Matrimony not only increases our happiness in this but it also inclines us to a greater degree of piety. faults not only affect ourselves, but those too, who united their destinies with us. This leads us to a gr degree of caution. He who would ruin an innocent and children, by his wickedness and profligacy, is a ster of the most hideous kind. A single man is ofte different about his conduct-sometimes guilty of the sest immoralities, because there are none to whom accountable. The actions of the married on the contr are open to the inspection of each other. If either of t do any wrong, it will be observed, and the error may corrected by a little friendly admonition. In this way matrimonial life sets a limit to our evil propensities, renders the dominion of virtue easy and pleasant. unhappily, such is not the case in every instance. I many have brought misery upon themselves for a w life, by pledging their hand at the altar, through s blind and passionate inclination, or perhaps an expecta of wealth, which is never to be realized. If, howeve matrimonial alliance is thus concluded, it remains in s degree optional with the parties, whether or not t whole existence shall be a continued scene of disappo ment or disgust. The good conduct of married people at the commen ment of their career, is of the utmost importance. Th contentment and happiness depends entirely upon their tual respect for each other. Whatever behaviour th may adopt at first, is likely to give a bias to their hal ever after. They should therefore, be extremely cautious in their deportment. If they neglect this they will always repent of their indifference. They may have known each other for years, without sufficiently understanding their respective characters. When they are brought together as man and wife, divested of all artifice and dissimulation, they are surprised to find that their feelings, opinions and inclinations are widely different. There are a hundred unwelcome peculiarities of temper and disposition, which they did not expect to discover. Hence they accuse each other of deception, because they were satisfied with a confused idea of each other's supposed excellence, which upon a closer intimacy, they have found to be without foundation. For this reason, it is not uncommon to find even good and well disposed persons, less happy in the early part of their matrimonial life than after a lapse of years, when they have learned to understand and know each other better. Where two persons have united themselves together for a whole life, there ought not to be any pride or obstinacy, but a mutual respect and indulgence of each other. The husband should rule by kindness and persuasion-he should endeavor, imperceptibly, to lead his wife to the faithful performance of her duties, without assuming an air of insolent authority. She on the other hand, should not desire to have any other influence, than what she can attain by gentleness and love-the most powerful weapons of her sex. Beware of all dissentions. It is better to suffer wrong severe reproaches, and a disposition to represent faul all their enormity, will eventually tend to incorporate the mind, a spirit of enmity and bitterness which not can eradicate. The newly married, if they would enjoy unanimity, establish it as a governing and inviolable rule, not to ceal from one another any secrets. Even their minu thoughts should be reciprocally known. Otherwise, understanding and distrust will be the consequence. better to disclose the most trifling error, however pai it may be, than to envelope it in doubt and mystery. there is nothing which ought not to be equally the conc of both, it should be their earnest endeavor to enjoy e other's confidence; and then no evil designed persons create dissensions between them. When there is an tempt to hide a fault, one from the other, there is alread dissimilarity of feelings, which will sooner or later estra their affections. Even in jest, they ought not to indulg any light or trivial conduct, which is at variance with character they have assumed. Let them attend faithf to these duties, and they will find that matrimony is a golden tie, locking their hearts together beyond the po of any thing but death to separate. And finally, the surest foundation of connubial happir -the most important of all other considerations, is r gion. The husband who is destitute of this-who ne makes a Deity the subject of his meditations, is more li ly to run into the sins of vice and immorality; he wo andon or drive his family int at faults in porate with ich nothing mity, must ot to con ⚫ minutest vise, misnce. It is ever painful stery. As the concern enjoy each persons can re is an at- ce with the nd faithfully mony is as a d the power al happiness ons, is reli -who never and despair. The wife also, whose heart is not warmed with religious emotions, is divested of one of her most inestimable charms, and is less capable of soothing the rug. ged sorrows of her husband. That woman, whose soul is not consecrated with the indwelling of a God, is not susceptible of those high perfections, which are so peculiarly the ornaments of her sex. Newly married people, if they prize their future happiness, should never regard this subject with indifference. If in one, religious feelings are extinct, the other may renew them by gentle reproofs and exhortations. Furnish at all times, an example of piety, and such will be the effect of habit, that in course of time, one will be imperceptibly led to adopt the sentiments and principles of the other, and at the same time think them the result of his own convictions. Only in this way can the happiness of wedlock be so immutably established, as to mitigate the evils incident to human life. You who have united your destinies upon the altar, remember that you stand pledged to comfort and support each other in every extremity. As you journey on from time to eternity, your days of anguish will come, and without the same love, the same faith, and the same hope of eternal happiness, you cannot expect to triumph over your calamities. We have already spoken of the sacredness of a ma monial alliance. None are more important or venera It was sanctioned by the Deity himself. In the record Moses, we are told of the Almighty creating for ma his solitude, a help-mate. There seems indeed, to be irresistable impulse implanted in the human breast, wh inclines us to lavish our affections upon each other. G ed by this holy and unchangable law of our nature, we the woman in her weakness, relying upon the strength power of the man for protection, while he in turn, is so ed and recompensed by her more amiable aud gentle qu ties. The happiness of the husband and wife is mutually rived from each other. They partake alike of joy sorrow; glory and ignominy; wealth and poverty. T are the same to each other in all the circumstances of 1 The misfortune of one, is the misfortune of the oth Nothing but the grave can sever their connexion. E the bonds which unite brothers and sisters, or parents a children, are far less enduring. The tender youth He is now contending with the grown into manhood. He receives no longer the prote |