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SEAM.
vIII.1
WITH THE
BLESSINGS
OF
IT.
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keep our temper,
and are
composed
amidst
our cares
and labours and
finish
our
designs with
honour.
But,
if
we
suffer
our
work to lie
neglected,
till
the
latter
end
of
the
appointed
time,
we are.
ever
in
a
hurry,
m
,perpetual
confusion,
our temper
is
ruffled with
every
incident
that
.
comes
in,
our
way,
and
gives us
the least hinderance,
and
we
never
perform
with such
accuracy or
such success.
Have
we
not
sometimes
learned
these
inconveniences by
sad
experience, and
shall
we
ever
hé
guilty
of delays
again
!
Or
if
we consider
ourselves
as
christians, have
wenot
found
that
by
needless delays
we
have
lost the season
óf
morning
prayer,
and
could never recover
it
again,
but
have
past
the
morning without
solemn addresses to
the
God
of
our
lives
?
And hath
not
many
a sinner
felt the
dreadful
consequences
of
his
delays
:of repentance,,
when,
day
after
day,
and week after
week, his own
conscience
and the
voice
of God
in
his
word have called upon
him
to
repent
and
return
to
God,
and invited
him
to
accept
of
pardon
and
peace, to receive the grace
of
Christ and
everlasting
life
?
What
terrible
agonies
of
soul,
what
re-
proaches
of
conscience
on a
dying
bed,
what
horror
of
spirit
in
the
review
of
his
cursed delays? And
with
what
tormenting despair
his
soul bath been
hurried
out
of
this
life,
and been plunged
into
an
eternal
state,
without
hope,.
or at least
at
a
terrible uncertainty? Children,
can
you
hear
this,
and not enquire
betimes,
"
what must
I
do
to
be saved
?"
Acts
xvi.
30..
Can
you
hear
this
in
the days
of
youth, and delay any
longer
to
secure your immortal
concerns, and provide
for the
approaching hour
of death
and judgment?
It
is
a dangerous thing
for
children in
their
younger years
to
learn
the
language
of
idleness,
and
to
cry
out
on
every occasion,
`°
It
is
time
enough yet.
".
They
generally grow up
to feel
the
bitter'fruits
of
delay.,
It
is
an
excellent rule
in
the things
of
earth
òr,
of
heaven,.
"
Never
leave
that
to be
done
the
next
hour,; which
niay
properly
be
done
now,
nor dare
to
put off
till
to-
morrow
the
business which you may
-as
Well
begin to -day. Who,
knows
what
a day may bring
forth-?" -J
v.
xxvii.
i.
Hey
that
hath done
his ,work
to
-day
is
secure
of
peace,
but
to-
morrow
may be all
disappointment.
Let
us
Who
pre-
tend
to be
christians, or
to have
a
regard
to
God and
teligion,
let
us
upon the
first
notice of
any
duty, makr