My young friends, seek not only to make those around
you happy in this world, but happy forever. Give thine own heart to
Jesus, and thou mayest save thy brother and thy sister, and thou shalt
meet them on high. Refuse to do so, and thou mayest drag these loved
ones down with thee to that cold dark region, where affection is unknown
and nothing is heard but blasphemies and curses. Oh, thou kind and
loving brother and sister, can ye endure the thought of spending an
eternity in cursing each other as the instruments of each other's
destruction? Christ alone can deliver you from such a woe.
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HABIT.--"I trust everything, under God," said Lord Brougham,
"to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the
schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance; habit, which makes
everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from a
wonted course. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful;
make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to
the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes
are to any of your lordships."
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Original.
AN APPEAL TO BAPTIZED CHILDREN.
BY REV. WM. BANNARD.
It is presumed, young friends, that you have reached an age when you are
capable of appreciating your obligations, but have hitherto neglected
them.
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