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    much greater than those two ; but I don ' t suppose you will find it out . Suppose you saw a tart in a shop window , and were to stretch out your nand , and take it , and eat it , would that be right ? ' A . < No . ' S . < Why ? ' A . ' Because it would not be mine . ' S . ' Now do you know the third reason ? ' A . Because the insects are not ours . ' S . Whose then ? ' A . 3 after a pause , 6 God ' s . * S . ' Yes ; he makes them , he feeds them , and he makes

    them happy : you see them dancing in the sunshine : you hear the birds singing . ' A . ( feelingly )— ' Yes . ' S . 'And , in the Bible , God says that he feeds the young ravens ; and that when a little sparrow falls to the ground , and dies , he knows it : he watches (

    over everything . ' A . ' And we are his ? ' S . ' Yes . ' A . He makes us V S . Yes . * A , ' And he makes us happy ? ' S . Yes . As soon as A . had sufficient command of his pen , he used to write a journal . At first , of course , it was but a bare record of doings ; soon after came in descriptions and remarks ; and , last of all , feelings . It is a great proof of the goodness of a plan , when you can see that ,, throughout life , it may be carried on with advantage ; and that , in proportion as the being improves , his

    execution of the design will improve . That is the case with all the lessons which we have reported here : there is not one of them that the man will not love better and execute better than the boy . Afterlife will be but a carrying on , not a change , of studies to A . With regard to journals , every one who has kept one for some time , must observe how much his journal improves as his being improves . Two or three of A . ' s journals will exemplify this :

    July . c 1 got up . I bathed . I ran in the passage . I had my breakfast . I did my plant book . I did my journal . I did some counting . I did some reading . I drew . Tea came . A ( I boy came with a tortoise and some white mice . I went to bed . ' August . I got up , bathed , and ran . I had my breakfast . We went out—said that he saw a bull . We went on . At last we got to the pond ; we might not fish , so we came back ; and as we came back we went to T . We went on . We cut some reeds . At last we came home . We had our tea . We went

    to bed . January . 'In the afternoon we went to T . We drew the church . We went through some very beautiful fields . At last we got to church . drew the church . We could see for miles and miles . We saw the sun sink behind hill , When we were going home , both my shoes were lost in the mud ; at last we got them again . We went on . When we got home DO D I had tea . I went to bed and to sleep . ' This journal , though so short , is a groat improvement on the first , which had too much of the word * I' in them , and that * I ' followed simply by a verb . 1 lis journals afterwards became very interesting ; he drew in them , and put down his recollections

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    866 Memoranda of Observations

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 866, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/48/