And the reason for all this difference is the different manner in which these boys were trained in their early days. "Train up a child," says the good book, "in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Analyze the direction, and see how it reads. Train up a child--what? Why _train_ him--_i.e._, educate him, discipline him. Whom did you say? A _child_. Take him early, in the morning of life, before bad habits, indolent habits, vicious habits are formed. It is easy to bend the sapling, but difficult to bend the grown tree. You said _train a child_, did you? Yes. But how? Why, _in the way_ in which he _ought to go_--_i.e._, in some useful employment--in the exercise of good moral affections--pious duties towards God, and benevolent actions towards his parents, brothers, companions. Thus train him--a child--and what then--what result may you anticipate? Why, the royal preacher says that when he is old--of course, then, during youth, manhood, into old age, _through life_ he means, as long as he lives he will not--what? He will _not depart_ from it, he will neither go back, nor go zig-zag, but _forward_, in that way in which he ought to walk, as a moral and accountable being of God, and a member of society, bound to do all the good he can. And thus he will come under the conditions of a just or honest man, of whom another Scripture says, "His path is as the shining light, which shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day." The _perfect_ day! But when is that? Why in it may mean the day when God will openly acknowledge all the really good as his sons and daughters. But I love to take it in more enlarged sense--I take the perfect day to be when the good will be as perfect as they can be; but as that will not be to the end of eternity, those who are trained up in the way they _should_ go, will probably continue to walk in it till the absolutely perfect day comes which will never come, for the good are going to grow better and better as long as _eternity_ lasts. So much for setting out right with your _children_, parents!--bringing them up right--and this involves, among other things, teaching them to "open the gate for themselves" and similar sorts of things. GRATIS. * * * * * Original. FEMALE EDUCATION. BY REV. SAMUEL W. FISHER. The nature of female education, its influence, its field of action, comprehending a wide range of the noblest topics, render it utterly impossible to do justice to the entire theme in the brief limits here assigned to it. Indeed it seems almost a superfluous effort, were it not expected, nay, demanded, to discuss the subject of education in a work like this.