Do to others, as you would have others do to you. Be more ready to forgive, than to return an injury. If you would be revenged on your enemies, let your life be blameless.

He must be utterly abandoned, who disregards the good opinion of the world.

Religion does not require a gloomy, but a cheerful aspect.

Your countenance will be agreeable, in proportion to the goodness of your heart.

Never give pain to any man, without a prospect of doing good.

Sentences divided by two or three COMMAS.

LESSON XXI.

As you value the approbation of Heaven, or the esteem of the world, cultivate the love of virtue.

Be armed with courage against thyself, against thy passions, and against flatterers.

Riches, honours, pleasures, steal away the heart from religion.

Forget not that the brightest part of thy life is nothing but a flower, which is almost as soon withered, as blown. Prepare for thyself, by the purity of thy manners, and thy love of virtue, a place in the happy seats of peace.

Of a SEMICOLON.

Let the reader stop a little longer at this point, than at a comma, and relieve his voice; but at the same time keep it steadily supported.

Sentences divided by a SEMICOLON.

LESSON XXII.

Perform your duty faithfully; for this will procure you

the blessing of heaven.

Make a proper use of

time; your

for the loss of it can

never be retrieved.

Enjoy pleasure; but enjoy it with moderation.

Use no indecent language; for indecency is want of

sense.

Sport not with pain and distress; nor use the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Be not proud; for pride is odious to God and man. Never repine at your fortune; for this is the sign of an unthankful mind.

Envy not the appearance of happiness in any man; for you know not his secret griefs.

Murmur not at the afflictions you suffer; for afflictions may be blessings in disguise.

Of a COLON.

This point requires a pause, something longer than a semicolon; but not so complete a one as a period. Pronounce the words immediately before it steadily and firmly; and, as it were, suspend your voice for a moment, in such a manner, as to give the hearer a proper intimation, that the sentence is not completed.

Sentences divided by a COLON.

LESSON XXIII.

Apply thyself to learning: it will redound much to thy

honour.

Read the Scriptures: they are the dictates of divine

wisdom.

Fear God: he is thy creator and preserver.

Keep close to thy business: it will keep thee from wickedness, poverty, and shame.

Harbour no malice in thy heart: it will be a viper in thy bosom.

Do not despise human life: it is the gift of God.

Do not insult a poor man: his misery entitles him to pity.

All mankind want assistance: all therefore ought to assist.

Cherish a spirit of benevolence: it is a god-like virtue. A tear is sometimes the indication of a noble mind: Jesus wept.

Of a PERIOD.

Here let the reader make a full stop, and take his breath with ease and freedom.

LESSON XXIV.

Truth is the basis of every virtue. It is the voice of reason. Let its precepts be religiously obeyed. Never transgress its limits. Every deviation from truth is criminal. Abhor a falsehood. Let your words be ingenuous. Sincerity possesses the most powerful charm. It acquires the veneration of mankind. Its path is security and peace. It is acceptable to the Deity. Blessed are the pure in heart.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;

Which God, above three thousand years ago, delivered to Moses upon Mount Sinai, the people of Israel standing round about the mountain, and the mountain quaking and burning with fire, and a thick cloud resting upon the mountain, and the voice of a trumpet being heard exceeding loud, so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.-Exod. xix. 16.

I.

Thou shalt have none other gods but me.

II.

Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, not the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the

:

earth beneath, or in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.

III.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

IV.

Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day: six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.

V.

Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI.

Thou shalt do no murder.

VII.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII.

Thou shalt not steal.

IX.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

A short History of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ.

Eighteen hundred and seven years ago, Jesus Christ was born into the world at Bethlehem, a city of Judea. His birth was attended with several wonderful circumstanees his mother was a pure virgin: an angel appearing to a company of shepherds, declared to them that on that day was born a Saviour who was Christ the Lord: an extraordinary star was seen by certain wise men in the east, which guided them to the place where he was laid. lived with his parents as a private person until he was thirty

of

He

years age at which time he showed himself to his countrymen the Jews, and declared himself to be that extraordinary person of whom the prophets spake, and whom they had been long expecting; that he was sent amongst them by God; that he was the person appointed to judge the quick and the dead at the end of the world: that all mankind shall come forth again after their death, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation; that there will be no respect of persons: that men will be rewarded and punished in different degrees, every one according to the deeds done in the flesh.

He proved that God was with him, that what he said was true, and would actually come to pass, and that he was really the person he declared himself to be, by working various astonishing miracles, by healing all manner of diseases with a word, by making the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, the lame to walk, by restoring sight to persons born blind, by walking on the sea, by quieting a