THE

SCHOOL FOR SISTERS;

OR, THE

Lesson of Experience.

We cannot dispute ourselves into heaven, but we may lose
our way thither, while litigating unimportant topics.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTEK-ROW.

1823.

PREFACE.

To inculcate "the lesson of experience" through the medium of an entertaining story, founded on fact, by pointing out the evil sometimes attending a species of enthusiasm, unhappily prevalent among characters otherwise amiable, well educated, and formed to do honour to the church they desert, and the connections they fly from, has been the object of the Author of the following Tale; who, affectionately addressing herself to the growing-up young ladies of the present period, more especially to the youthful orphan, left in a degree to her own guidance, seeks to prove, and inculcate, that

"true practical religion, distinct alike from fanaticism on the one hand, or coldness on the other," is the sure and only path to as much happiness as is attainable in this world, as well as the infallible conductor to that eternal and unspeakable felicity promised in the next.