hint at one of them; and leave it to your hearts, to pray over and practise. When all the worst was done, to that dear Lamb, Who suffered for our sins, and pious hands had laid Him in His rest, the eye of woman followed, with her heart; and marked the sacred spot. And, when the Sabbath rest was over, and before the day had dawned, first of the race, and second only to the angels, there were women there, with thoughts of piety; to pour their costly ointments, out, on His remains, and to embalm Him, with their tears. And, therefore, first, to them,

"Last at His Cross, and earliest at His grave,"

the Resurrection was announced: and even Apostles learned from women the triumphs of the truth.

"Oh, joy, to Mary, first, allow'd,

When roused, from weeping o'er His shroud,

By His own calm, self-soothing tone,

Breathing her name, as still His own.

"Joy to the faithful Three, renew'd,
As their glad errand they pursued:
Happy, who so Christ's word convey,
That He may meet them, on their way.

"So is it still: to holy tears,

In lonely hours, Christ risen appears:

In social hours, who Christ would see,
Must turn all tasks to charity."

My beloved, I would have you make THE HOLY WOMEN AT THE SEPULCHRE, the study and the pattern of your lives.

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Emulate their love, their piety, their charity. Give your first thoughts of life, your every day's first thoughts, to Christ; as they, so early in the morning, while it was yet dark, were at His tomb. The selfishness, and self-indulgence, which would keep you back, slay at His Cross, and bury in His grave. And Him with full, fresh, hearts. Let no one thought preoccupy your love. He gives you all or have, you are and have, in Him. best to Him. The sweetest spices you can buy; no matter what they cost. The fragrance, sweeter than all frankincense, of your unsullied purity in heart and life; of your unfaltering devotion to His name and service; of your unstinting charity, poured out in acts and offices of love, upon His poor, upon His widows, upon His orphans, upon every form of suffering humanity, in every form of sympathy and bounty, with the unreserve of that fair penitent, whose alabaster box of spikenard filled the house, full, with its fragrance. These be the studies of this last Easter, that you pass with me, that you shall bear hence, in your hearts, and through your lives; and, in the service of the Holy Women at the Sepulchre, you shall secure their bles sing.

Angels shall everywhere attend you, on your way, to cheer and comfort you. The stone, that seemed impossible to your weak hearts, a strength, not yours, shall roll away, before you. You shall renew, with every day, that you devote to God, in piety and charity, the power and glory of the Resurrection, in your hearts, renewed to holiness, and kindled into love.

You shall be messengers of consolation, in the glad tidings of the triumph of the Crucified, to other souls, less favoured than your own. And, when your day of life is done, and you must pass the twilight of the grave, to reach the glories of mid-heaven, you shall lie down, beside the Sepulchre of Jesus; sleep sweetly in the shadow of His Cross; and rise, in beauty and in glory, with the Maries, that He loved on earth-and with that dear child,* who dropped, untimely, by our side, and who should have taken part in our solemnities, to-day, and joys, with us, no doubt, in Paradise-to be the sharers of His joy, in Heaven.

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To fill" your "odorous lamps" with deeds of light,
And hope, that reaps not shame. Therefore, be sure,
You," when the Bridegroom, with His faithful friends,
Passes to bliss, at the mid-hour of night,"

Have "gain'd" your "entrance," Virgins "wise and pure.” †

*Sarah Wallace Germain, daughter of the Rev. Reuben J. Germain, Principal of St. Mary's Hall, one of the Graduating Class, and among its loveliest and most hopeful, died, at the Christmas Season.

Adapted, from Milton's Sonnet, "To a Virtuous Young Lady."

XI.

THE ELEVENTH ADDRESS

*TO THE GRADUATING CLASS AT ST. MARY'S HALL.

REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.

THIS is a happy day, for seventeen hearths; and, for my heart. So many daughters leave my side, to-day, to be the bearers, to so many homes, of highest human joy. If it be "more blessed to give, than to receive," I surely may account it happiness, to have made such happiness, for seventeen homes, three times. The daughters of St. Mary's Hall, who have completed its full course, and borne, from here, the best, that we can give them, number, to-day, one hundred and sixty-four. Ten times that many have enjoyed, in various degrees, the nurture of these sacred walls. Is it not something, to have suf fered for? Were it not worthy to have died for? Is it not much, to thank God for? Most heartily do I thank God, for it. And, in the sense of so much happiness, for so many hearths and hearts, sink and subdue the grief, that fills my own.

*March, A. D. 1854.

It is not in the view of learning or accomplishments, beloved ones, that I speak thus. Were you ten times as learned, and an hundred times as well accomplished, I should feel no certainty, that your attainments, here, were for your happiness; or, for the happiness of others. The highest human graces, that a woman ever won, have but ensnared her soul, in vanity and sin; and wrought destruction, through their attractions, for the souls of others. And intellectual powers and intellectual gifts, not subordinated to the providential orderings of God, not chastened and controlled by His renewing grace, are, at this time, unsexing women; and thrusting, on the astonished world, a race of monsters, in that Amazonian crew, who clamour, now, who clamour, now, for "Woman's Rights," such as no mythology has ever dreamed of.

What has been aimed at chiefly, here, and what alone can be relied on, to secure your personal happiness, to make you comforts to your homes, and ornaments and blessings to your race, is your religious training: the impression of your hearts, while they are new and plastic, yet, with the principles and precepts of God's holy word; and the subjection of your lives, in youthful piety, to its divine, renewing, influences.

There is nothing more observable in Holy Scripture, than the way in which it treats the young. The fact of their inherited depravity, it everywhere admits. That without holiness, no one can see the Lord, it everywhere proclaims. It never loses sight of the great plan of God, in their redemption and salvation, through Him, who died, for them, and rose again. Yet, it addresses