The Sunday school.

Date:
[1820?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Sunday school. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    hundred children ? This will appear ftill more important if we confider the. good done, not as fruit but feed; if we take into the account how many yet unborn may become chriftians, in conicquence of our making thefe children chriftians. For how can we calculate the number which may be hereafter trained for heaven by thole very children we are going to teach, when they themfelves fhall become parents, and you and 1 are dead and forgotten ? To be lure, by my parting from Betty, my pea-loup will not be quite fo well flavoured, nor my linen fo neatly got up; but rhe day is fall approaching when ail this will iignify but little; but it W'ill not fignity a little whether one hundred immortal louls were the better for my making this petty facrifice. Betty Crew is a real Chriftian, has excellent fenfe: and had a good edu- cation from my mother. She has alfo had a little fort of training, for when the poor children come to the parfonage for the broth on a Saturday evening, Betty is ufed to appoint them all to come at the fame time ; and after (he has filled their pitchers fhe ranges them round her in the garden, and examines them in their catechifm. She is juft and fair in dealing out the broth and beef, not making my favour to the Barents depend on the Hull of their chil- dren.
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