It was a paper in the handwriting of a Christian friend, which was found in her copy of the "Articles and Covenant" of her church, after her decease. This lady had been in the habit, as it seemed, of reading over those articles and the covenant, on the Sabbath when the Lord's Supper was to be administered; and the religious education of her children, being identified with her most sacred thoughts and moments, she read these questions at the same time. The lady who read them said that it was proposed by some to append them to the little manual already presented for Maternal Associations. * * * * * "QUESTIONS TO BE THOUGHT UPON. "1. Have I so prayed for my children as that my prayer produced an effect upon myself? "2. Have I realized that to train my children for usefulness and heaven is probably the chief duty God requires of me? "3. Have I realized that, if I cannot eradicate an evil habit, probably no one else can or will? "4. Have I granted to-day, from indulgence, what I denied yesterday from principle? "5. Have I yielded to importunity in altering a decision deliberately made? "6. Have I punished the beginning of an evil habit? "7. Have I suffered the indulgence of an evil habit through sloth or discouragement? "8. Have calmness and seriousness marked my looks, tones, and voice, when inflicting punishment? "9. Was my convenience, or the guilt of the child, the measure of its punishment? "10. Has punishment been sufficiently private, and have I tried to affect the mind more than the body? "11. Do my children see in me a self-command which is the effect of principle? "12. Have I, in my plans, my heart, and conduct, sought first for my children the kingdom of God? "13. Have I commended God to my children, and my children to God? "14. Have I aimed to govern my children on the same principle and in the same spirit which God adopts in the government of his creatures? "15. Have I, in pursuance of the above resolution, acted in the spirit of that prayer in God's word, 'Them that honor me, I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed'? "16. Have I aimed to secure the love and obedience of my children? "17. Have I remembered that it is full time to make a child obey when it knows enough to disobey? "18. Do I realize that the fulfilment of covenant promises is dependent on my fidelity? Gen. 18: 19. "19. Have these resolutions been undertaken in the strength of Christ, remembering 'I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me'? "20. Have I labored to convince my child that its true character is formed by its thoughts and affections? "21. Do I daily realize that each of my children is a shapeless piece of marble, capable, through my instrumentality, of being moulded into an ornament for the palace of the King of kings? "22. Do I, by my conversation and actions, teach my children that character, and not wealth or connexions, constitutes respectability?