would remove this deep-rooted, universal curse. I saw a friend driving a span of · splendid bays. I asked him what they cost him. "Eighteen thousand dollars." "Why, how is that?" "Well, when I sold my old horses and bought these, my harnesses and carriage did not correspond: bought new. Then my barn was too shabby for such a team built new. Then my house was too poor beside my barn; so I built a new house. Then the old furniture would not do. So, altogether, my span has cost me eighteen thousand dollars." This only illustrates the general principle which runs through every item of expenditure in social life.

But fathers, husbands, pardon me, for in the moneyed aspects of the case, I have neglected these purer, holier, more tender relations recognized in the very names by which I address you.

O father, those lovely daughters, whose smiles are sunshine to thy burdened spirit, and whose light-hearted gleefulness drives dull care away, those daughters are even now exposed to the fearful evils which have been depicted in the foregoing pages. Whether they realize it or not, they have a right to

demand protection from your hands. Yea, their very loveliness does plead for your jealous watchcare, as only the tender endearments of such relations can plead. And you, doting husband, would you save the gentle disposition of your loving wife from being soured and spoiled, then assist her in the battle against this omnipresent evil. For rest assured that she will need your word of approval and encouragement.

To philanthropists of every class the subject appeals with an earnestness of utterance intensified by its neglect.

The development of other evils may be more glaring, and hence may attract most of your attention. But this is all the more dangerous, because so secret and unsuspected. Do you believe the conclusions established in this book? Then, in the name of humanity, bestir yourselves. Strike at the root. Sound the tocsin of alarm. Arm an exterminating crusade. Down with the foe of our hearthstones, our hearts, and our souls.

The woman who is not by very nature a philanthropist is an unnatural creation. Here, then, in making our appeal, we expect an audience. O ye who bear the blessed

name of mother, listen while we plead. One who responded to that call once knelt with her little boy in prayer. Ere he had seeu his eighth summer she died. But in after life her pure spirit watched over him, and at last led him to the cross. He became a minister, and by his labors Claudius Buchanan, one of the apostles of missionary effort in India, and the instrument of awakening Judson to the wants of India, was converted. Scott, the commentator, and Wilberforce, the champion of African freedom, and the author of that "Practical View of Christianity," which made Legh Richmond a christian, were both led to Christ by him. That boy was the Rev. John Newton, and that young matron, whose early efforts thus gloriously prospered, was his mother. Mark here the workings of that great law of interinfluence to which we have so often alluded.

In 1798, a vessel bound to sea was detained near the Isle of Wight by a change of wind. The Rev. Mr. Crabb, a Wesleyan chaplain, went on shore, and preached from the text, "Be ye clothed with humility." It was the word of life to Elizabeth Walbridge, the "Dairyman's Daughter." Legh Richmond

wrote her memoirs, and they have been instrumental in saving hundreds, beside raising up three entire churches in Armenia. And still the work goes on. O what a result from a mother's prayers!

Shall it be said

Mother, behold thy influence, and remember it is equally as potent for evil as for good. The Jewish mothers sacrificed their jewelry for the temple at Jerusalem. Even the heathen women of Ephesus gave their ornaments for a temple to Diana. that you love Christ less? purposes of infinite mercy want of woman's sympathy? Shall this habit of adornment, the foundation of all worldly conformity, be suffered to spread itself abroad. for want of your efforts?

Shall the noble

be defeated for

If these considerations do not move you, at least for the sake of self-preservation, arouse yourselves from this stupor. Can you, dare you, face the responsibilities of life with such a sin eating away your piety, destroying your self-respect, and ruining you for the future? You may say you can not believe so many good christians would indulge in the practice if it is such a sin. But this is begging the question. It is making the

single fact of their inconsistency a sufficient rejoinder to all the evidence that has been adduced, as well as overlooking the fact that there have been in darker days rum-drinking christians and patriarchal polygamists. But now the light shineth, and if now you trim to the world you deliberately balance probabilities of eternal ruin, and invoke the doom of those against whom Sodom and the queen of the south shall arise in judgment, for sinning in greater light and against greater grace.

Beside all this, if not convinced now, no power of logic and no array of facts would convince you. Few doctrines of your creed, whatever it be, have ever been presented to your mind with an equal amount of evidence. And the mental injury which must result from a willful blindness to such testimony can scarcely be appreciated.

Surely, the young, the lovely, the sympathizing will not deny their aid. Especially the young christian, in the fervor of first love, will not refuse to sacrifice for Christ.

Now look upon the sin. It squanders the means; misspends the time; perverts the judgment; cultivates selfishness; corrupts the will;