"A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband." Prov. xii. 4.

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LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

NORWICH;

HENRY W. STACY, HAYMARKET.

1869.

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These short Addresses make no pretension to originality; they were written at the suggestion of a friend to beguile some hours of lonely weakness. Some of them have been read at Mothers' Meetings, and were appreciated by the poor women. It is hoped, that by printing them, they may be made more generally useful amongst our cottage wives and mothers.

MOTHERS OF THE BIBLE.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

As you, my dear friends, are all or most of you mothers, I think it will interest you to hear about the mothers of olden time, whom we read of in that best of books, the Bible.

I therefore intend, with God's help, to give you a short account of some of them.

Mother! how many loving and happy thoughts spring up in our minds at the name! Where can we find love and tenderness like that of the mother? Look at your own little ones. In every little pain or trouble, do they not look to you for comfort? In every fright or danger, do they not run to you for protection? God, who put such tender love in the heart of the

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