made the birds, He who made us, my child, the fish, the fly and the worm too, and all in which there is life: And when he faw all that he had made, he faid, they were all good. Then, my child, be fure that thou hurt them not for thy play. He who made thee and them, loves a mind that is good and kind. Hear when the bird fings in the tree; The Lord, who is judge of all men, will be fure to judge us at the laft day; and, as our deeds have been in this life, fo will our lot be in the next; and woe to thofe who die in fin. C The time will come, when all men must be laid in the duft; and though the grave shall hold our bones, yet the foul will not die. Let us not waste one hour of our time in vain talk or bad deeds; but let us watch and pray. Let the youth lend an ear to the words of the wife king, who faid, be not wife in thy own eyes, but put thy truft in hini who made thee; he is ever near to them who fear him. We are at no time hid from him who made us; for he knows all that we fay and do; all the day long he fees how we fpend our time he will love them that fear him, and blefs them that put their truft in him. Let the time paft put thee in mind of the ill thou halt done; and in time to come, try to do ill no more. TABLE X.. Words of two Syllables, accented on the first. The following have the Vowel of the accented Syllable long. The Vowels in the following Words are all short. Seek the Lord, and ferve him in thy youth; love him with all thy heart, and that all thy days; pray that thou mayeft hold out to the end; for it is the end that crowns all. A good child will try to do all that is right; he will hate no one; but love to do good even to his foes. A bad man, or a bad child, can have no true peace day nor night. Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world; for if we love the world, the love of him who made us is not in us. Let thy joy, my child, be in him who made us, and in them who love to do what is right in his fight. |