The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

SELF-CULTURE. 181
" In the path of social 1 fe
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul ! Ay, till its healthful frame
Is changed to secret, festering, &ore disease,
So deadly is the wound."
Others, again, lack modesty, or sincerity, or purity
of spirit. They are bold, false, ignorant and disgusting.
On the other hand, there stand those
women who are the models of their sex. Refined in
feeling, pure in heart, gentle in
manner, of noble and
exalted minds, they command the admiration and
secure the love of all beholders. They are lovely
images of the divine ideal of woman ;
their character
is the offspring of that sacred seed whose ripened
fruit is a complete resemblance to Him who is the
model ot all human perfection.
All these women were substantially the same
when as yet they lay cradled in maternal arms.
Whence the difference in the years of their maturity
? It lies in the diversity of their culture. AV hilo
one class carefully repelled every evil motion of their
spirits, and studiously cherished every desire for
good, the other left the seed of good neglected, per-