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JONAS HOBSON'S ADVICE TO HIS 
CHILDREN. ♦ 
A.N old man, whose name was Jonas 
Hobson, had supported a large family with 
industry ; and had endeavoured to bring 
them up in the fear of God. He instructed 
them with all the knowledge he had him- 
self, but chiefly gave them that best instruc- 
tion, — a good example. He wtnt constantly 
to church, read his Bible on Sundays, was 
gentle and kind to every body ; was never 
known either to swear or to get drurik, and 
prayed morning and evening, for God's 
blessing on himself and his family. 
Being worn out at length by age and 
hard labour, and finding death approaching, 
he called his sons together, who were now 
young men, and raising himself in his bed, 
he thus spoke to them : 
" What little advice I could give yon r 
my dear children, has, I hope, by the 
