or honest man, of whom another Scripture says, “His path is as the shining light, which shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.”  The perfect day!  But when is that?  Why in it may mean the day when God will openly acknowledge all the really good as his sons and daughters.  But I love to take it in more enlarged sense—­I take the perfect day to be when the good will be as perfect as they can be; but as that will not be to the end of eternity, those who are trained up in the way they should go, will probably continue to walk in it till the absolutely perfect day comes which will never come, for the good are going to grow better and better as long as eternity lasts.  So much for setting out right with your children, parents!—­bringing them up right—­and this involves, among other things, teaching them to “open the gate for themselves” and similar sorts of things.

GRATIS.

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FEMALE EDUCATION.

BY REV.  SAMUEL W. FISHER.

The nature of female education, its influence, its field of action, comprehending a wide range of the noblest topics, render it utterly impossible to do justice to the entire theme in the brief limits here assigned to it.  Indeed it seems almost a superfluous effort, were it not expected, nay, demanded, to discuss the subject of education in a work like this.

Thanks to our Father in Heaven, who, in the crowning work of his creation, gave woman to man, made weakness her strength, modesty her citadel, grace and gentleness her attributes, affection her dower, and the heart of man her throne.  With her, toil rises into pleasure, joy fills the breast with a larger benediction, and sorrow, losing half its bitterness, is transmitted into an element of power, a discipline of goodness.  Even in the coarsest life, and the most depressing circumstances, woman hath this power of hallowing all things with the sunshine of her presence.  But never does it unfold itself so finely as when education, instinct with religion, has accomplished its most successful work.  It is only then that she reveals all her varied excellence, and develops her high capacities.  It only unfolds powers that were latent, or develops those in harmony and beauty which otherwise would push themselves forth in shapes grotesque, gnarled and distorted.  God creates the material, and impresses upon it his own laws.  Man, in education, simply seeks to give those laws scope for action.  The uneducated person, by a favorite figure of the old classic writers, has often been compared to the rough marble in the quarry; the educated to that marble chiselled by the hand of a Phidias into forms of beauty and pillars of strength.  But the analogy holds good in only a single point.  As the chisel reveals the form which the marble may be made to assume, so education unfolds the innate capacities of men.  In all things else how poor the comparison! how faint