anxiety every quiver of his speechless lips; to. whose heart every writhing of his infant body has been a dagger; who has wholly forgotten, amidst the dangers of contagion, her own life while his was in danger: there is, amongst the monsters in human shape, now-and-then to be found the son of such a mother to mock at her supplications and her tears. But, let us hope, that, in England at any rate, such sons are rare indeed. And, even in such a case the mother has this consolation;

that the fault has not been hers; that she has done her duty towards God and towards her child; and that, if she have an unnatural' son, she has every just and humane heart to sympathise in her

sorrows.

But, under similar circumstances, what consolation has the unnatural mother? How is she, who cast her son from her breast, to complain of his want of affection? Old age has overtaken her; the fancied beauty, for which she bartered his birthright, is gone for ever. The gay hours, which she purloined from the cares of the cradle,

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are all passed away, and cannot be replaced by the comforting conversation and heart-cheering obedience of her son. She now feels the force of the maxim, No breast, no mother. The hireling is more his mother than she. The last stage of life is no season for the officious attention of friends; and he, who would have been worth all the friends

Thus,

in the world, has in his breast no feeling sufficiently strong to draw him to this scene of sadness. If held by some tie of interest, his hypocrisy, which he cannot disguise from the sharp sight of conscious want of duty, only adds to her mortification; and, though she roll in riches, she envies the happy mother in rags. without a single ray to dissipate the gloom, she passes on to that grave, on which she knows not a tear will be shed, and in her fate proclaims to the world the truth, which cannot be too often repeated, that the duties of children and those of parents are reciprocal, and that, to insure the performance of the former, the latter must first be performed.

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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of Devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry.

Paul's I. Epis. to Tim. C. iv. V. I.

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