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. This renders it a most valuable adjunct, in moral and religious instruction. It is the natural ally of the mother. It comes with her, into the field, while the dews of morning are fresh,—and ere the tares have sprung up to trouble the good seed. Taking precedence of other Teachers,—it brings the listening infant, "sweet words of sweetly-uttered knowledge." It bespeaks the love of the cradle-sleeper, for the God and Father of us all;—and walking hand in hand with the child, amid the charms and melodies of Nature,—teaches of a clime, where beauty never fades, and melody is eternal.

L. H. S. Hartford, Dec. 1835.