If you look up into yonder firmament with your
naked eye, the astronomer will point you to a star which shines down
upon you single in rays of pure liquid light. But if you will ascend yon
eminence and direct towards it that magnificent instrument which modern
science has brought to such perfection of power, the same star will
suddenly resolve itself into two beautiful luminaries, equal in
brilliancy, equal in all stellar excellence, emitting rays of different
and intensely vivid hues, yet so exactly correspondent to each other,
and so embracing each other, and so mingling their various colors as to
pour upon the unaided vision the pure, sparkling light of a single orb.
So is it with man and woman. Created twofold, equal in all human
attributes, excellence and influence, different but correspondent, to
the eye of Jehovah the harmony of their union in life is perfect, and
as one complete being that life streams forth in rays of light and
influence upon society.
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A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
The following letter, addressed to a mutual friend, we rescue from
oblivion, containing as it does a lesson for husbands and wives, and
most gracefully conveyed.
_We_ shall certainly be pardoned if we take a more than ordinary
interest to preserve a memento of that "_hanging garden_," as for months
it was as fully seen from our own window as from that of the writer,
though a little more remote, yet near enough to feast our eyes, and by
its morning fragrance to cause our hearts to render more grateful
incense to Him who clothes the lily with such beauty, and gives to the
rose its sweet perfume.
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