There is generally a delicacy of feeling, of thought, and of action, corresponding with the delicacy of her physical organism.  God hath made her gentle by nature, and kind.  She likes and longs to be loved and to love, must have some object on which she can center her affections.  She admires flowers, and everything which is beautiful and delicate like herself.  She has a finer imagination and more curiosity than men.  She is more conscientious and truthful, and though a fallen, sinful creature, and by nature like us all, a hater of God, yet there is not so decided an opposition to religious things in her heart, in her loving nature; there is not, indeed, a predisposition towards a God of love, but a peculiar adaptation which assimilates more easily to religious things when her heart is touched by the Holy Spirit.  The beauty, the harmony, the adaptation of the Gospel to the wants of our fallen nature, are more apparent to her, more quickly perceived.  This may also, perhaps, be traced to another peculiarity which I must not forget to mention—­her disposition to lean on others.  Unlike man, she loves to be dependent—­place her in danger and she naturally flies to her brother, her father, or her husband.  I am aware that to all these things there are exceptions—­there are unwomanly women as there are effeminate men, but the fewness of the exceptions only proves the general truth.  England had her masculine Elizabeth, but she had only one.

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CHILDREN AND THEIR TRAINING.

What wonderful provision has God made for the happiness, safety, and well-being of infants.  He has implanted in the human breast a natural love of offspring, and has provided for each child parents, who should be of mature age, and who should have been so trained by their parents, that by combined wisdom, sagacity and experience, it may be duly watched over and cared for, and so trained as to answer life’s great end, viz., “To glorify God and enjoy him forever.”

Then how wisely is the body framed, and most wonderfully adapted to answer all the purposes of life, and especially during the period of infancy and childhood, when the body must be more or less exposed to accidents; while therefore it is destitute of experience, and cannot take care of itself, its bones are all soft and yielding, and more particularly of the skull which incloses and protects the brain, and those of the limbs are made flexible, so that if it falls they may bend and not break.

We see daily some new development of wonderful powers and faculties in every new-born infant.  An infant has a natural and instinctive desire to exercise its limbs, its voice, and indeed all its bodily functions.  How soon it begins to laugh and coo like a little dove, to show you that it is social in its disposition, asking for your sympathy in return.

It is curious and interesting to watch a young child when it first opens its eyes upon the light of day or the light of a candle.  With what evident satisfaction does it slowly open and close its eyelids, so adapted—­to say nothing of the wonderful mechanism of the eye itself—­to let in sufficient light to gratify desire, or to shut out every ray that would prove injurious to the untried organs.