This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...and try to do her good, it may not be a long time before you will find that she is also trying to do you good; and thus each of you will be acting charitably toward the other, and loving your neighbor as yourself." 9. " I do not half like to think of Abby Tracy's doing me any good, mother, although I am willing to do ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...and try to do her good, it may not be a long time before you will find that she is also trying to do you good; and thus each of you will be acting charitably toward the other, and loving your neighbor as yourself." 9. " I do not half like to think of Abby Tracy's doing me any good, mother, although I am willing to do her good." 10. " If you do good to her, Lucy, you will soon love to have her do good to yourself, and to every other person. If you really love another, you love to have him good, and love that he should do good to you and others, and love to do good to him, and to have every one do good to him." 11. " But, mother, need I wish to have every one do me good? Is it not enough for me to do all the good I can to others, and not care at all what others do to me?" 12. "It is not enough, my child. If we do not love to have others do good to us and to all other persons, we do not truly love them; for it is doing good that makes each person good and happy. 13. " Consider how dependent you are upon others. There are very few things which you use for food or clothing, which are not produced by others." 14. " We pay for all these things, mother--you and father pay for them, I mean; and you need not feel obliged to any one." 15. " But who made the money that we use in paying for them, Lucy? Think of this again. Who produced or made the things which clothe and feed you? 16. "It will do any person a great deal of good, to think ten minutes in a day, for a year or two, concerning his dependence upon others. He will learn that the Lord feeds him, clothes him, and bestows on him many other blessings, by means of his neighbors.' QUESTIONS. 3. What is said to be charitable? 7. What feelings does ...
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