The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

THE yOUNG LADY FROM HOME. 225
m the following lines, which I quote for your caieful
study.
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'T is a fond, yet a fegrful thing to rule
O'er the opening min i in a Sabbath-school.
Like, wax, ye can mo ild it in the form ye will;
What ye write on the tablet remains there still :
And an angel's work is not more high
Than aiding to form one's destiny."
The distribution of tracts, visiting the sick poor,
aiding to sustain seamen's bethels and homes, and
all kindred tasks, are also admirable spheres of
benevolent action. Only be careful of associations
of ultra reformers, — of men and women who decry
ail existing good, in their blind devotion to a particL
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lar idea. Such persons are like hunters, who, lo
capture a wicked fox, will trample down a field of
valuable wheat, — and these pseudo reformers, in
li^e manner, while aiming at a good end, do immense
mischief in the attempt; and the amount of
jrood they accomplish is very insignificant. Beware
of such spirits! Cleave to those institutioxis which
are sanctioned by the church of the living God,
^or must you suffer your zeal for society to lead