sive mirage, nor threatened by the "fierce Simoon" or deadly chamseen. The milk-white goat of Cachmire with its long silky covering the deer and antelope climbing the massy rocks or resting under the lime-trees, and each the monarch of some cot or castle; while the carnivorous animals were confined by iron gratings. Here, attended by her indulgent father, she would occupy her leisure hours; or in the museum examining the richness and variety of its specimens. Such were Anica's recreations during her six years pupilage in Paris. And from these she would return invigorated to her ordinary studies, which she prosecuted with intense assiduity. She excelled in music, and her drawings displayed the finest taste and execution.

In Anica, great personal attractions were combined with an exquisite delicacy of feeling and deportment. She never evinced a consciousness of superiority, but by weeping over those whose dulness became conspicuous when unavoidably contrasted with her acquirements. At an examination, where various premiums were successively awarded to Anica by impartial judges, while the hearts of her parents were glowing with rapture, the big tears trembled in her dark blue eyes; and she became so agitated that permission was given her to retire. Her mother, alarmed at her protracted absence, went

in search of her, and might have sought in vain, but for the sobs which could not be suppressed. When she affectionately insisted on knowing the cause of this uneasiness, Anica replied that she could not refrain from weeping when they were giving her so many premiums, while some of her class-mates, who ardently desired them, must be so sadly disappointed. Her gentleness and suavity conciliated the affections, and she was thus happily exempted from those envyings which her elevated standing might otherwise have occasioned. And thus she pursued her onward course, delighting and astonishing friends and preceptors with her rapid proficiency, until her education was nearly completed; and her parents, actuated by one soulabsorbing interest, were making preparations for spending a few months in Italy, intending subsequently, to make the grand tour of Europe, that the highest possible finish might be given to this idol of their affections, desirous that others should worship at the same shrine with themselves. They never seemed to think that she was mortal. With

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thought of death" could find no room to enter. Even in her infancy, while they caressed the babe and gazed upon her beauty, no grateful thoughts ascended to Heaven for the precious gift. They

had received her as entirely their own, and heard not the voice of the giver, saying, "Nurse this child for me and I will pay thee thy wages;" no fearful weight of responsibility rested on their spirits. And their illusion continued. Religion, therefore, found no place in their system of education; a defect so great that Eternity alone can unfold its magnitude. "Holiness to the Lord" was never written upon their domestic arrangements. No altar was there erected for the morning and the evening sacrifice. And having "no fear of God before their eyes," they seemed totally unconscious that wisdom from Him above, to guide their daughter in the way of truth, was at all essential to the perfection of her character. Under such tuition, we cannot wonder that there should have been a dreadful vacuity even in the intelligent mind of Anica; God was not in all her thoughts. The beauty and variety of natural objects interested her, and from nature's ample page, she added to her stock of useful knowledge; but she studied and admired with the coolness of philosophy. No "ray of heavenly light" gilded their forms. It did not occur to her to inquire "who gave its lustre to an insect's wing?" She had never been taught that "Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God."

She had studied "heaven's golden alphabet," and loved astronomy as a science, but never read in those emblazed capitals a declaration of the glory of God; nor discovered in the laws by which they were governed, an exhibition of his handy work. She never inquired who hangeth the earth upon nothing? Nor, who hath set a tabernacle for the sun, and ordained the moon and the stars? The exclamation of the Psalmist, "O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all," might have been quite strange to her. And so would have been the assurance we have that "God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all his work." I have given the history of only six days in the week. Anica was never taught to "remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy." She was not led to the house of God, to worship in the beauty of holiness, and to be instructed in the things of His kingdom. She never enjoyed the privilege of a Sunday-School, nor the benefit of those precious volumes which constitute so large a part of our invaluable juvenile libraries. How then, it may be asked, could she have been occupied during the Sabbath which is to be sanctified by a holy resting even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful

on other days; when we are to know God by "not doing our own ways, nor finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words?" (Isa. lviii. 13.) If she neither read the Bible, nor attended worship, nor the Sabbath-school, nor had good books at home, how did she spend those sacred hours? I can only reply,-the pleasure gardens, the promenades, the gay streets and worldly amusements of Paris, absorbed them all.

"Death rides on every passing breeze,

He lurks in every flower;
Each season has its own disease,
Its peril every hour."

Taught to think of this world only, and preparing to shine in the gayest scenes of fashionable life, Anica was 66 quite unfurnished for the world to come." In the providence of God, however, she was called to severe suffering. A violent inflammation, proceeding from a very slight cause, terminated fatally. No alarm was felt respecting her until the disease had gained too much power to be overcome. When her danger was fully apprehended, the anguish of her parents was indescribable. All that could be done by medical skill or