assigned them by the laws of God and nature, and all will go well.

Give to woman the serious consideration due from every man born of woman’s agony, and you build her up in love, endow her with respect, encourage her to cultivate her mind, and to develop the graces of her nature.  The mightiest influence which exists upon earth is concealed in the heart of woman.  It follows that her elevation and her happiness, her education and usefulness, are objects of deep concern.  We have seen that the legislation of Heaven provides for the gratification of the early longing of the soul for companionship in making marriage honorable and love the holiest of instincts.

It is fashionable to talk against an early love.  It is wrong thus to do.  “Youth longeth for a kindred spirit, and yearneth for a heart that can commune with his own.  He meditateth night and day, doting on the image of his fancy.”  It is the tendency of an early love to inspire youth with grand aspirations and lofty aims.  “They that love early, shall become like-minded, and the tempter shall touch them not.  They shall grow up, leaning on each other, as the olive and the vine.”

It is only when love is scorned, when passion takes its place, when man forgets that the idol of his heart is a probationer of earth like himself, that it is his duty to be chary of her soul, feeling that it is his jewel.  It is only when a man ceases to be a man, and becomes a beast, that he can consent, even in thought, to despoil woman of her virtue; to trample upon the sacred instincts of her nobler nature.  A real woman will delight to make herself worthy of love.  In the advancement of her mind, quite as much as in the adornment of her person, she strives to make herself beautiful as well as lovable.  If she forgets her duty, and consents to seem to be what she is not, so that her admirer finds that the appearance which charmed him was not real, then the future of that woman is dark indeed.  Her husband will discover, when too late, that “the harp and the voice may thrill him, sound may enchant his ear, but, by and by, the hand will wither, and the sweet notes turn to discord; the eye, so brilliant at even, may be red with sorrow in the morning; and the sylph-like form of elegance must writhe in the crampings of pain.”