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148 when children are disposed to exert every kind office to raise & comfort their parents, when by providence of God they are overwhelmed with poverty & affliction.

 How amiable did this virtue appear in pious Joseph in Egypt, towards his venerable parent Jacob. while the son was exalted to all earthly greatness next to the kind, his aged father was suffering the honors of famine in a distand land; with what child like love, care & tenderness did the illustrious youth treat his aged father, when he brought him down to Egypt, fed him with the bread & comforted his declining years.
 Worldly honors & wealth did not lessen his sense of obligation & duty to his parent, & it was no doubt the happyest circumstance of his life, that God gave him opportunity to support & comfort his parent in old age & support his tottering steps down the hill of Life.
  The pious, generous soul is not ashamed of the low condition of his parent in the World. He endeavours by every kind means to better his condition. His respect