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among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life.

Joshua iv. 5--7. "And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut of before the ark of the covenant of the Lord: when it passed over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever." (verses 21-23.)

Psalm 1xxviii. 2—8. "I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings, of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born;

who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God."

Isaiah xxviii. 9, 10. "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breast. For precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, here a little and there a little."

Joel i. 2, 3. "Hear this, ye old men; and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."

Luke i. 17. "And he shall go before him, in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

Eph. vi. 4. "And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

1 Tim. iii. 2-4. "A bishop must be blameless -one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity."

GOD HAS GIVEN PROMISES

OF

PECULIAR CARE AND PROTECTION

TO

FATHERLESS CHILDREN.

EXODUS Xxii. 22-24.

"Ye shall not afflict any

widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."

Deut. x. 17, 18. "For the Lord your God is God of Gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and the widow."

Psalm x. 14. "The poor committeth himself unto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherless." Psalm xxvii. 10. "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up."

"A father of the fatherless,

Psalm lxviii. 5, 6. and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation, he setteth the solitary in families."

Psalm cxlvi. 9. "The Lord preserveth the strangers, he relieveth the fatherless and widows."

Prov. xxiii. 10, 11. "Remove not the old landmark, and enter not into the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is mighty, he shall plead their cause with thee."

Jer. xlix. 11. "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."

Hosea xiv. 3. mercy."

Malachi iii. 5.

"In thee the fatherless findeth

"And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts."

THE

PATERNAL CHARACTER OF GOD.

THE LOVE OF GOD.

CHRISTIAN parents have the example of their Father, who is in heaven, given them as a model for their imitation in training their offspring.

God draws his children to himself, and leads them by the manifestation of the most tender love.

Deut. xxxii. 9-14. "The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye; As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with Him. He made him ride on the high

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