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the worse for your example and influence. Immediately you neglect the Home Light, your children may be dashed upon the rocks of destruction.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

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HOME.

"Home's not merely four square walls,

Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where affection calls

Filled with shrines the heart hath builded.

Home-go watch the faithful dove
Sailing 'neath the heavens above us;
Home is where there's one to love-
Home is where there's one to love us.

Home's not merely roof and room;
It needs something to endear it;

Home is where the heart can bloom-
Where there's some kind lip to cheer it.

What is home with none to meet,

None to welcome, none to greet us?

Home is sweet, and only sweet,

When there's one we love to meet us."

YE SHALL KEEP MY SABBATHS.

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YE SHALL KEEP MY SABBATHS.

"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 Sabbath day, and hallowed it." God is the bestower of the Sabbath, and He has shown us His value of it by resting on that day from all the work which He had made.

It is a day that God has set apart for holy purposes; therefore, we should call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, not doing our own ways, nor finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words, but delight ourselves in the Lord. By giving us this day, God has laid upon all a vast and solemn responsibility. He commands, saying, "Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and

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