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From the Southern Christian Advocate. FAMILY GOVERNMENT, by Tin: rf!v. bishop Andrew. [Continued.] •Hr, it you please, take another ease, which is not by any means a fancy pic ture.^ I have seen a young man, reared ni respectability, niirtiired iii the lap of piety. During all liis youth, he was in dustrious, sober, temperate, and entirely “amiable. Ills phreuts regarded liim with honest pride, arid his sisters loved to call him brother. lie was looked upon by his vmUliful associates, with respect and ad miration; all loved him, and all praised him, and His friends supposed that he had crown ed his earthlt' bliss when lie led to the al tar a lovely and accomplished bride. But whence is it that ho so early gives evidence I hat a strange change has come over the spi rit of hts dream? VV by is it that his home has lost its charms? Why do his feet wander in the way of forbidden jdeasilreS? Why is his eve red, and hjs^countenance bloat ed? Why does the midnight hour find liiin so often the companion of bacchana lian revellers, and why so sQpn laid in a drunkard’s grave? 1 answer, he was mis taken! He Had wedded a lovely form, but if. enshrined the temper of a demon. He iiad staked his all of hope and peace and comfort on this union, aiid all is lost, arid liis soul has perished in the wreck. In con ylusioif, on this point, we say to our young friends, he sure to many, hut takh very special care whom you marry. Are you seeking a wife? Look well to her tem pers, her tastes, her habits. Let her be - discreet, good-tempered, sober in her con versation, prudent in her associations, in _duIfrfousTri Her habitsyan obedfeftt daugh; ter, nri affectionate sister, orie who can find* ampleenjfty meiitat home, and is not depen rtartt for happiness on company or fashion, cither as to its wardrobe or public,amuse merits; one wild is not always seeking af ter, or delighted with, the flatteries of the other sex; one who is much more anxious to deserve commendation than to receive it, And finally, and above all, let her be unT affectedly and Habitually pious. I would not (said one wlio was riot hiiriself pious) rriarry any woman who was not a Chris tian I should feel it such an honour to share a heart in which Clod dwelt. It was a fine thought, and deserves to be special ly remembered. j rYou want a friend in whom you can | Have entire and unlimited confidence; one who can be your counseller in all circum stances of difficulty.or trial; one who is to he identified with you through life, in Hope and fear, in joy arid sorrow. She is to be a sort of presiding diviriity at thy fami ly hoard, and her countenance the mir ror in which must be reflected the faithful iniage of thy domestic bliss or wo; one who will be discreet, affectionate and firm in governing her children; in short, who will love you for your own sake, be hap py with you in a cabin, and who will cleave the closer to you when storms ol adversity or persecution shall have swept away or withered every vestige of.earthly comfort from about you. Now beat all these things in mind, and then to your prayers and the exercise of a becoming prudence, and you will not be likely to fail. To my fair friends a wprd of( advice arid admonition. First of all, lend no ear to the wooing of him who is an unbeliever or a skeptic oh the subject of religion. The Bible" is the great charter of woman’s rights, yi'here this book is not known, she is a slave. Its influence exalts hef to the proper station, and the rhari who, iri this land of light and vision, can impudent ly question the authorityof this the greal and only charter of youf fTghtsV
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