THE following pages, although immediately designed for distribution among the author's pupils, might, it has been thought, be profitable to other young persons, and their publication not unseasonable at a time when, happily, in regard to the education of all classes, rich as well as poor, it is daily more felt, that " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." ΡΗΜΑ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΜΕΝΕΙ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΑΙΩΝΑ. THE STUDY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE RECOMMENDED TO THE YOUNG. MY DEAR YOUng Friends, Of things sweet and bitter there are two kinds in the world: those which, being sweet at first, are bitter in the end; and those which, though at first bitter, afterwards prove sweet. Of the former kind are many of those things which all men most eagerly seek after, following their natural inclinations and desires; of the latter kind are, for the most part, those things which are provided for us by the goodness of Almighty God, who knows best how to "do us good at our latter B |