es, after a perfect conformity to the image of the
blessed Savior--whose name is love--and they taught their children by
precept, and by their own lovely examples, to walk in his footsteps, who
said, "Be ye holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy."

What powerful motives then have all parents so to demean themselves
towards each other, and towards their children, as to deserve and to
secure their filial regard! Parents and children, thus influenced, will
forever respond to the following beautiful sentiment:

"Happy the heart where graces reign,
Where love inspires the breast;
Love is the brightest of the train,
And strengthens all the rest."

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Original.

GOD'S BIBLE, A BOOK FOR ALL.

At a meeting of the thirty-sixth anniversary of the American Bible
Society, May 13, 1852, many thoughts were suggested worthy the special
attention of all Christian mothers. A few are here registered, in the
hope that they may continue to call forth the prayers and efforts of all
Christian parents, and lead them to feel that whatever else they neglect
in the daily instructions of their children, they cannot safely overlook
their sacred obligations to see to it that the minds and hearts of their
children be early imbued with a love and reverence for this Book of
books.

As was justly remarked, the Bible is the teacher of true philosophy, in
fact the only fountain of truth, and suggests the best and only plan
adequate to the conversion of the world.

Let the prayers, then, of all Christian mothers be daily concentrated in
asking God's blessing upon this noble institution, keeping in mind the
Savior's last prayer for his beloved disciples, "Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth."

We particularly invite attention to a resolution offered on that
occasion by Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler of Trenton, N.J.:

"_Resolved_, That the adaptedness of the Bible to all conditions of
society, and all grades of intellect, as shown by past history, brings
us evidence of its divine origin, and inspires us with hope of its
future success in enlightening and purifying the world."

Mr. C. remarked--"A wide field swells out before me in this resolution,
for it is nothing less than the universality of God's Word in its
complete adaptedness to the possible conditions of humanity. The truth
which I hold up for you all to gaze upon is, that 'God's Bible is the
book for all.' Like the air whic