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labour of the mind to understand it :

for, the rule of life, given by the allwise Creator to his rational creatures, the largest part of whom are, and perhaps ever will be, in great comparative ignorance, on account of their necessary habits of industry and labour, must be very plain and intelligible, or it could never be learned it could never be

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practised. If one Bible accompanied two or three hundred copies of such a selection, much expense would be saved; at the same time, there might be a sufficient number of copies of the greater work for reference, and for the examination of those who have leisure, and wish to be acquainted with every part of the sacred history. The common mariner, without any depth of astronomical or mathematical learning, braving

the winds and tempests, sails directly from north to south, from east to west, from port to port, by means of the knowledge he has of two or three of the most useful properties of the compass, and the position of a few of the brightest constellations which glitter amongst the myriads of stars that shine by night, above and around him. A similar observance of the revealed will of God (which, I trust, few people will brand me with presumption and folly for calling the best part of the Bible) would carry the religious man in safety, through the perils and dangers of this world, and place him in the regions of a blessed immortality.

I made the following selection from the Bible, some time ago, for the use

of a numerous family of children. The first part they generally understood, without difficulty, in their early years; — their often reading it has impressed it upon their minds, and, I hope, they have been lastingly benefited by it. I print it with a view to benefit others, whether at home or abroad-whether the children of the sincere worshipper of God, or the children of the unenlightened idolater, on whom the rays of truth are just beginning to dawn. God has declared, "that all shall know

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him, from the least to the greatest." "If "I be lifted up from the earth," says the author of the Christian dispensation, "will draw all men unto me." Every man, therefore, ought to promote " the work "of God," and the interest of his fellowcreatures, according to his knowledge

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