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 given it for our own good, for our improvment in virtue and piety; how singular it that man should choose to incur his frown, to gain the applause of a  world. You may riot in vice for a and try to believe religion a lie, but the  will come when you will not be able to  yourself from conviction, evil company  represent religion dull, gloomy and  but all who have tried it have declared  yoke to be easy and its burden light;  though many who walk in the ways of  suffer affliction, the Lord is at  that loves them. Should this little meet the eye of any who have been  with a religious education, and who are  danger of having the good seed plucked  let them beware of the first step to vice  small it may seem, and learn to  the temptations of designing men. Graham was once all could be wished, had he guarded against the company  proved so fatal, we should not have had  painful task of recording his premature  among those whose death we have also.