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AN AFFEeTIoNATE SPIRIT.-We some times meet with men who seem to think that any indulgence in aflectionate feeling is q weakness. They will return from a journey and greet their families with distant dignity, and move among their children with the cold and lofty splendor of an iceberg, surrounded with its broken fragments-Thelei is hardly more unnatural sight on earth than one ot these families without hearts.

 A father had better extingish his boys eyes than take way his heart. .Who that has ex- .perienced the joys of friendship, and knows the worth of sympathy and affection would not rather lose all that Is beautiful in nature's scenery. than be robbed of the hidden treas ures of his hearti Who would not rather bu- " his wife than bury his love for her; Who would not rather follow his child to the grave, than entomb his paternal afiection2

 Cherish, then, your hearts best affections Indulge in the warm and gushing emotions ot filial, parental, fraternal love- Think il not weakness. God IS loue. Love God Love every one, any-thing that IS loyely.- Teach your children to love; 10 love the rose. to love their God. Let it be the studied ob- ject of your domestic culture, to give then, warm hearts and ardent affections. Bind vour whole family together by these strong cords ou cannot make them too strong. Religion IS love ;-love to God-love to man.

 Norfolk HeraM