The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

44 THE YOCJNG lady's COJNSELLOR.
to be wretched, whether yuur home be the palace of a
merchant prince, or the cottage of a toiling peasant
To a religious faith, therefore, are y-u shut up.
Tii«
point before you is as plain as a self-evident truth °
you must be wretched or religious. Embrace the
faith
of Christ, and forthwith a confidence wnll sprinf>
up in your soul which will disarm life of its terrors,
enable you to defy its emergencies, assure you that all
chance is excluded from the government of the world,
that your interests are all safe in the hands of the
infinite
God, whose attributes are pledged to promote
your safety. You will then see Omnipotence as the
wall built around you ;
infinite resources ready to be
employed in your behalf, and boundless love distributing
the mercies requisite to supply your necessities.
Blessed with this sublime trust, you will walk the
ways of life as calmly as the ideal pilgrim, in the
picture of a German artist, whose beautiful
painting'
contained a lovely child walking
slowly along a narrow
path, bounded on each side by a lerrific precipice,
the edges of which were concealed from him by