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169 instruction implanted in their tender minds will be watered with the influences of grace and bring forth fruit unto eternal life. If you have any sincere love for their souls and wish them to be happy in this world and thus all the periods of their immortal life let me earnestly exhort you to lead them in the paths of virtue and religion. Follow your instructions until you see the good fruits of them in their virtuous lives. Solemn and awful will be the account which parents who have neglected the souls of their children, must give to God in that eternal World to which parents and children must speedily go.

 If they perish thro' your neglect, it will appear that  tho they were capable of being taught their duty and obligations to God, you suffered them to grow up in ignorance of him. Tho they had precious and immortal souls to be saved you suffered to be lost. 
 What mutual, dreadful accusations will irreligious parents and children retort upon one another in the World of despair and wo, that is prepared for the ungodly. How awful the employment thus to spend the days of a miserable existance, thro' ages of hopeless end. 
 But on the other hand, how peaceful is the exit of the pious parent who has labor'd to promote the highest interests & salvation of his children. His labor is with the Lord and his reward in heaven. Whether the children are saved or lost, he has labor'd to do his duty towards them as a faithful and pious parent and how must his happyness increase in heaven to find that his labors have not been in vain when he shall there find his children, of whose salvation