Part 19 (1/2)

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A ins to ask questions

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The child's restless observation, instead of being ignored or checked, should be diligently ministered to, and made as accurate as possible

--_Herbert Spencer_

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Speak gently to the little child!

Its love be sure to gain; Teach it in accents soft and ford_

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_I Sa a child; girded with a linen ephod”

The Rev John Broas born in 1722, in the county of Perth in Scotland In a narrative of his experience, he rereat mercy, that I was born in a family which took care of e of God's worshi+p, e, I happened, in a crowd, to push into the church at Abernethy, on a Sacrament Sabbath Before I was excluded, I heard a minister speak htfulaffections, and has since made me think that children should never be kept out of church on such occasions”

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To i scroll of phrases without any ideas, is a practice fitter for a jackdaw than for anything that wears the shape of man

--_Dr I Watts_

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The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose

--_Scott_

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THE CHILD AND THE ”RISING DAY”

The following is a true narrative of an experience in life:

It was nearing three o'clock of last Easter afternoon, when a woates of the beautiful ”sleeping place” on Walnut Hill Her attitude, as she sank upon a carefully tended mound, denoted deep dejection She had not yet learned that the ”tree of death is fruited with the love of God,” neither the joy of the ”afterward,” but knew only the grope of a stricken soul