The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

228 THE YOUNG LADY'S COUNSELLOR.
ness embarrasses her action, and
points her out as a
suitable person to be beguiled. On the contrary, if
she knows her destination, she moves with confi
dence and ease ; the vile dare not molest her if she
acts with common prudence, and she is comparative
ly safe ; though it is my opinion that unless she
has gained experience by first
travelling in company
with others, a young lady ought not to travel alone,
unless circumstances make it her absolute duty. In
such a case, her safety must be secured by proper
orecaution and demeanor, and by a fitting trust in
jrod, as htr almighty protector and guardian.
Did you ever study that picture of the royal Hebrew
melodist, which, with seeming unconsciousness,
he drew of himself, in the third psalm ? Absalom,
his ingrate son, had driven
him from his throne, and
compelled him to maintain his kingly and paternal
rights by an appeal to the sword. By various acts
he had also succeeded in winning thousands of tlie
bravest sons of Judah to join the standard of revolt.
The weary old warrior was thsreby placed in ax
tremely perilous circumstances. He was a fugitive