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Let religion create the atmosphere around a woman's spirit and breathe
its life into her heart; refine her affections, sanctify her intellect,
elevate her aims and hallow her physical beauty, and she is, indeed, to
our race, of all the gifts of time, the last and best, the crown of our
glory, the perfection of our life.
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PROMISES.
"And though to his own hurt he swears,
Still he performs his word."
I was yet a boy, when one day a gentleman came into the lot where my
father was superintending the in-gathering of his hay crop, and
addressing himself to a mower in my father's employment, inquired
whether he would assist him the following day. He replied, "Yes." "How
is this," said my father; "are you not engaged to mow for me?" "O yes,"
said the man. "Why, then," continued my father, "do you promise to mow
for Gen. K----?" "Why," said the man, "I wish to oblige him; I love to
oblige everybody." "And so," said my father, "you are willing to incur
the guilt of falsehood, for you cannot perform your promise to him and
myself, and in the end you must disappoint one of us; and, maybe,
seriously injure our interests and your reputation."
Nothing, surely, is more common, it is believed, than this heedless
manner of making promises which cannot be fulfilled.
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