this country for the better education of women. Her energy, enthusiasm, and strong intellect exerted a powerful effect upon the public. She lived to see, due largely to her own efforts, a complete reversal of the general ideas regarding the training of women.

ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,

For Thou, O Lord! hast power to save.
I know Thou wilt not slight my call,
For Thou dost mark the sparrow's fall,
And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.

And such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept o'er the brine,
Or though the tempest's fiery breath
Roused me from sleep to wreck and death.
In ocean cave still safe with Thee,

The germ of immortality!

And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.

GREECE.

Greece has been not only physically but morally wounded. The vile system of the Arabian deceiver has surrounded her on almost every hand. What circumstance

could occur so likely to make way for the destruction of that abominable superstition, as to impart dignity,- the elevation of moral and intellectual worth, to women beyond its reach but within its observation? and is it to be expected that they might derive from American women as well as from any other the frame work of such a character? If this can be made to appear; then will be shown an added obligation in us, to send to the daughters of fallen Greece, the blessings of such an education.

TO-DAY.

Even

The human mind will wander to future times. the votary of pleasure, who tells us to "pluck the fresh flowret ere it close," though he thinks his motto is present enjoyment, yet unconsciously he mingles a bitter foreboding which destroys the very essence of joy. "Let us haste (he says) for the flowret will soon wither - the roses soon fade. Let music sound and let us laugh loud, that we need not think of death. Ay, turn away from that open grave. Speak not of the approach of the pestilential cholera. Quick! quick! let us gather the roses, lest the next moment they are blighted for ever!" Is this the spirit of happiness? Is it for this, that we should exchange that desire of doing good, and that willingness to communicate, which flows from a pious heart, as a fresh stream from a rolling fountain? Is it for this, that we are to hold fast for ourselves and our families all that we have or can acquire? Forbid it, gracious Saviour! Thou that didst divest thyself of heaven's glory, and for those who loved thee not wore the garb of poverty and reproach, forbid that those who call themselves by thy name of infinite benevolence and wisdom, should thus be guilty of selfishness and folly! what if the good we undertake be for the distant and the future? when our souls are free, no longer bound to a clod that gravitates to the earth, these things will be neither distant nor future. In the regions where immortal spirits hold blessed communion, we may meet with those, who perchance are led thither by means to which we have been instrumental; and with them look down with joy upon the good which

is maturing upon earth- the souls that are ripening for heaven.

WHAT TO TEACH.

What is the best of all possible things to be taught? MORAL GOODNESS. That respects GoD and man; God first, and man second. To infuse into the mind of a child, therefore fove and fear towards God - the perfect — in wisdom, goodness, justice and power, the Creator, Benefactor, and Saviour, the secret Witness and the Judge this is of all teaching the very best. But it cannot be accomplished, merely in set times and by set phrases; it should mingle in all the teacher's desires and actions. The child imbibes it when he sees that the instructor feels and acts on it himself. When the youth is untruthful, when he wounds his companion in body-in mind in character or in property, then show him that his offence is against God; that you are God's ministers to enforce his laws, and must do your duty. Be thus mindful in all sincerity, judge correctly, adopt no subterfuge pretend not to think the child is better than he is, but deal plainly and truly, though lovingly with him; then his moral approbation will go with you, though it should be against himself, and even if circumstances require you to punish him. The voice of conscience residing in his heart is as the voice of God; and if you invariably interpret that voice with correctness and truth, the child will submit and obey you naturally and affectionately. But if your government is unjust or capricious, if you punish one day, what you pass over or approve another, the dissatisfied child will naturally rebel.

Next to moral goodness is HEALTH AND STRENGTH, soundness of body and of mind. This like the former is not what can be taught at set times, and in set phrases; but it must never be lost sight of. It must regulate the measure and the kind of exercise required of the child, both bodily and mental, as well as his diet, air and accommodations. The regular routine of school duties consists in teaching acts for the practice of future life; or sciences in which the useful or ornamental arts find their first principles; and great skill is required of the teacher

in assigning to each pupil an order of studies suitable to his age, and then selecting such books and modes of teaching as shall make a little time go far.

CARE OF HEALTH.-TO YOUNG LADIES.

When I am speaking to young girls (the Lord bless and keep them), I am in my proper element. Why should it be otherwise? I have had five thousand under my charge, and spent thirty years of my life devoted to their service; and the general reader will excuse me if I add some further advice to them, which the light of this theory will show to be good. If it is so, others may have its benefit as well as they, but it is most natural to me to address myself to them.

Would you, my dear young ladies, do the will of God on earth by being useful to your fellow-beings? Take care of health. Would you enjoy life? Take care of health; for without it, existence is, for every purpose of enjoyment, worse than a blank. No matter how much wealth or how many luxuries you can command, there is no enjoyment without health. To an aching head what is a downy pillow with silken curtains floating above? What is the cushioned landau and the gardened landscape to her whose disordered lungs can no longer receive the inspirations of an ordinary atmosphere? And what are books, music, and paintings to her whose nervous sufferings give disease to her senses, and agony to her frame?

Would you smooth for your tender parents the pillow of declining life? Take care of health. And does the "prophetic pencil" sometimes trace the form of one whose name perhaps is now unknown, who shall hereafter devote to you a manly and generous heart, and marriage sanction the bond? Would you be a blessing to such a one? then now take care of your health: or if you hesitate, let imagination go still further. Fancy yourself feeble as with untimely age, clad in vestments of sorrow, and leaving a childless home to walk forth with him to the church-yard, there to weep over your buried offspring. Study then to know your frame that you may, before it

is too late, pursue such a course as will secure to you a sound and vigorous constitution.

OF THE FORCE THAT MOVES THE BLOOD.

When the circulation is our life, it behoves us to consider well its causes, that we may aid reason to instinct in its healthful preservation. That the blood travels through the system by its own volition, none believe; but that it is an inert mass which will only move as it is moved. What then are the forces which move inert bodies? Are there any which may not be resolved into one of these three, impulse, gravitation, and heat; of which the latter has the greater range in point of degree, being in the expansion of a fluid from warm to warmer, the most gentle of all imaginable forces, while in other states it is the most powerful of any known to man. It is then to one or more of these forces that we must look for the motive powers which produce the circulation. And the human circulation has peculiar difficulties to encounter. Man does not enjoy his noble erect position, without some countervailing disadvantages. The long upright column of his blood spreading at its base, presents no trifling force to be moved. And this force is to be overcome by means so gentle that the mind, the dweller in this house of clay, shall not be disturbed by its operations. Again: the parts of the body are to be used by the mind as instruments, and ten thousand different motions are to be performed at its bidding. What but Almighty Wisdom could have effected these several objects? And is it not most reasonable to suppose that this wisdom would assign for these purposes not any one of the forces which move matter, but combine them all? Gravitation by itself cannot produce a circulation by any machinery. Impulse alone could not carry on a circulation without existing in such an excessive degree that it must disturb the mind and endanger the body. But heat, the antagonist force of gravitation, by the lessening or increasing of the maximum and minimum difference, can operate more or less forcibly as occasion requires, and at the same time so gently and so quietly, that the mind shall take no cognizance of its