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 New Teſtament, how wonderfully faithful ſervants were often delivered out of trouble, or ſupported under it. But above all you would, by reading the Scriptures, learn to look forwards to a world of everlaſting happineſs; and the hope of immoral joys would ſtrengthen your mind to endure with patience all the evils of life which will be ended in a few ſhort years.

Mrs. Philips thanked the lady for her good advice, and ſaid ſhe would certainly follow it in every reſpect. Mrs. Andrews then left her, in order to perform the promiſe ſhe had made of paying her debts.

The good woman's ſpirits were quite revived by the kindneſs of the lady, and ſhe lifted up her heart in thankfulness to for ſending her ſuch ſeaſonable relief, and reſolved to truſt in his mercy for the future; ſhe then laid her little infant into the cradle, and leaving the eldeſt to rock it, with a ſtrict injunction not to leave it till ſhe returned, ſhe ſtept with all poſſible haſte to the butcher's and bought a bit of mutton, which ſhe put in the ſaucepan for her huſband's dinner.

Benjamin Philips, who know nothing of the lady's viſit, left his work with a heavy heart: he had as yet received no wages, and not having a ſingle penny in his pocket, he dreaded to ſee his wife, yet he dared not to go to the alehouſe, because he was afraid