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 11 Ghost is, in point of divinity, that is unthank- fulness, in point of morality, an offence un- pardonable. Pity it is, but that moon should be ever in an eclipse, that will not acknow- ledge her beams to be borrowed from the sun. He that praises not the giver, prizes not the gift. And so I pass from the Agent to the Object, “A help." She must be so much, and no less ; and so much, and no more. Our ribs were not or- dained to be our rulers. They are not made of the head, to claim superiority ; but out of the side, to be content with equality. They desert the Author of 'nature, who invert the order of nature. The woman was made for the man's comfort, but the man was not made for woman's command. Those shoulders, aspire too high, that content not themselves with a room below their head. It is between a man and his wife in the house, as it is be- tween the sun and the moon in the heavens, when the greater light goes down, the lesser light gets up when the one ends in setting, the other begins in shining. The wife may be a sovereign in her husband's absence, but she must be subject in her husband's presence. As Pharaoh said to Joseph, so should the hus- band say to his wife, Gen. xii. 40. "Thou shalt " be over my house, and according to thy word “shall all my people be ruled, only in the "throne will I be greater 'than thou." The body of that household can never make any good motion, whose bones are out of place. 'Ehe woman must be a help to the man in