The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

LOVELINESS OF SPIRIT. 105
self-control, in sincerity, in genuine meekness, your
oveliness, like a coating of gold upon a counterfeit
coin, will disappear before all who behold you in
contact with the realities of life.
Genuine loveliness
is the effulgence of sublime virtue ; it is a soft and
mellow lio:ht, diffu:^* j a delicious radiance over the
entire character, and investing its possessor with a
halo of indefinable beauty. It is the " fresh ripple
from deep fountains " of inborn love. It is the gentle
dew descending from the clear heaven of a pure
and lofty mind — the mystic charm that " pleases all
around, from the wish to please."
Permit me to lead you to what may appear an
unlikely spot to learn much of the power of loveliness
— to the cell of a maniac. Behold his furious
ravings at our approach ! Mark his wild and terrifying
expression ! How
fearful a thing is madness !
But see !
Here is a beautiful child, just able to talk.
She holds a rosy apple in her tiny fingers, and with
timid steps is approaching the grating of the celL
Placing the apple between two bars, she addresses
the maniac in the soft and musical voice of child-