The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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IJ2 THE Yor'NG LADi''S COUNSELLOR.
deeds of brother, father, husband or son, your name
is to be writ in the affections of posterity. Seek,
therefore, and seek earnestly, after a lovely spirit
Find it, and you will be enthroned queen of the
sphere in
which you move.
The citizens of ancient Rome were accustomed
to
place the images of their great ancestors in the vestibulec
of their houses. These venerable busts constantly
met their eyes, and reminded them of the
glorious actions of the dead. They were thus
prompted to imitate the heroic examples of their
illustrious fathers, and to
transmit a worthy name to
posterity. The idea was certainly a noble one, and
was, to some extent, .successful. It created a pride
of character, which led to noble deeds, in a long li'ie
of glorious Romans, through many ages of that
gigantic commonwealth.
This fact recognizes a great truth, which has an
important bearing on the subject of power over
other
minds. It teaches the depth and practical results of
oft-repeated impressions. Those marblo busts, cold
and lifeless as they were, repeated their silent les*