The Importance of Family Religion.--By Rev. H. T. Cheever. 48 The Mission Money, or the Pride of Charity. 205, 234 The Mothers of the Bible.--Zipporah. 101 " " " The Mothers of Israel at Horeb. 133, 188 " " " The Mother of Samson. 197 " " " Naomi and Ruth. 229 " " " Hannah. 261 " " " Ichabod's Mother. 203 " " " Rizpah. 325 " " " Bathsheba. 357 The Mother's Portrait. 310 The Orphan Son and Praying Mother. 378 The Promise Fulfilled. 112, 145 The Riddle Solved. 211 The Stupid, Dull Child. 175 The Treasury of Thoughts. 162 The Wasted Gift, or Just a Minute. 125, 150 The Youngling of the Flock. 196 The Young Men's Christian Association.--By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. 228 To Fathers.--By Amicus. 7 To my Father. 318 Trials. 227 Why are we not Christians? 346 Woman.--By Rev. M. S. Hutton, D.D. 370 MRS. WHITTELSEY'S MAGAZINE FOR MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. * * * * * Editorial. A WORD OF EXHORTATION. Sensible of our accountability to God, of our entire dependence upon his blessing for success in all our undertakings, knowing that of ourselves we can do nothing, but believing that through Christ strengthening us we may accomplish something in his service, we enter upon the duties of another year--the twentieth year of our editorial labors. With language similar to that which the mother of Moses is supposed to have employed when she laid her tender offspring by the margin of the Nile:-- "Know this ark is charmed With incantations Pharaoh ne'er employed, With spells that impious Egypt never knew; With invocations to the living God, I twisted every slender reed together, And with a prayer did every ozier weave"--