Fireside Readings for Happy Homes (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: them you may give me what the sheep were worth when they got into your field, and pay me six per cent, interest on the amount, and go off and let me alone." The man counted out the value of the sheep and the i nterest on the amount, and laid it down, and then doubled the dose and laid as much more down beside it, and went his way, leaving a load on his neighbor's heart, almost as heavy as that which he himself had borne. The full results of that scene, are only known to God. One thing is certain, the infidel was seen to frequent the house of prayer, and we may be sure tliat he afterwards believed there was some power in the Gospel, and that all Christians were not hypocrites. A Mother's Counsel. Mary Clarke, wife of the learned Adam Clarke, was the mother of six sons and six daughters; and the love she bore to them would astonish many of those who are "without natural affection,"in these last perilous days. She once wrote: "My dear little ones engross by far the largest portion of my time; and the pleasing satisfaction which results from nursing them is my greatest reward. Next to my husband, I view them as the most precious boon of heaven; and I do heartily love them as the gift of God. Neither can you, T am sure, conceive the tender feelings of a mother's breast. I would not be without these children for all the earth could offer." To one of her sons, she wrote the following instructive words:? " Do nothing carelessly, and then, I venture to say, that with the ability you have, you will do most things well. Be exact in all you do, nor let the least matter pass you unexamined. In your reading, too, investigate your subject, and be not satisfied with skimming on the surface of things, nor make an attempt to grasp the whole, wit...