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surround unwary youth, God's goodness hath preserved you unpolluted, and that you live a blessing to yourselves, a comfort to them, an ornament to religion and virtue; and, from your obedience to your parents, are likely to obtain the approbation of God, and be blessed with length of days, even an eternity of happy ages in the land of rest, and peace.
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Advice to Servants.
INDULGE not unseemly things in thy master's children, nor refuse them what is fitting; for one is the highest unfaithfulness, and the other indiscretion as well as disrespect.
Do thine own work honestly and cheerfully; and when that is done help thy fellow, that so another time he may help thee.
If thou wilt be a good servant thou must be true; and thou canst not be true if thou defraudest thy master.
A master may be defrauded many ways by a servant, as in time, care, pains, money, trust.
He who neglects his work robes his master; since he is fed and paid as if he did his best: and he who is not as diligent in the absence, in the presence of his master, cannot be a true servant.
