The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . im. Ought you not to be very thankful to him for hiskindness, and to love him for it and for all his good-ness to you ? Ought you not to feel that, while allthe trees and the fruit in the garden belonged to him5he had a right, if he thought best, to forbid you to eatof the fruit of one of the trees ? Ought not Adam and Eve to have felt so towardsGod, their Heavenly Father, who created them, anddid so much to make them good and happy r 11 Yes,1 you say, they certainly ought. Well, take care then that you
The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . im. Ought you not to be very thankful to him for hiskindness, and to love him for it and for all his good-ness to you ? Ought you not to feel that, while allthe trees and the fruit in the garden belonged to him5he had a right, if he thought best, to forbid you to eatof the fruit of one of the trees ? Ought not Adam and Eve to have felt so towardsGod, their Heavenly Father, who created them, anddid so much to make them good and happy r 11 Yes,1 you say, they certainly ought. Well, take care then that you feel so towards yourparents, and towards those who have the care of thankful when you are permitted to have, or todo, any thing which will make you good and not complain when you are forbidden to take, or THE PERMISSION,- 17 to do, any thing. Be contented. Be submissive. Beobedient. If you have not always been so, how muchreason there is that you should be sorry for all yourmisconduct, and that you should pray to God to helpyou to feel right and to do right, in STORY IX. THE PROHIBITION. u The Prohibition you say,— that is a wordwhich I do not understand. But you know very well the tiling which it your father ma«^i^ve told you not to gonear his table and irre,ddie with the books and pa-pers upon it. He gave yo^ »|>o#mission to play in thefurther corner of the room,, .but he prohibited youfrom coming near the table. When he rose from thetable and went out of the room, he told you to re-member his prohibition. A mother told her daughter that she might go andwalk in the garden, and look at the pretty flowers,and gather some of them from all the beds exceptingone, to put together into a beautiful nosegay Thelittle girl was an obedient child, and did not forgetthe prohibition. She did not touch a single flower 22 TUB PROHIBITION, in the bed of tulips, for that was the one from whichher mother had forbidden her taking the flowers. Can
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