The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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THE TRUE SPHERE OF WOMAN. 87
face is suffused with blushes, as she coni isedly lays
aside her dusting-brush, and offers her hand to the
minister, saying, " Sir, 1 am ashamed you should
find me thus."
" Let Christ, when he cometh, find me so doing,"
replies her pastor.
" What, sir ! do you wish to be found in this empioyment?"
earnestly inquires the astonished lady.
" Yes, madam, I wish to be found faithfully performing
the duties of my mission, as I have found
you fulfilling
yours."
And was not the minister right ? He recognized
a great, but a despised truth. He saw as high a
moral importance in the humble task of the lady as in
the missions of Gabriel to the ancient prophets : for
both did the will of
God in their respective spheres
and diversity of sphere does not necessarily involve
real inferiority in the employment.
The lady in her
home could exhibit an affection as true, and an obedience
as sincere, as the angel in his sphere. It
would V>e difficult to show wherein her employment
*as morally and necessarily inferior to his, inasmuch