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pend this in extra improvements, may be the most a 

 vantageous investment, provided he owns his farm, 

 has a long lease, not otherwise. 



To atu-ud markets and .ucessa 



part of a farmer's business ; but to a young man it is 

 a very dangerous part ; it is too apt to give the ev 

 habits of drinking and dissipation : evil company 

 every where to be found, and many a fanner \ 

 been ruined by a want of a careful selection 01 

 quaintance, and by not avoiding the contra^ 

 habits which cannot be indulged with safety. As 

 Sc.fe/uard against all evils of this tendency, an ha- 

 bitual attention to the duties of religion, will ha 

 more efficacy than all the philosophic morality win 

 so much abounds upon the tongues of many : by r< 

 ligion, I mean that of the national church, the most 

 excellent that has been any where established for the 

 instruction of the human species. He can have no 

 true friend that will not advise him to keep the Sab- 

 bath piously an, "y himself, and make his family 

 do the same: many a judge has traced the origin of 

 crimes that ;ht labourers to the gallows, to 

 Sabbath-breaking; and if the soun . . non 

 fan. 11 explored, they would be t 

 to ti ^ng. Serve God on Sunday as y 

 If on M ; if you arc a pagan, a del 

 a moral philosopher, you are, to a certain degr 

 in reason, answvraMe for the paganism, deism, 



ophy of your children and servants; if 

 ch; urely the same for their Christianity ; 



you may gain by this, but cannot lose. 



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