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bers of a family, and harmonizing their
hearts as well as voices, particularly in de-
votional strains. I khow no more agree-
able and interesting spectacle, than that of
brothers and sisters playing and singing
together those elevated compositions in
music and poetry which gratify the taste
and purify the heart, while their fond pa-
rents sit delighted by. Ihave seen and
heard an elder sister thus leading the fa-
mily choir, who was the soul of harmony
to the whole household, and whose life was
a perfect example of those virtues which I
am here endeavouring to inculcate. Let
no one say, in reading this chapter, that
too much love is here required of sisters,
that no one can be expected to lead such a
self-sacrificing life: for the sainted one to
whom I refer was all I would ask my sis-
ter to be, and a happier person never lived.
To do good and to make others happy was
her rule of life, and in this she found the
art of making herself’ so.

‘Sisters should always be willing to

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