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if a man's heart is in the right place. If so be that he has tasted that the Lord is gracious, he will be coming to him; and, as a new-born babe, desire the sincere milk of the word, that he may grow thereby, as the Apostle Peter speaks. Too much religion! Why, religion is happiness; and you never yet knew any one have too much happiness.
Wm. Well, after the morning prayer and reading the Bible, what then?
Rob. Why, then I come down, and find the children all clean, wife ready with the breakfast; and as soon as that is over, we prepare for family worship, which we begin with a hymn; the little ones all join—I set the tune, and my Sarah has got a pretty voice. We often begin the Sabbath with
"Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes."
Then we all kneel down, and pray for a Sabbath day's blessing, never forgetting to commend our minister to the grace of God; that he would be pleased to give him the tongue of the learned, that he may know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.
Wm. I should think you have had praying and singing enough for one day. I should be prayed and sung to death, with so much religion.
Rob. Enough! man. The best of it is not yet begun. There is the public worship of the sanetuary: and when the hour arrives, my my heart is ready to cry out with David, "I
