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gray hairs — the first commandment with promise. If, 

 his quiver full of arrows, he be the fond father of many 

 hopes, "provoke not your children to wrath,'' but bring 

 them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. If 

 childless, keep God's covenant, and He will give you a 

 place and a name " better than of sons and of daughters." 

 If master, " forbear threatening/' knowing that there is 

 no respect of persons in heaven. If servant, be obedient 

 to your master, not with eye-service, but in singleness of 

 heart — inasmuch as ye all know that whatsoever good thing 

 any man doeth, " the same he shall receive of the Lord, 

 whether he be bond or free." — The Rod and the Gun. 



