reading, reflection--all these, and a thousand other things which every
one, as a general rule, attends to--may be performed in a manner to
correspond more and more with the Scripture direction which has been
illustrated.

There are, in respect to what I am now mentioning, two classes of
persons in the world--of females as well as males; and they differ from
each other as widely, almost, as the world of happiness from the world
of misery. One of these classes lives to _receive_; is selfish--
supremely so. The other lives to _communicate_, more or less--to
do good--to make the world around it better. The last class is
benevolent.

A person of either class is not necessarily indolent or inactive; but
the end and aim of the labors of one, are _herself_; while the
other labors for God and mankind. The one procures honey from every
flower--formed by other hands--but not a flower does she ever raise by
the labor of her own hands, if she can possibly avoid it.

The one lives only to enjoy; the other, to be the continual cause of
joy, like her Creator. The latter has a source of happiness within; the
former depends for her happiness on others. Leave her alone, or amid a
frowning or even an indifferent world, and she is miserable.

Would that I could reach the ears of that numerous class who are
dependent on the world around them for their happiness--who never
originated any good, and are becoming more and more useless everyday!
Would that I could make them believe that true happiness is not to be
found externally, unless it first exist in their own bosoms! Would that
I could convince them that the royal road to happiness--if there be