elieveth on me hath everlasting life.

W What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

X Examine yourselves.

Y Ye are bought with a price.

Z Zealous of good works.

From an old alphabet belonging to Miss Clara L. Bodman, and
used by her kind permission.

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my father mother dear

My father.

My mother.

My dear father.

My dear mother.

"Honor thy father and thy mother."--_Exodus 20:12_.

"Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well
pleasing unto the Lord."--_Colossians 3:20_.

"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not
the law of thy mother."--_Proverbs 1:8_.

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I brother sister love

I love my father.

I love my mother.

I love my brother.

I love my sister.

"Have love one to another."--_John 13:35_.

"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
--_I John 4:11_.

"Let us love one another: for love is of God."--_I John 4:7_.

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[Illustration]
THE DIVINE MOTHER AND THE CHILD
By Murillo (1618-1682)

Bartolome Esteban Murillo was born at Seville, Spain, January 1, 1618.
Very poor at first, he afterward gained wealth and fame by his
masterly work, which made him an artist of the first rank. "The
peasant-painter of Spain," as he has been called, was a man of deep
religious convictions. "He alone in the seventeenth century kept alive
the pure flame of religious fervor which burned within the devout
Italians of the early school." His Madonnas are all of an especially
sweet and gentle and motherly type.
[End illustration]

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God me is

My father loves me.

My mother loves me.

God loves me.

God is my Father.

God loves me.

I love God.

"God is love."--_I John 4:8_.

"We love him because he first loved us."--_I John 4:19_.

"Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us that we should be called the sons of God."--_I John 3:1_.

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a gives all have home

I have a home.

I have a father.

I have a mother.

God gives me my father.

God gives me my mother.

God gives me my home.

God gives me all I have.

"Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and
cometh down from the Father."--_James 1:17_.

"Give us this day our daily bread."--_Matt. 6:11_.

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[Illustration]
A QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE UPLAND PASTURES

"Go out in the sprin