Elsie's children by Martha Finley
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"No, dear; but perhaps you can consult me without that; and do not forget
that you can always lift up your heart to God for help to know and do the right." "Yes, mamma," returned the little girl thoughtfully, "and I do believe Elsie will 'most always be there and know what's right." "I'm not sure," said her sister, with a grave shake of the head, "I wish we could always have mamma by to tell us." "But mamma cannot be with you always, darlings," Elsie said, regarding them with yearning tenderness, "and so, as your papa and I have often told you, you must learn to think and decide for yourselves; about some things now, and about others as you grow older and wiser. Some things the Bible tells us plainly, and in regard to those we have nothing to do but obey." CHAPTER FOURTH. "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." --PROVERBS xxix. 15. Lucy, too, had a talk with her children, in which she begged them quite pathetically, not to disgrace her before the expected guests, Mr. Dinsmore especially, who was so very strict in his ideas of how children ought to be brought up, and how they should behave. |
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