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At the gravesite of one of their classmates, the Sunday-school teacher tells the class that Sarah Pearce will be with God, for she loved him and honored him.
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Moralizing story, where the narrator, after seeing a "lubberly boy" on stilts, reflects on people that set themselves above others and make spectacles of themselves.
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Martha Scott, who would censure others for breaking the Sabbath,
herself not only breaks the Sabbath but looses her temper - not
realizing the sins she is committing.
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His mother unable to provide for himself and his siblings, six year
old Little Johnny prays on the way to school. On arriving home, he
finds food has been left for the family. Not an angel, but an
earthly agent of God heard his prayer and provided for the family.
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Little Robert would not heed the advice of his Sunday school
teacher and avoid the men at the grocery store who kept trying to
get him to drink rum. By the age of 13, Robert becomes a drunkard.
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Moralizing tale of the youth who starts by missing just a few minutes of Sunday school, slides into sin, skips class, joins a fire company, and
eventually lands in prison in Maryland with a 15 year term for
robbery.
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Moralizing tale of how boys, men, peasants and princes all may climb over obstacles towards a goal, but are worldly goals worth the climb?
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Moralizing tale where Miss Amelia F. Johnson learns that the pretty new bonnet she wants to wear to church is not as important as learning to serve God. The story is followed by the poem "The child's prayer."
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A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and lef…
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Moralizing tale which reflects that how children act is a signal of their future character. Story is followed by "The substance of the Ten
Commandments."
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