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 GOOD ADVICE 
 
 FOR 
 
 OYS AND GIRLS 
 
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 WORCESTER: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY S. A. ROWLAND 
 
 Henrj J. Howland, Printer, 
 
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 Children, make haste to learn to read. 
 and to understand the meaning of what you 
 read ; love to learn your duty, and to do it; 
 then you will be able to read the Bible, and 
 you will love to read it. There are many 
 thino's in it which you can understand now^ 
 though you are so young. 
 
 When you are older and wiser, you will 
 understand it better; and, if you are good^ 
 you will delight in it more and more. 
 

 Love your father and mother. The}' 
 love vou very clearly : and they have taken 
 care of you ever since you were born. They 
 ioved you, and took care of you, even when 
 you were I'lUle^ helpless babes, and could 
 
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 A talk, nor walk about, nor do scarcely 
 any thing but cry, and give a great deal ot 
 
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 Who is so kind to you as your parents 
 are? Who takes so much pains to instruct 
 you ? Who taught you almost every thing 
 you know ? Who provides food for you, and 
 clothes, and warm beds to sleep on at night? 
 Who is so glad when you are pleased, and 
 so sorry when you are troubled ? When 
 you are sick and in pain, who pities you, 
 and tenderly waits upon you, and nurses 
 you f Who prays, to God to give you 
 health, and strength, and every good thing? 
 
 Obey your parents. They know better 
 what is proper for you than you do ; and 
 they wish you to be good, and wise, and 
 happy- 
 
 Love your brothers and sisters. Do not 
 tease nor vex them, nor call them names ] 
 and never let your little hands be raised to 
 strike them* If they have any thing which 
 
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 you would like to have, do not be angry 
 with them, nor want to get it from them. 
 If you have any thing they like, share it 
 
 with them. 
 
 Your parents grieve when they see you 
 quarrel ; they love you all with dear love ; 
 and they wish you to love one another, and 
 to live in peace and harmony. 
 
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 o not meddle with what does not 
 long to you ; nor ever lake other people^s 
 things without leave. 
 
 Children, never allow yourselves to pluck 
 a flower, or fruit, that grows in your pa- 
 rent's or other people's gardens, unless yoii 
 are told that you may do so; never withi^ut 
 leave, take a pin, or a needle, or a bit of 
 thread, from your companions. If you steal 
 little thino-s, vou will soon learn to steal 
 <jreat things. 
 
 Never tell a lie« When you are relating 
 anv thing that vou have seen or heard, en- 
 deavor to tell it exactly as it was. Do not 
 alter nor invent any part, to make, as you 
 may think, a prettier story. If you have 
 forgotten any part, say that you have fc^r- 
 gotten it. Persons who love the truth, 
 never tell a lie, even in jest. 
 
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 Consider well before you make a prom- 
 ise. If you say you will do a thing, and 
 you do not do it, you will tell a lie; and 
 who then will trust or believe you ? No 
 persons are trusted, but those who keep 
 their promises, and who speak the truth. 
 
 When you have done a wrong or careless 
 action, do not deny it, even if you are afraid 
 you will be punished for it, If you are sor- 
 ry for what you have done, and endeavor to 
 do so no more, people will very seldom be 
 angry with you. They will love you for 
 speaking the truth ; they will think that 
 they may always believe what you say, 
 since they find you will not tell a lie, even 
 to hide a fault, and to prevent yourselves 
 from being punished. 
 
 It is very foolish to tell lies ; for, soon or 
 late they are found out ; and it is very 
 mean and wicked. God himself has said, 
 that we must not lie : that he abhors liars. 
 
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 and that he will punish them. Ananias 
 and Sapphira were struck dead for telling 
 lies. 
 
 Our parents are very good to us ; but 
 God is better than our parents, and he has 
 done more for us. He gave us our parents, 
 and every thing we have. He is 
 
 
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 man; he is wiser and better than any man 
 ever was or can be. 
 
 He has made the sun, moon, and stars; 
 the earth, the sky, and the water; trees 
 and flowers ; birds, beasts, fishes, and in- 
 sectSj and menj women and children. 
 
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 He has made us more excellent than the 
 beasts; for he has given us souls. It is 
 our sou's that know God, and that he is 
 good, and wise, and powerful. The beasts 
 do not know God, nor the things which he 
 has made ; if we were to tell them, they 
 would not understand us. Our souls learn 
 end know a great many thing's, which the 
 beasts cannot learn. Our bodies will die 
 like the beasts. When we are laid in the 
 grave^ our flesh and our bones will dis- 
 solve and niingle with tlie earth. But our 
 Bouls are immortal : they will never die. 
 
 God orders every thing. He keeps us 
 alive : and he makes us die when he pleas- 
 es. There is nothina which he cannot do. 
 He sees us wherever we are, by night, as 
 well as by day ; and he knows all that we 
 doj and say, and think. There is nothing 
 which he does not know. 
 
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 We must love God. Good people love 
 him more than they love any thing, or any 
 person in the world. They never rise in 
 the morning, or lie down at night, without 
 thinking of him, and of the good he has 
 done them. Often in the day, they think 
 of him : and they love to talk^ and hear, 
 and read about him. 
 
 We must pray to God ; for he is very 
 good, and worthy to be loved ; and desire 
 him to forgive us when we do wrong, to 
 put good thoughts into our minds, and to 
 help us to be better ; and that he will bless 
 us, and our parents, and all our kind friends, 
 and give us every good thing that is proper 
 for us. 
 
 We must do to all persons what God re- 
 quires us to do. It is his will that we should 
 not be unkind, even to people who are un« 
 kind to us ; and that we should do to all 
 persons as we wish they would do to us. 
 
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 The things that God requires of us will 
 make us ^ood and happy. Tf we do them 
 not, he vvili be displeased with us, and will 
 punish us. He can punish us in whatever 
 way he pleases. He can take away all our 
 friends, and every thing that hci has given 
 us; and after death, he can make us mis- 
 erable forever. But, if we try to be good, 
 and do as he would have us to do, he will 
 help us to be good ; he will bless us ; he 
 will make us feel happy in our minds : and 
 when we die, that is, when our souls leave 
 our bodies, he will take us into heaven 
 where we shall be with him, and know and 
 iove him, and praise him better than any 
 body in this World can know, and love, and 
 praise him. Then we shalT never grieve 
 anymore; we shall be wiser and happier 
 than any body who lives here can be, or cao 
 imagine. 
 
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 e must love to read the Bible. It is 
 the most excelient and beautiful of all 
 books. God himself comtnaoded good men 
 to write it. There, we read of the great 
 and p-ood things God has done for us, and 
 for all people ; how just, and wise, and 
 powerful he is; and what w^e must do to 
 serve and please hioi. There we read of 
 good men who loved God, and whom he 
 loved and blessed } of Abraham, Isaac, and 
 Jacobj of Joseph J Moses, Samuel, and Da- 
 vid. 
 
 There too, we read of Christ, who wa^ 
 30 good^ and who has done so much for us. 
 
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 He never did harm to any body : be never 
 did any thing that was wrong. He was 
 gentle and patient when he was troubled^ 
 and when he was ill used^ he was kind to 
 all persons, even to those who were unkind 
 to him 5 and, when wicked men were just 
 going to kill him, he prayed to God to for- 
 o[ive them. 
 
 When we have read, or heard about 
 Christ, and wha he was, and what great 
 things he has done for us, we must love 
 him, and be thankful to him, and try to be 
 hke him. 
 
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