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An Appeal to the Youth
garden seeds, set hours to read and improve your minds. Spend no
precious moments in bickerings and finding fault with each other. This
disturbs your own happiness, and pleases the enemy. Remember the
eye of God is ever upon you. Endeavor to please him in all your acts.
Make your peace with him while you are in health. Your parents have
a deep interest for you. Our greatest desire is that you may be subjects
of grace. You will never be saved against your will. You must prize
salvation, and submit to be saved in the Lord’s appointed way. Humble
repentance of sin, and faith in Jesus as your Saviour, will be required
on your part, and He is faithful that hath promised. He will accept you,
and give you of his salvation. If you deny yourselves in many things,
and refrain from sin for a season only, this will not be sufficient. It is
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a life of obedience which will please God and be acceptable to him.
Delay not to make an entire consecration to God, that your names may
be recorded in the Lamb’s book of life.
Your affectionate Mother.
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My Dear Willie,
I have just finished a letter to your brothers, and will now write
you a few lines. I was glad to hear that you loved to visit grandpa and
grandma White. Tell them that we have not forgotten them. We wish
them to have a special care for their health. We hope they are well and
happy. You must do your part to make them happy. They love you,
Willie, very much, because you are not mischievous, and do not make
them trouble by disarranging grandfather’s tools. You should never
grieve them by being noisy, for this often annoys aged people.
Be mild and gentle. You know that you dislike very much to play
with rough, noisy boys. You feel annoyed with their ways. When you
notice their failures, never do what you dislike in them. You have been
a great comfort to us, because you have always been so anxious to
do as we wished you to. This is right. You will be happy as long as
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you possess this spirit, and are so obedient. Visit your grandparents
often, and study to make them happy, and they will always love you.
Don’t forget to pray, Willie. You love to go aside with your mother
and spend a few moments in prayer. You can do the same although I