Cardiphonia, Or the Utterance of the Heart: In the Course of a Real Correspondence (Classic Reprint)

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The narrative which M r N ewton published of his early years, serves to throw considerable light on many important subjects' 111 religion; and that eventful portion of his history accounts for much of what con tinned to distinguish him in his after life. His mother was a pious woman; and though she died before he was seven years of age, he derived considerable benefit from her instructions. She stored his mind with pas sages of scripture, and with religious catechisms and hymns, and oflen commended him with many tears and prayers unto 6011. After her death, however, he was permitted to mingle with careless and profane children, ppd he soon lefei'iged their ways. The instruo tio'ns (if his 69the1', haweyahzétfld not always be for gétteii; inn! He was' often disturbed with convictions. And from this let Wenté team to be assiduous' m ln structing the'ir childre'q It 'is no small matter to make the path of guilt uripleasant. Should no fruit appear at the ti1_ne shshgld tim yb'gng'even plunge into proni gacy, yet the iiistmct'iéns ofa'father or a mother will at times rise before them like departed ghosts, will imbitter the ways of transgression, and make convie tion to flash upon the conscience, in spite of all their efl'orrs against it, and may ultimately be the means of reclaiming them.

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