AS SHE SHOULD BE. I. THE APPROPRIATE SPHERE OF WOMAN. II. THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON WOMAN. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 183′, BY T. H. CARTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT GEO. A. & J. CURTIS'S THE three first chapters of this volume were originally prepared and preached by the author to his people, in a course of evening lectures, without any expectation of publishing them. The circumstances of the times led to the publication of the first one, in the Religious Magazine and separately. It has been some time out of print, and several individuals have signified a request that the other two might be published in connection with another edition of it. They have been accordingly submitted to the publishers, to be issued in the present form and connection. The first chapter is designed to indicate the sphere in which Christianity instructs woman to move and act; the second, to show what Christianity has done for her, and to exhibit the reasons why more women than men become pious; the third, to illustrate what is implied in the true Christian education of woman. I have employed the Saxon term, woman, considering it to be in truer taste, though less in use, than the somewhat vulgarized term lady. It is well known, that as the savage and pagan state is to women one of peculiar depression, so to |