a mournful picture, and calculated to call forth every feeling of Christian sympathy, and awaken a burning zeal for the honor and glory of God.  O, think how Jesus is dishonored by his own people, who thus disregard his last parting request!  But here again you may inquire, “What can I do?” You can do much more than most people think they can do.  Although you may not be permitted to go to the heathen yourself, yet you can help those that do go.  I know that your means are limited; yet there are many ways in which you can do much for this cause with little means.  By regulating all your expenses by Christian principle, you may save much, even of a small income, for benevolent purposes.  But you may also exert an influence upon others.  In all your intercourse with other Christians, especially ladies, you may stir up a missionary spirit.  To aid you in this, become acquainted with what has been done, and what is now doing, for the conversion of the heathen.  Make yourself familiar with the arguments in favor of this holy cause.  By this means, you may become a zealous and successful advocate of the claims of five hundred millions of perishing heathen.  As an opportunity occurs once a month for all to contribute to this cause, you know not what effect such efforts may have upon the purses of those whom God has blessed with an abundance of the good things of this life.  Again; you may do much for the heathen, by forming a missionary association among the ladies where you reside.  Let such an association employ their needless half a day in every week, and apply the avails of their labor to the missionary cause.  This would enable every one to contribute something for sending the gospel to the heathen.  But this is not all the benefit that would flow from it.  Some member of the association should be appointed to read missionary intelligence, while the rest labor with their hands.  This will be the means of exciting a missionary spirit, which may result in a much greater benefit than the amount of money contributed by the society.  Another advantage of this plan is, that it furnishes an opportunity of social intercourse, with a great saving of time.  Here you may meet your friends once a week, without being exposed to the dissipating influence of parties of pleasure.  There is a little Sabbath-school book, published in Boston, entitled “Louisa Palston,” which ought to be in the hands of every young lady.  It presents the subject of missions to the heathen in a most interesting light, and also contains an excellent example of an association of the kind here recommended.

IV. You can make your influence felt in behalf of the poor. By frequenting the abodes of poverty and distress, you may administer to the wants of the afflicted, and call into active exercise the feelings of Christian sympathy in your own bosom.  By this means, also, you will be prepared to enlist others in the same cause.  Female benevolent societies, for assisting the poor, should be formed in all large towns; and in most places, much good may be done by forming societies for clothing poor children, to enable them to attend Sabbath-schools.  But perhaps there is no way in which you can do so much for the poor, as by assisting them with your own hands, in their afflictions, and aiding them by your advice.  Be careful, however, that you do not make them feel that you are conferring an obligation.