of his name, (though only sixteen,) then how can he believe, that chance could have made and put together all those *millions and millions of things that are now so exactly fitted to his good! That my son may look at every thing around him, see what fine eyes he has got! and a little pug nose, to smell the sweet *flowers! and pretty ears, to hear sweet sounds! and lovely mouth for his bread and butter! and O, the little ivory teeth to cut it for him! and the dear little tongue, to prattle with his father! and *precious little hands and fingers to hold his play-things! and beautiful little feet for him to run about upon! and when my little rogue of a son is *tired with running about, then the still night comes for him to lie down and his mother sings, and the little *crickets *chirp him to sleep! and as soon as he has slept enough, and 'jumps up fresh and strong as a little buck, there the sweet golden light is ready for him! When he looks down into the water, there he sees the beautiful *silver fishes for him! and up in the trees, there are the apples, and peaches, and thousands of sweet fruits for him! and all, all around him, whereever my dear boy looks, he sees every thing just to his wants and wishes; the *bubbling springs with cool sweet water for him to drink! and the wood to make him sparkling fires when he is cold! and beautiful horses for him to ride! and strong oxen to work for him! and the good cows to give him milk! and bees to make sweet honey for his sweeter mouth! and the little lambs, with snowy wool, for beautiful *clothes for him! These, and all the ten thousand thousand other good things, more than my son can ever think of, and all

Fate, får, fåll, fåt-mẻ, mêt-pine, pỉn—nỏ, mỏve, nor, nôt—tùbe, tủůb, büll—öil, pöünd—thin, Tнis.

so exactly *fitted to his use and delight-Now how could chance ever have done all this for my little son? Oh George !"—

He would have gone on; but George, who had "hung upon his father's words with "looks and eyes of alldevouring attention, here "broke out

"Oh, Pa, "that's enough! that's enough! It can't be chance, that made and gave me all these things." "What was it then, do you think, my son?"

Indeed, Pa, I don't know, unless it was God Almighty!"

"Yes, George, he it was, my son, and nobody else." Well, but, Pa, (continued George,) does God Almighty give me every thing? Don't you give me some things, Pa?"

"Oh how can I give you any thing, George! I, who have nothing on earth that I can "call my own; no, not even the breath I draw!"

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'High, Pa! *is n't that great big house your house, and this garden, and the horses "yonder, and oxen, and sheep, and trees, and every thing, is n't all yours, Pa?"

"Oh no! my son! no! why, you make me 'shrink. into nothing, George, when you talk of all these "belonging to me, who can't even "make a *grain of sand! Oh, how could I, my son, have given life to those great oxen and horses, when I can't give life even to a fly-no! for if the "poorest fly were killed, it is not your father, George, nor all the men in the world, that could ever make him alive again!"

At this, George fell into a 'profound silence, while his "pensive looks showed that his youthful soul was *laboring with some *idea never *felt before.

Fåte, får, fåll, fåt-me, mêt-pine, pin-no, move, nor, not—tube, tůb, büll—öil, pôünd—thin, Tнis.

No. 3.-" Circumstances alter Cases."

In many things which we do, *we ought not only to *consider the mere naked action itself, but the persons who act, the persons toward whom, the time when, the place where, the manner how, the *end for which the action is done, together with the *effects that must or may follow, and all other surrounding circumstances: these things must necessarily be taken into our view, in order to determine whether the action, which is *indifferent in itself, be either lawful or *unlawful, good or evil, wise or foolish, "decent or indecent, proper or improper, as it is so *circumstantiated.

Let me give a plain *instance for the "illustration of this matter.

Mario kills a dog, which, *considered merely in itself, seems to be an indifferent action.

Now the dog was Timon's, and not his own; this makes it look unlawful.

But Timon bade him do it; this gives it an appearance of lawfulness again.

It was done at *church, and in time of divine service; these circumstances, added, cast on it an air of *irreligion.

But the dog flew at Mario, and put him in danger of his life; this relieves the *seeming *impiety of the action. Yet Mario might have escaped by flying thence; therefore the action appears to be improper.

But the dog was known to be mad; this further *circumstance makes it almost necessary that the dog