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    BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 351

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    Books Or The Month..1st A Somewhat Bulky...

    entitled " Heart Music / ' He addresses himself especially to * -working- leand has a happy manner of giving advice in plain

    been simple especiall language peop , interested . Among the by one " Common " On the Life Limits Sermons of , " Man ( 4 ) we 's Dail have y ,

    y , of Work over . -leisure Mr . Clarke and over here -work call / s attention and asserts to broadl " the two that crying " it evils is as y

    women clearly — the humanit will y of — Heaven should go that forth ' man in / the i . e ., m all orning men , to including i labour "

    until the evening / as it is His will that the sun should rise and set , and that the moon should wax and wane . He urges upon the

    victims of over-leisure , " to find out a useful work of some sort to doand to forsake for everthe sin and the sorrow of idleness . If

    ther , e is the hearty _tvill to , work , the way will not long be wanting-, onllet It be real true work . Let it not be mere playing at working 9

    but y let it be something that fills the thoughts a , nd requires the full and persevering ies of mind and body . Here we are obliged

    to differ . It is a energ very easy and comfortable doctrine , that anybody who wishes to work will have no difficulty in finding work to do ;

    but it is simply not true . All , or almost all , work that is worth doing , requires special training for it . Mere goodwill does not supply the

    p Those lace of who a regular have had apprenticeshi the misfortun p ; most e to be men broug receive ht up this to training nothing-, .

    and whose time is not occupied in looking after property , & c , are , like women similarlbrought upin a very difficult and _perjDlexlng

    position the lot . of There women are y which , no doubt do , to certain , some household small extent duties falling their to , , , occupy

    time and strength , but where there are two or three women in a familthese are by no means sufficient . And these household

    ministries y , , good and beautiful in their way and within due limitationsbecome a source of evil . The amount of service which

    , may many brothers the selfishness expect to and which receive we from are their all naturall sisters , directl inclined y encou and - y

    • rages arr which ayed it against is hard en us oug . Phil h' to anthrop resist , y without is commonl having y lo our oked best upon friends , as

    appropriate work for women with leisure , but this is too responsible and difficult a vocation to be seriously recommended to all _?

    indiscriminately , and as a mere resource . Those women who are neither missionary nor lovers of study for its own sake , and yet

    wish to be doing something , have a difficult task set before them ., throug lessons Various h , and are that _tassons the these expedients of things all sorts are , resorted are wh among at Mr to . ; them Clarke needlework . But calls it , p is lay sin felt ing ging all at

    pressing persevering working . , . Th It energ ey is do ies better not of mind " not fill and to the try bod thoug y to . hts ' hide The and it difficulty require by plausible the is real full , and and but

    hollow admonitory , phrases .

    John ( 4 ) Morgan " Common , Paternoster Life Sermons Row . . " By the Rev . J . Erskine Clarke , M . A _,

    Books Of The Month. 351

    BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 351

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/63/