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326 SKETCHES.
this our North is to him nothing else than a long, bleak,
autumn day. My dear child, create a spring in your home.”
“And do not forget the flowers, my little Flora,” said
Helena, —“your singing, your music, your painting; in a
word, your talents are the flowers which you must care-
fully tend, to decorate with them the altar of your home.”
“ And then,’ said Amelia, “I can predict that a little
god, who thrives well amongst flowers and spring, will
come and build his nest in your home: guess what he is
called ?
Emma did not by any means look stupid.
“ Above all, my dear girl,” Helena went on to admonish
with gentle but deep earnestness, “lay one thing on your
heart, the only one necessary. Think, think often, of Him
who gave thee here on earth a mission to fulfill and talents
to improve. Life is changing in all its stages; greatness
and lowliness, enjoyment and pain, relieve each other in
turn; if in these changes we have nothing to lean upon,
we shall be tossed about like a reed in the wind, and this
support we have only in an enlightened and sincere fear of
God. Pray every day to Him, in whom alone is light, this
prayer so full of wisdom: ‘Enlighten our understanding
in Thy knowledge, and teach our hearts to make Thee an
offering of true obedience !’”
“Then,” said Amelia, “you shall in your walk through
life, in all your actions, be able to maintain that order, that
loving spirit, full of truth and peace, without which a
woman never can properly fulfill her beautiful mission on _
earth. Your husband will then lean upon you with full
confidence, in joy as well as in affliction, and all those who
surround you will, through you, reverence and love true
Christian virtue. In success you will not then become
proud and overbearing.”
“ And in adversity,” continued Helena, “you will not
allow yourself to be crushed, but have hope, and forget
‘yourself in order to comfort others.”
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