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father and mother still leave you under my care. The oppor- 

 tunities which we have lately enjoyed, have not, I trust, been 

 left unimproved by any of us, but have proved to us all the 

 source of instruction and advantage. My great aim in our 

 conversations, h'as been early to accustom you, to place all 

 instruction upon a religious basis; to render all knowledge 

 such as will make you wise unto salvation, and, above all 

 things, to recognise the God of nature in all his works, to 

 see 



Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.' 



" If God be robbed of his glory, how can we expect a 

 blessing upon our labors? and, as we are all called upon to 

 walk by faith, and not by sight, it is essential to lead you to 

 see God in all things, and to trace him who is himself invisi- 

 ble, in those outward manifestations of his power and good- 

 ness, which are within the reach of our finite observation.* 



" Such has been the object of all my instructions; such, I 

 trust, under God's blessing, may be its result. 



" Then may I, indeed, look forward to the highest reward 

 which an anxious parent can hope for (for as a parent I feel 

 towards you all), that of being permitted to witness the suc- 

 cess of my hnmble labors, by seeing you happy in this world, 

 and being allowed, through the merits of our Saviour, to say, 

 when we all meet in the presence of our Maker * Of them 

 whom thou gavest me have lost none. Behold I and the 

 children whom the Lord hath given me.' 51 



* Mayo. 



THE END. 



