The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

26 THE YOUNG LADY'S COUNSELLOR.
less of all danger, had a soul in harmony with the
storm, and could enjoy its terrors ; while others
anable to perceive the sublime and beautiful, through
fear of the terrible which surrounded it, beheld aad
trembled, A striking illustration this, you now perceive,
of the truth, that things without the mind bless
or curse it only as that mind is predisposed. If
fearful, and alive only to the terrible, it will tremble;
if bold, and sensitive to what is sublime and beautiful,
it will be delighted.
The mind has a similar power to determine the
influence which its condition in social life shall exert
upon it. The most abject poverty cannot compel it
to be unhappy ; the most favorable state in life cannot
insure its pleasure. Upon itself alone depends
the power of circumstance to embitter or to charm.
Let it be at peace with itself, loving the pure and
Aovely, living on rational and cheerful hopes, and, as
the poet said of a mind animated by hope,
" Hope, — the sweet bird, — while that the air can fill,
Let earth be ice — the soul has summer still."
Are you in doubt concerning the possibility of