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 of this on your own case. You have been tempted, and have wandered from your father's house, in pursuit of the fol- lies and sinful pleasures of life; and oh that, like this child, you may feel your lost and wretched condition. Night, the dark and doleful night of death, is coming on, and dangers are thickening around you; dangers from which there is only one can deliver you. You know that you have a Father in heaven, a forgotten, and neglected, and despised Father, but a Father still; one who is moved with com- passion towards you, and waits to be gracious unto you. And, oh, if you will