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he was dirty ; and when he cried, his mother sympathised with him, 

 and did not laugh at him. Great a*e the sufferings that his mother 

 endured for him while he was an infant. 



Therefore, when a man is grown up, he must take care of his 

 mother ; if he does not take care of his mother, if he does not iur- 

 nish her food and drink, he will suffer for his sin. He will he 

 afflicted, and become poor. 



Your father left your mother in the house to watch you, and he 

 went out and worked hard for you and your mother, that you might 

 have food and grow, and that your mother might have leisure to 

 watch you. If your mother had not had food provided for her, she 

 would have had to leave you in the house, and you might have fallen 

 out of it and been killed. In order therefore that your mother might 

 take care of you, your father went out to work, and endured burning 

 heat, and bore the drenching rain. 



Therefore, children and grandchildren, when you grow up, you 

 must take care of your father, and provide him with food and drink. 

 He that does not take care of his father, will suffer for his sin. When 

 the God of heaven and earth looks down upon him, he will punish 

 him for his sin, and he will become poor and wretched. If he works, 

 he will not succeed in obtaining anything, and he will become sickly, 



weak, and helpless. 



Humility.— Children and grandchildren, he who does not humble 

 himself, but exalts himself, and regards his relatives as nobody, and 

 makes forays and extorts from his brethren without cause, and does as 

 he likes, and is proud, and beats others for nothing, he will not live 



to old age, he will die young. 



Because he acts proudly, and extorts from his brethren without cause, 

 the God of heaven and earth will look down upon him, and will say, 

 " This man has done thee no evil, thou oughtest not to have done 

 evil to him." Then the man that exalted himself, and did the evil, 

 will suffer punishment for his sin, and he will become poor and 

 wretched. If he has kyee-zees, he will lose them, if he has money, 

 he will not enjoy it ; and though he should have sons and daughters, 

 they will not live to help him. They will die without apparent 

 cause, and he will be left wretched and childless alone, unhappy, un- 

 able to work, and without means to purchase anything. 



