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that they are but sojourners and pilgrims on the earth,
that they are to be looking continually and preparing
continually for the city that hath foundation, whose
maker and builder is
"Till my life shall end, do thou oh
"to be my councellor and friend: On my heart let thy
"precepts be inscribed, and let thy great example be
"my constant endeavour to imitate; so that I may
"not, in any way, be a hindrance to any of the Lambs
"of thy flock, by inconsistant conduct. Give me
"grace and wisdom, so to act and to speak with the children
"and young people with whom I live, that they may
"be constrained so indeed to think, the paths of religion
"are ways of pleasantness and peace. Keep them from
"the many temptations they will meet with in the
"world, and may some good seed be sown while they are
"here in each heart, though it may not produce
"fruit at once. Yea let us all live in the enjoy-
"ment of that peace, which a stranger entermedleth
"not with; and which thou alone canst impart. Let us
"live unto thy praise and glory, and hereafter meet in
"that place, Where saints enraptured view their
"
"less grace; --That happy land, where seraphs tune
"the lyre-- and
These beautiful petitions in behalf of the little ones