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ready to seal his testimony with his blood, yielding his spirit to the Lord, makes no other pray r in re r­ ence to those who slew him, than, " Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having so said, he fell asleep." Such was the conduct of the Christians throughout those ages, in which men persisted in the unaccountable perversity of worshipping the idols they had made with their own hands, and killing the just; and such has ever been the conduct of all true Christians; the horrid repose of paganism they never disturbed; no, not even by their groans. What more can be done to preserve peace with men, than to love them, and to die That this doctrine was consistent with itself, and very dear to Christian understand­ ings, we shall be rced to admit, when even chil­ dren und it intelligible; r, ith l to the instruc­ tions of their mothers, they even smiled at their ex­ ecutioners; those who sprung up, imitated those who ll be re them- rst uits of the saints- owers that blossomed beneath the sickle of the reaper.
MANZONI.
LESSON IX.
HYMN OF CHILD AT WAKING.
1. FATHER! be re whose majesty
My own dear ther bends his knee,
,vhose name my mother hears, to bow In lowly reverence her brow.
2. They say yon radiant .orb of light Is but the plaything of thy might;
But as a sparkling lamp to thee Is all his glowing brilliancy.