Isa. xlviii, 19. Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Jer. xxxv, 18, 19. And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you; Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Luke 1, 13. But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

Heb. xi, 12. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and, as the sand which is by the seashore, innumerable.

Hos. iv, 7. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

BIRTII.

hold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him: and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Exod. xxi, 22. If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Ruth iv, 13. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

2 Sam. xi, 5. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

1 Kings ill, 17, 18. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. And it came to pass, the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together, there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

2 Kings xv, 16. Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

1 Chron. il, 24. And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb

ephratah, then Abiah, Hezron's wife, bare him Ashur the father of

Tekoa.

went in to his wife, she conceived, 1 Chron. vil, 23. And when he and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Luke i, 24, 41. And after those

me as the clay; and wilt thon bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Job xv, 35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Ps. vii, 14. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

P3. xxil, 9, 10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me hope when 1 was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Ps. xlviii, 6. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Ps. lxxi, 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

Ps. cxxxix, 13-16. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Eccles. xi, 5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the works of God who maketh all. womb of her that is with child;

even so thou knowest not the

ALLUSIONS.

Isa. xiii, 8. And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isa. xxi, 8. Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of

it.

Isa. xxvi, 17, 18. Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the

time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverence in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isa. xlii, 14. I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. Isa. Ixvi, 7-9. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

Jer. iv, 31. For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the Voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of

murderers.

Jer. vi, 24. We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Jer. xxx, 6. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Jer. xlviii, 41. Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jer. 1, 43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish

took hold of him, and pangs, as of

a woman in travail.

Hosca xiii, 16. Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Amos i, 13. Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punish ment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

Micah iv, 9, 10. Now, why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king

in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Mark xiii, 17. But woe to them that are with child and to them that give suck, in those days!

John xvi, 21. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy. . . .

1 Tim. ii, 15. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.

Gen. xxxviii, 27-30. And it came to pass, in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out; and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called

Zarah.

TREATMENT OF CHILD AND

MOTHER.

Lev. xil, 2-8. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days: she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her

purifying be fulfilled. But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days. And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest; Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female. And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

Job iii, 16. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

I's. Iviii, 8.... Let every one of them pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Eccles. vi, 3-5. If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his

name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover, he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Hosea ix, 11, 14. As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

DEATH IN CHILD-BIRTH. Gen. XXXV, 16-19. And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to

Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

1 Sam. iv, 19, 20. And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. And about the time of her death the women

that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

Isa. xxxvii, 3. And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

BARRENNESS. Gen. xi, 30. But Sarai was ren; she had no child.

die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

Luke i, 7, 25. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren; and they both were now well stricken in years. Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

Job xxiv, 21. He evil-entreateth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow.

Isa. liv, 1, Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

Gal. iv, 26-28. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bar-bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Gen. xv, 2, 3. And Abram said, Lord GOD, What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless...

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Gen. xxix, 31. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel

was barren.

Judges xiii, 2. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

BARRENNESS HEALED BY

PRAYER.

Gen. xx, 17, 18. So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children. For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Gen. xxv, 21. And Isaac entreat1 Sam. i, 5, 6, 8. But unto Han-ed the LORD for his wife, because nah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

Gen. xxx, 22-24. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

2 Kings iv, 17. And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

Luke 1, 57, 58. Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth

a son. And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon. her; and they rejoiced with her.

BIRTH-DAY.

the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up

Gen. xl 20. And it came to pass

the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Job lii, 1-10. After this opened day perish wherein I was born, And Job spake, and said, Let the and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of their twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Matth. xiv, 6. But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

Mark vi, 21. And when a convenient day was come, that IIerod, on his birth-day, made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.

SPECIAL ATTACHMENT TO PLACE OF BIRTH. pass, when Rachel had born Gen. xxx, 25. And it came to Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Gen. xxxi, 3, 30. And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Exod. xviii, 27. And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

Num. x, 29, 30. And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law,

We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kin

dred.

Ruthi, 15. And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back un to her people, and unto her gods. 1 Kings xi, 21, 22. And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country. Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seckest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit, let me go in any wise.

Neh. ii, 3-5. And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are con

also: and she called his name Simeon. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. And she conceived

again, and bare a son; and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

And

Gen. xxx, 10-13, 18-21. Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob And Leah said, A troop a son. cometh: and she called his name And Zilpah, Leah's maid, Gad. And bare Jacob a second son. Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. And Leah conceived again, and bare

Jacob the sixth son. And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. And after

1 Chron. vil, 16. And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

Matth. 1, 25. And knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son: and he called his name JESUS.

Luke i, 59-63. And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. And he asked for a writing-table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. Aud they marvelled all.

NURSING.

Exod. ii, 5-9. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her

said unto me. For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said

unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

OTHER ALLUSIONS. Ezek. xxi, 30. Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. Mark vi, 4. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Luke iv, 24. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

John iv, 44. For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

NAMING THE CHILD.
CIRCUMCISION,

(See under ORDINANCES.) Gen. xxi, 3. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

called her name Dinah.

Gen. xxxv, 18. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, for she died, that she [Rachel] called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Gen. xxxviii, 3-5. And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Exod. ii, 10. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Ruth iv, 15, 17. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed; he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

1 Sam. i, 20. Wherefore it came

I have asked him of the LORD.

1 Chron. iv, 9. And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him,

and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

1 Kings iii, 19-21. And this woman's child died in the night; And she because she overlaid it. arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son which I did bear.

Num. xl, 12. Have I conceived

all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom (as a nursing-father beareth the sucking child) unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

Deut. 1, 31. And in the wilder ness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all

the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Ps. viii, 2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Isa. lxvi, 11-13. That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory: For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Hosea xi, 3. I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Matth. xxiv, 19. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days!

1 Cor. iii, 1, 2. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

1 Thess. ii, 7. But we were gen tle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.

Heb. v, 12, 13. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteous

ness: for he is a babe.

1 Peter ii, 2. As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

WEANING.

Gen. xxi, 8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

1 Sam. 1, 22-24. But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there

abide for ever. And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

teach knowledge? and whom shall Isa. xxviil, 9. Whom shall he he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Hosea i, 8. Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conconceived, and bare a 'son.

JUVENILE THOUGHTS AND PASTIMES.

Zech. viii, 5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Matth. xi, 16, 17. But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

Luke vil, 31, 32. And the Lord liken the men of this generation? said, Whereunto then shall I and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

1 Cor. xiii, 11. And when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

CHARACTERS OF CHILDREN

EARLY DEVELOPED. Gen. xxi, 9, 20. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. And God was with the lad; and he grew, and

Judges xiii, 24, 25. And the woman bare a son, and called his and the LORD blessed him. And name Samson: and the child grew, the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshitaol.

1 Sam. il, 11, 26. And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house: and the child did minister unto the LORD before Ell the priest. And the child Samuel grew on, and

was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.

2 Kings ii, 23, 24. And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Job xix, 18. Yea, young children despised me: I arose, and they spake against me.

Ps. cxliv, 12. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.

Prov. xx, 11. Even a child 18

known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Eccles. xi, 10. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

1 Peter i, 14. As obedient chilaccording to the former lusts in dren, not fashioning yourselves your ignorance.

CHILDREN TENDERLY CARED FOR, AND OFTEN PROPOSED AS AN EXAMPLE.

Gen. xxi, 17. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Ps. cxlvii, 13. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Matth. xviii, 2-5. And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become