in a condition to be made wretched by a drunken husband! I think it not improper or unnecessary, that young ladies should take into consideration the health of those who would become united to them. I know of no good reason why a young woman should be connected with a man who, from constitutional causes, is or probably soon will be incapacitated to superintend a family. You should endeavor to exercise proper precaution upon this point. It is true, all are liable to disease, and its unhappy consequences; and all I would caution you respecting this subject, is, to act prudently in regard to placing your affections upon an individual who is laboring under a constitutional and incurable disease, which would probably be transmitted to his offspring.* In selecting a husband, you should not be too fastidious in regard to his personal beauty, his occupation, or the amount of his property. These are unimportant circumstances, provided all other qualifications abound. He may be plain in person, yet beautiful in moral and mental accomplishments. He may be poor in property, yet rich in affection, kindness, and all those social qualifications that minister so highly to domestic happiness and as to the want of property, it is an evil that can, in general, soon be removed by industry and economy. His occupation may be * See Combe's Constitution of Man. of a common order, but if it is proper and useful, it will not lessen your respect in the eyes of the enlightened and discreet. While there are many qualifications that would be pleasing in a husband, there are some indispensably requisite. He should be engaged in some laudable occupation or profession—he should be industrious, economical, honest--of good habits, of a kind and benevolent disposition, strictly moral and temperate, and should also possess an unwavering belief in the doctrines and precepts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He who is destitute of any of those qualifications, should be avoided. But with a young man who possesses these characteristics, you may rationally anticipate a happy union, and a life of as much enjoyment as is usually allotted to mortals in this mutable world. This "Voice to the Young" now ceases. If its tones have, in any degree, enlightened the minds of my readers, or infused a virtuous influence into their hearts, or opened their eyes to dangers that surround them, the object for which is has been sounded, is accomplished. THE AMUSEMENTS OF YOUTH. BY A. B. GROSH. "Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?" 66 ECCLESIASTES Vii: 16. Dr. Gerard, one of the best Biblical critics of the age, informs us that the word here rendered righteous," is derived from an Arabic word, signifying to be stiff, inflexible, inflexibly straight.— Hence it is used in a secondary or metaphorical sense, to denote being just or true—and this is a very common use of the term in the Hebrew. But such, he informs us, is not the sense in our text— here it has the primitive meaning. Our transla tors erred, probably, in supposing the 16th and 17th verses to be antitheses—whereas they are parallelisms, as is evident by the same conclusion in each. Hence "too rigid," or “inflexible over-much," in the 16th verse, is equivalent to "over-much wicked," in the 17th verse; and "over-wise," or wise in your own conceit, as is the meaning of the term, in the 16th, is equivalent to "folly," in the 17th verse. The consequences in both verses are the same—in the 16th verse, "destruction ;" in the 17th, "untimely death." It forms, in fact, a double parallelism, where, though the sense is twice repeated, yet the language is each time varied, and |