54 AN EVENING AT HOME.

 

walk, ride, visit with their brothers; and
esteem it a privilege to be their companions.
It is worth while to learn innocent games
for the sake of furnishing brothers with
amusements and making home the most
agreeable place to them.

“T have been told by some, who have
passed unharmed through the temptations
of youth, that they owed their escape from
many dangers to the intimate companion-
ship of affectionate and pure-minded sis-
ters. They have been saved from a ha-
zardous meeting with idle company by
some home engagement, of which their
sisters were the charm; they have refrained
from mixing with the impure, because
they would not bring home thoughts and
feelings which they could not share with
those trusting, loving friends; they have
put aside the wine-cup and abstained from
stronger potations, because they would not
profane with their fumes the holy kiss with
which they were accustomed to bid their
sisters good-night.”