The Hearth-Stone: Thoughts Upon Home-Life in Our Cities

Off with the old burdens, and put on the new armor. There is something for each of us to do--something for each one of us specific and peculiar as our own individuality--somethi...

We have illustrated first, the fact of orphanage, and secondly, the secondary relations that may be its alleviation. May we not add, that where the principles recommended are ad...

Every important word in human language is of itself a chapter of history, and if we could read it rightly would tell us the mind of all the ages that have shaped its form, and a...

The Christian church! Here the spirit of the guardian mother ought eminently to prevail. The church should be the mother of the young. Oh, how cold and dreary is the idea, deeme...

Does content live with us, or its opposite, discontent? The question cannot be answered by any general considerations of fortune or position. Surely discontent is found in the m...

It is not well to conclude these thoughts upon the influence of scenes upon character without urging home the truth, that our ruling principle is the main index and source of ch...

Street-preaching is, we are told, to be the order of the day, and the poor and neglected are to hear the Word from lips before strange to them. Not only in the haunts of the mis...

We start with a clear principle, that defines at once the sentiment that belongs to this relation. Both parties have the same essential nature, and we use the term inferiors sim...

I need only name the crowning duty of brothers and sisters--the duty of being mutual helpers, for this is implied in what we have said of consideration and confidence. They whom...

So America stood like a fair bride in her ocean home, adorned for her husband, that mighty race from the East, that came in the path of the sunshine, as if following the lord of...

These thoughts are published for the same reason that led the author from time to time to put them upon paper,--a wish to meet a want in the sphere of the affections rather than...

A true system of popular education in connection with our laws regarding inheritance, is raising up a generation which will not long be ignorant of the power of intelligence, in...

Let the motive spirit be just and fervent, it remains a question with daughters what shall be the chosen purpose of their after lives. Circumstances must in some measure influen...

Manners are but lesser morals, and closely connected with the greater morals. Good manners begin at home, and if they do not begin there, the desire for them is apt to end in po...

Consider, seriously, young man, that you have a work to do in the world, whilst it is still called to-day. The charm of life, as well as its true honor, lies in the earnest purs...

And in its train peace will come--not merely the quiet that checks harsh words, and regulates tumultuous cares; but the interior peace that tranquillizes each mind without break...