REBEKAH. Taking a wife. Visit to Mesopotamia. Themis- tocles. Strange courtship. Marriage-the place. Twin brothers. The sad deception. Woman on the stage. Ex- traordinary pair in Germany. Berzelius. Barrow. Milton. RACHEL. Bramante. Raphael. Michael Angelo. The flight of Jacob. Leah. Serving for a wife. The country of Laban. Fancy marriages. Parlor and kitchen. A disappointment. RUTH. Naomi. Rural habits. A whole family. A broken family. Going to Moab. Orpah. Contrast. Naomi's ex- postulation. Arrival at Bethlehem. Charities of life. Boaz. Courtship. Strange custom. Loosing of the shoe. Develop- HANNAH. Shiloh. Sorrowful woman. Cause of joy. A praying mother. Richard Knill. Bishop Hall. John Q. Adams. Cowper. Dr. Young. The old woman. Serious considerations. Daniel Webster. A mother's grave. QUEEN OF SHEBA. Solomon. Extravagance. Party in Phila- delphia. Italian circles. Educating daughters. Female education to embrace scientific researches. Political economy. Religion. Religion contributes to grace of person· bility of manners- to human happiness-to eternal life. ABIGAIL. The drunkard's wife - her lovely spirit - her supe- rior character-her disappointment-her disgrace - her SARAI AND HAGAR. Early institutions. Family relations. Early bondage. Polygamy. The rival wives. Abraham in Egypt. The deception. A diseased race. Sin per se. The first woe in the family. Cruel treatment of Hagar. Mor- DORCAS-her life-death-resuscitation. Mrs. Newell. Mrs. Judson. Value of a letter. Self-denial. Bunyan's wife. Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Tracy. Florence Nightingale. Bettina. Lucretia Mott. Dorothea Dix. Elizabeth Fry. Mrs. Win- throp. Rebecca Eaton. Consecrated wealth. Sanctified tal- ents. Usefulness in humble life. Sisters of St. Vincent de SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN. GEN. 2: 23. THIS earth which we inhabit has rising from its surface some towering mountain peaks, now ranged in order, like the rocky ridges of the west, and now standing alone, like Etna or Vesuvius. For ages these mountains have stood look ing down upon the plains below, smiling or frowning on the world, which holds the even tenor of its way in the wooded forests and fertile valleys of the earth. There are vast plains which men have never trod; there are vast forests, wide deserts, which have seldom been mentioned, and when mentioned are not remembered. But the towering mountains are known, and are remembered. Sinai, Ararat, Carmel, Horeb, Zion, and Calvary can never be forgotten. Their moral grandeur rises higher than their physical elevation, and they stood before the ages as the summits from which God has spoken. And so with meaner mountains around which cluster no sacred memories. What Scotchman that has ever seen old Ben Lomond towering over the Loch has ever forgotten it? What Swiss peasant, wherever he has wandered and in whatever clime he has died, has ever forgotten Mont Blanc, the monarch of mountains? What mountains are to the surface of the globe, exalted character is to human society. Stretching away back through society are characters rising from the dull monotony of level life that can never be forgotten. They dot the record of ages as mountains dot and diversify the world of nature. There are but few of them, but the few are immortal. The mass the thou |