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Sketch of the Author’s Life 

The following sketch of my past his- 
tory, which, at your request, I furnish, 
can be of little interest or va any 
farther than perhaps leading the minds of 
Christian parents properly to estimate the 
importance of the duties devolving upon them, and 

begetting a higher appreciation of the value of 

the weekly rest, as affording an opportunity to all Christians, however poor their circumstances 

or laborious their employment, of imparting instruction to their offspring. It may tend also to show that no Christian mother with the Bible in 

her hand, and possessing the power of reading and understanding the blessed truths it reveals, can plead excuse if she allow her children to grow up in ignorance of those truths, the knowledge of which would lead them in safety and happiness through all the temptations to which youth is exposed in this world of folly and wickedness. 

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