the art of teaching. This is indeed true; but those parents who can bring themselves to banish their children from home are not likely to be very scrupulous about any other method. It must be admitted, however, that it is scarcely possible to find a domestic tutor or governess who understand their business. Governesses are generally of indolent habits, and morbid ill-regulated feelings, who seek that situation because it gives them less trouble than manual labour. A specimen of the kind was lately set forth in an advertisement in the Record newspaper, which is here subjoined, with the comment of a very affectionate and anxious mother:

"WANTS a SITUATION, as GOVERNESS in a religious family, a lady, whose sole motive in desiring the above is a sphere of usefulness, and an increase of religious privileges. She is capable of grounding her pupils in the essential points of education, combining, with a thorough knowledge of their own language, a general summary of history and geography, and would take them for the first year into French and music. A highly respectable

reference can be given to a lady she has recently left."

That is, for doing that which can be done by any femme-de-chambre; she, who, as she shows, is unable to write her own language grammatically, will incur to the parents a cost of at least one hundred pounds per annum in board, accommodation, journeys, sickness, washing, &c., &c., besides salary: upset all former plans with the children, without having one of her own; write cross-barred letters every day, while they are at their lessons, to all her female acquaintance, complaining of everything she eats, sees, and hears; be an obstacle to all family conversation and confidential intercourse between those of whom she knows nothing, or think herself neglected; uninformed in mind, and idle and high in habits, who avows that her sole motive is, not to do her duty towards the children, nor to render back service for what she receives from her employer, but an increase of religious privileges; that is, gossip about preachers and societies. This is too accurate a description of the generality

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of those who write such advertisements as that above. On the other hand, anxious parents require more from persons in the situation of governesses than is to be found combined in any human beings. In all cases it should be remembered that the good in every character has its corresponding evil. Where strength of mind prevails, we may expect want of tenderness, and coarseness: where there is delicacy of feeling, we must lay our account for morbid sensitiveness and irritability. Moreover, their situation is anomalous ; they are neither equals nor inferiors, and yet are both; while the unfeeling treatment they receive in some, and are liable to receive in all families, makes them suspect want of kindness where it is never intended.

Before quitting the subject of the constitution of parent and child, it may be well to point out another spiritual truth which is portrayed by it. The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and its attendant blessedness to the whole creation, is represented by the figure of a woman bringing forth a child, John xvi. 16-22; Jer. xxx. 6-9; Isa. lxvi.

5-10. The present dispensation, therefore, is analogous to the life of a child in the womb; alive, indeed, with all the properties and faculties of a man, but undeveloped; a life hidden, and not seen; and its future manifestation apparent only to faith; receiving all its circulation and nourishment from her within whose life its own is involved, and only to be produced by the most violent throes which nature can endure. In this state lies the whole mystical man-child, Christ, or the invisible Church; and its type, or outward sign and representative to the world, the Jewish nation. But this is by the way.

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CHAPTER III.

THE next relationship is that of MASTER and SERVANT, which, though primarily referable to the inmates of the same house, is equally applicable to every situation where degrees of superior and inferior are found; the responsibility of it is commensurate with the extent of the superior's jurisdiction; be it over one household servant; or over a number of agricultural labourers; or over a body of manufacturers; or over a regiment of soldiers; or over a ship full of sailors; or over a province; or over a kingdom. "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, AS UNTO CHRIST. Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the SERVANTS OF CHRIST, doing the will of God