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  5. It is the duty of children to provide for their parents. A principle of gratitude binds them to endeavors to make some returns for all the parents love, kindness care & watchfulness. Whenever their circumstances call for it they are to administer to their wants.  The obligations of children both to their father & mother are equally bind.g & promisenously? to be paid to both. Children can never requite? them for their kindness, either of the father for providing for them when young, weak, dependent; or their mother for all her pains & favours on their account; the sleepless hours & watch.g & the homely offices done for them in their helpless infancy, as well as their care, anxiety & labor for them, thro' periods of childhood & youth.  To them, under God, they owe their being, their health, preservation, food, raiment & education; and nature teaches that when the parents, who have been such benefactors to children, & to whom they owe their all, need their asistance comfort & support, either by the accidents of providence in their outward circumstances, when reduced to poverty & dependence, or when disabled by the infirmities of age, that support & comfort should be cheerfully & liberally afforded them.
  Thus Joseph nourished his aged father in Egypt, in the time of famine.
  The ancient Jews had a say.g that children ought to work with their hands to provide for their parents & to beg for them, when they