bodies in subjection," and making them "meet temples for the residence of the Holy Ghost?" Shall parents never know the inestimable value of the immortal gem—the mind—and how to polish it for usefulness here, and eternal lustre in the skies? Yes! the millennium will never burst upon us in all its full glories while we are in the midst of slaying, surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the broth of abominable things is found in our vessels."
"The assembling by troops in the harlots' houses must cease—yet never will—while the riotous eating of flesh" continues,
"Whoso readeth, let him understand."
The grand difficulty in the work of moral reform is, we do not search out first causes. We find the stream bitter; we throw in the purifying medicine;—the next rolling wave from the muddy fountain swallows it up, and all is swept together to the ocean of perdition, and lost for ever.
And here shall end the first lesson, after quoting the words of Mr. Graham; and may they cause every house-keeper's ears to tingle till she has experimentally proved them: "Woman is never more dignified, than when she is making good bread for her husband and children. Then is she spreading health and content in her little circle, and scattering bounties with a liberal hand."
It has been suggested, since this work was prepared for press, that, could the diet, and regimen,
