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all persons is to be ready to oblige all persons as far as you can; and to forgive those who have injured you; and to feel a sincere desire for the happiness of all persons. Justice and kindness ought always to go together; for justice is but a rough virtue without kindness, and kindness is but a weak virtue without justice; and people will despise one who is not just, and dislike one who is not kind. You cannot be completely and consistently kind, unless you are just; and you cannot be largely and nobly just, unless you are kind. Imagine yourselves going along in a road, with Justice and Kindness for your constant travelling companions and guides. Justice always speaks to you plainly, and prevents your injuring anybody or anything that you meet in the way, and sees that you pay exactly all the expenses of your journey; and Kindness softly asks you to pardon those who may injure you, and now and then urges you, with a tender smile on her face, to step a little out of your way to help those who may need your assistance. And Justice never frowns on Kindness; and Kindness never interferes with Justice. I think that if you observe what Jus

tice and Kindness both say to you in the journey of life, other people will be glad to walk with you, and be sorry to part with you; and that when you get to the end, you will look back on your course with satisfaction and joy.

I have now explained to you the three rules of being good: which are, to love and obey your parents; to speak the truth always; and to be just and kind to all persons. To be good, is to obey and please your Creator, who made you to be good and happy; and to try to please and obey your Creator is one method of remembering him, and the best way of showing that you do remember him truly. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, and then it will be easy and delightful for you to remember and serve him, in the days of your manhood, and of your old age, if it should please him to spare your lives. And, O my children, let me assure you, that it is but of little consequence how long or how short a time you are permitted to live on the earth, if, while you live here, you remember your Creator, and do the things which please him.

I will close this sermon by repeating to you

a hymn, which is on the same subject, that of remembering our Creator in the days of youth. If you are not already acquainted with it, you had better commit it to memory.

"In the soft season of thy youth,
In nature's smiling bloom,
Ere age arrive, and trembling wait
Its summons to the tomb;

"Remember thy Creator, God;
For him thy powers employ;
Make him thy fear, thy love, thy hope,
Thy confidence, thy joy.

"He shall defend and guide thy course
Through life's uncertain sea,
Till thou art landed on the shore
Of blessed eternity.

"Then seek the Lord betimes, and choose

The path of heavenly truth;

The earth affords no lovelier sight

Than a religious youth."

SERMON III.

GOD SEES AND KNOWS YOU.

THE LORD'S THRONE IS IN HEAVEN; HIS EYES BEHOLD, HIS EYELIDS TRY, THE CHILDREN OF MEN.

THE above words are from the fourth verse of the Eleventh Psalm. They mean that God is over all things in his greatness and majesty, and that from the height of his exalted power, or throne, he is not only able to see all men, but to see into their hearts, and examine their thoughts, and try them, whether they are good or evil. The wonderful knowledge of God, by which he beholds all that we do and all that we think, is a subject which children ought to consider, and which I will ask them to consid

er now.

I told you in my last sermon, that you should remember your Creator in the days of your youth, and I told you in what manner you should remember him. I told you that you must think of him, and try to please him, and that you could only please him by being

good. And I told you what it was to be good. And now I wish to impress upon your minds the important truth, that God certainly knows whether you are good or not. Everything which you do to please God will be noticed by him, if it is ever so little; and if it is not noticed by any one else, still it is noticed by your Creator; for he sees all that you do, and hears all that you say, and is acquainted with all that you think. He who made you never loses sight of you; and as he made your mind as well as your body, he sees what your mind is doing as well as what your body is doing.

It may seem surprising to you, that God should be able to see all the people, the many millions of people, who live on the earth, and know all that they are doing, and all their most secret feelings and thoughts besides. But you must remember that he made all these people, and gave them the power to think, and that he made the world in which they live, and those worlds without number which we call the heavenly bodies; and then you will perceive that it must be very easy for the Being who did all this to see all his human

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