The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

52 THE YOUNG LADY's COUNSELLOR.
tensely pained by the discords it utters, it nevertheless
continually produces them. It requires tuning
therefore, or it must be a self-tormenting thing o*
discords forever— magnificent in its construction, glorious
in its powers, yet failing to attain the sublime
end of its creation. To drop my comparison, the
mind is unable of itself to develop those qualitiefj
which are necessary to its own enjoyment, and to its
right influence over others. And nothing less than
the power of religion can repress its evil tendencies,
and develop its superior qualities. As the tuner of
instruments may justly say of the piano, " without
me it is nothing," so does Christ actually say to
you, lady, "without me ye can do nothing."
Christ,
and Christ alone, is sufficient to clothe you with that
loveliness of moral character which will cause your
life to pass happily to yourself and to be beneficial to
others. How else can your life be
" A sacred stream.
In whose calm depths the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored " ?
How else can you acquire that guileless ingenu-