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 Precious treasure thou art mine* 
 Mine t<» chide when ! rove, 
 Mine to toll the Saviour's loves, 
 
 Mine to tell of joys to come, 
 Awd the rebel sinner s -doom :. : 
 O, thou precious hook dmne s . 
 Precious treasure thou art mm®. 
 
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 " Why do you tie that bough to 
 a stump?** I said to th££g*irdener 
 one day, "Fdcvit, S^^^id hfy 
 M because I wish it#to grow 
 straight, and If I do not keep it 
 bent this way for some time, it 
 will grow crooked." This remind- 
 ed* we of what King Solomon 
 lays, " Train up a child in tlifs 
 w<iy he should go, and wheii he lb 
 did he will not depart from it, 1 ' 
 

 ** He that once sins, like him thai 
 
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 « Goes quickly down the slipp fy 
 
 paths of vice: 
 *< His conscience pricks 1um-*u* 
 
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 Some people, like this piir, seem 
 to think they have nothing to do 
 but to eat, drink, and steep : but 
 t^.ey ought to know a|d to do 
 better? and are therefore worse 
 than pigs. 
 
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 They o»!y want q traueh and stv* 
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 What a troublesome animal 
 a dog is that is always balk- 
 ing and snarling at people* 
 Pray, do vow think a boy or 
 girl who is always peevish and 
 discontented any better thaif 
 thedogr For my part, I think 
 they are worse, for they are 
 told of the sinfulness of sue* 
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 >y the children who betimes 
 Efave loarn'd to lenow the lord % 
 Who through hU grace escape 
 the crimes 
 Forbidden in his word. ; 
 
 Stettltf they be early hence re- 
 movd, 
 He #ilf their sonJs receive : 
 Wot tfiost* who Jesus here frave 
 lov'd, 
 
 With him shall ever live. 
 
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 Are they not of wisdom void, 
 Those who saunter enemploy'd, 
 Young or old who foolish play 
 Their important time away. 
 
 Sloth is the accursed root, 
 Whence ten thousand evil $ shoot 
 EvVy vice, and cvWy Kin, 
 May with Idleness begin. 
 
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 Here t* a rose, but there arc 
 BOiue thorns close to ir that prick- 
 ed Susan '» finder when she ga- 
 thered it. Remember, my dear, 
 that ihincp which appear very 
 pleasant often bring as sadtreablev 
 
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 There are ro,any pretty histories 
 in the Bible, thai about Ruth is 
 one: she was kind to her mother- 
 in-law, and would not forsake her, 
 and 1 am sr.re Kuth never was 
 sorry that she had been so kind 
 and attentive. 
 
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 How tmu! ft' is of God to make 
 those pretty cows that they may 
 find as Pood. When 1 take" my milk 
 F win ihink of the groat God who 
 is so goo;! to bs little children. In 
 some pari? of the world there arc 
 a great many cows that are so 
 wild, tli.it instead of standing still 
 tto be milked, they would atlac-k 
 and hurt anv body thai eame near 
 them. 
 
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 Here is a ship. The good 
 men who fust preached the 
 % -os p«r in England came in 
 a ship; and, of late years, 
 ^ great n)any good men have 
 n-one from England in ships 
 to preach the gospel to other 
 nations, where they could not 
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 Children our kind protection claim 
 
 And GoǤ will well approve, 
 When infante leani to iisp his 
 name, 
 
 And their creator love. 
 Pelightful work ! young souls to 
 win. 
 
 And turn the rising race 
 FK>m the deceitful paths of sin, 
 
 To seek redeeming grace* 
 
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 Here is a tree quite full of bio* 
 soms, but perhaps they will all fail 
 off, and bye and bye there will be 
 no fruit on the tree. Sometimes 
 litfl« boys and girls appear to be 
 very good children, aud very pro- 
 mising, but after all they do not 
 turn out well. Pray that God may 
 enable you to bring forth good 
 fruit' to his glory, 
 
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 in^>nu>v6 tluf lwirvi^t 4mars, 
 
 While sumantf hists, in all her&elk 
 Her winter food she si ores. 
 
 1 n ycmihfai days spk grace diy# ', 
 
 For youth of life's the prinu:;, 
 
 JSry.si is ih'H season far our work, 
 And this til\ accepted time. 
 
 
 
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