The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

LOVELINESS OF SPIRIT. 121
disgusting deformities and deadly results
Keep the
chambers of your soul clean and unpolluted. But
every pure emotion and generous sentiment you
must sedulously cultivate and foster, with peasevermg
care. Breathe a kindly feeling for all. Desire
to impart a pleasure to all with whom you meet.
Live to scatter flowers of joy in every path you
tread. — to be a golden beam of soft and mellow
lifi-ht in every home you visit. Aim to move as a
loving seraph in every circle. Thus animated by
inward emotions and purposes, your outward life and
actions will shine with softened lustre upon all.
You will sway a sceptre of hallowed power over
many hearts ; and, while you "draw to yourself the
iove of others, as the diamond drinks up the sun's
rays, only to return them in tenfold strength and
beauty," you will put on charms which " no beauty
of known things, nor imagination of the unknown,
can aspire to emulate. You will shine in colors
purer and brighter than pearl or diamond or prism
can reflect. Arabian gardens, in their bloom, can
txhale no such sweetness as a lovely spirit diffuses."