Plain letters to parents of Sunday scholars

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Benjamin L. Green, 1850 - 127 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 76 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
الصفحة 107 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
الصفحة 37 - ... this is the only strong and rational foundation of a religious education, without which, both precept and example will be ineffectual. But when this is thoroughly done, then a child is capable of being governed by the reason and piety of its parents, till its own understanding comes to maturity, and the principles of religion have taken root in the mind.
الصفحة 70 - I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
الصفحة 6 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 37 - This is still more evident, if we further consider that religion is nothing else than the doing the will of God, and not our own...
الصفحة 121 - O hasten, mercy to implore, And stay not for the morrow's sun ; For fear thy season should be o'er Before this evening's stage be run.
الصفحة 121 - • And stay not for the morrow's sun ; The longer Wisdom you despise, The harder is she to be won.
الصفحة 36 - In order to form the minds of children, the first thing to be done is to conquer their will, and bring them to an obedient temper. To inform the understanding is a work of time, and must with children proceed by slow degrees, as they are able to bear it; but the subjecting the will is a thing which must be done at once; and the sooner the better.
الصفحة 108 - The kindest and the happiest p"air Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

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