The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

THE YOUNG LADY AT HOME 201
y from your mother ; consult them concerning your
plans, studies, amusements, and friends ; relieve
your mother as much as possible, by rendering her
assistance in household labors to the very limit of
your ability ; never permit yourself to be disagreeable
or resentful to your brothers and sisters, and
study to find your own pleasure in promoting the
happiness of the family circle. Thus will filial
aflfection grow strong and beautiful in your soul.
Vour home will be sweet and delightful. Your
parents will rejoice over you, as an olive plant of
valued loveliness, and you will be fitted to make
those heroic sacrifices, if the exigency should ever
occur, which have immortalized the names of Ruth,
of Elizabeth the exile's daughter, of Sombreuil's
child, and of other illustrious women.
Your Creator
will also hold you in remembrance for your fidelity
to filial obligations. God loves a faithful child, and
has condescended to incorporate his high regard for
such in the commandment •' with promise " "
: Honor
thy father and mother, that thy days may he long
in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."