like Miss Hasseltine by a cultivated mind and engaging manners to shine
in society, who having the choice between a life of ease and one of
personal exertion, chooses voluntarily, or only in obedience to the
dictates of conscience, the weary and self-denying path of the teacher.
And probably such a course would oftener be chosen, were young persons
aware of the unquestionable fact, that the school in which we make the
most solid and rapid improvement, is that in which we teach others.

An extract from her journal will sustain what we have said of her
conscientiousness and purity of motive in endeavoring to instruct the
young:

"_May 12, 1809._--Have taken charge of a few scholars. Ever since I have
had a comfortable hope in Christ, I have desired to devote myself to him
in such a way as to be useful to my fellow-creatures. As Providence has
placed me in a situation in life where I have an opportunity of getting
as good an education as I desire, I feel it would be highly criminal in
me not to improve it. I feel, also, that it would be equally criminal to
desire to be well educated and accomplished, from selfish motives, with
a view merely to gratify my taste and relish for improvement, or my
pride in being qualified to shine. I therefore resolved last winter to
attend the academy from no other motive than to improve the talents
bestowed by God, so as to be more extensively devoted to his glory, and
the benefit of my fellow-creatures. On being lately requested to take a
small school for a few months, I felt very unqualified to have the
charge of little immortals; but the hope of doing them good by
endeavoring to impress their young and tender minds with divine truth,
and the obligation I feel _to try to be useful_, have induced me to
comply. I was enabled to open the school with prayer. Though the cross
was very great, I felt constrained by a sense of duty to take it up. O