A GOOD. DAUGHTER.
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 A good daughter !-,here are other min istries of love more conspicuous than hers, but none in which gentler. lovelier spirit dwells, and none to which the hearts warm requtals more joyfully respond. There is no such thing as comparative estimate of a parents affection for one or another child. There is little which he needs to covet, to whom the treasure of d good child has been given. But a sons occupations and pleas ures carry him more abroad, and he lives more among temptations, which hardly per- init tl,e affection, ,Ilat is following him per haps over half lhe globe, to be wholly un- mingled with anxiety, till the time when he comes to relinquish the shelter "f his faith CTS roof for one of his own; while a.good daughter is the steady light of her parent house. Her idea is indissolubly connected with that of his happy frcside. She is his morning sunlight and his evening star.- The grace and vivacity, and tenderness of her sex, have their place in the mighty sway which she holds over his spirit. The les sons of recorded wisdom which he reads with her cyes, come to his mind with a new charm as they blend with the beloved mel ody ofher voice. He scarcely knows wea-