on earth. I would have your mind cultivated by learning and science; your manners polished by complaisance; your industry crowned with success in short, I should be thankful to see you living in comfort, respected and respectable; but above every thing else, I pray, I desire, I long, that you may partake of that "faith, without which it is impossible to please God;" and that "holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." I have fixed my aim for you high as heaven; and covet for you everlasting life. I love your society on earth, and wish to enjoy it through eternity in the presence of God. I hope I am travelling to that goodly land, of which God hath said, he will give it to us for an inheritance, and I want you to accompany me thither. Reduce me not to the mere consolation of David, who said, Although my house be not so with God, yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant, which is ordered in all things and sure. Rather let me have to say with Joshua, "As for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord."

May it be granted me to see you choosing the way of wisdom and piety, and remembering your Creator in the days of your youth: giving to all your virtues that stability and beauty which can be derived only from religion; first receiving by faith, and then adorning by holiness, the doctrine of God your Saviour. Then will my highest ambition, as a parent, be gratified, my most painful solicitude relieved. shall watch your progress amidst the vicissitudes of life, with a calm and tranquil mind, assured that your piety will be your protector amidst the dangers of prosperity; or your comforter

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