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 with disappointment, your kind interposition will probably secure you their esteem, which they will on every occasion demonstrate by a faithful discharge of those services in which they may be respectively employed. By these means therefore you will preserve order, harmony, and respect; you will most likely present many of those disquitudes that are subversive of all social happiness, and which are so common in domestic life.

Let your morning sacrifice, therefore, repeatedly ascend as a sincere token of the gratitude you feel for the mercies of another thought; and your evening devotion as a renowed testimony of the sense you have of God's kind protection and goodness through vicissitudes of another day.

Night may be properly considered as an problem of death-as a pause stop in the progress of life, and in these views it is right, before we enter its solemnities, to recognise transactions of the day-to mark those duties that have been entirely ommitted or carelessly