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The principal design of this Volume is
to portray the progress of a mind educated
in exclusiveness and ignorance, and the
many influences which awake it to a sense
of its social unhealthiness, of which, however,
the grand and only cure must ever be the
Gospel. Many other topics and evils are
touched upon, and an attempt made to indi-
cate the errors of various classes; but nothing
has the writer had more at heart than the
hope of even this feeble instrument being
blessed by Him who alone can bless, to the
impressing upon women of the upper ranks
a sense of their vast responsibilities, as the
holders of gifts and talents, of which they
must soon give in their account.

PARKHILL, ABERDEEN,
December 14, 1860.

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Lady Elinor Mordaunt

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SUNBEAMS IN THE CASTLE.

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"IT is good for me that I have been afflicted." --Ps. exix. 71.

"True, it may seem a moment,
As though thou wert forgot,

As though He were unmindful
Of thy peculiar lot.

As though thy grief and anguish
Reached not th' Eternal Throne,
And thou wert left to languish
In sorrow and alone.

"But if, though much should grieve thee,
Thy faith shall ne'er have ceased,

Be sure He will relieve

When thou expect'st it least.
Then hail to thee, victorious!

Thou hast, and thou alone,
The honour, bright and glorious,
The conquest and the throne.

PAUL GERHARDT.

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