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Pg. xii

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Xii INTRODUCTION. 

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 is the devout and holy thought expressed in the following stanza: 

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 “ The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.” 

4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 How admirably are brought out, in every part of this Sketch, some of those lessons most profitable for the wife and the mother to practise ! What a valuable one, for example, is this ! My mother “used to say that it was disagreeable and improper to be bustling about while father was within; and when he was gone out, the work must be done up.” Oh that wives and mothers understood and practised this wisely and well! What different scenes would the cottager’s home present if they did! How many a man would be saved from the alehouse fireside, where comfort and convenience are studied to seduce him into sin, if wives and mothers would but so order their households that when the father returns his coming shall be welcomed by cleanliness and peace, and his home shall be made to him the most blessed and grateful place that he can find! 

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