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The performance of family worship, Philetus, may be attended with the happiest effects: your example will speak loudly to all und you, and recommend the religion you befels to follow and esteem. If, in the verse of divine Providence, you should be blessed with children, it is likely they may benefited as well by this as any other act your exemplary piety. Your servants also who will not be forgotten in your petitions, by be gainers by such a conduct. Every exhortation intended to promote either their present or their future welfare, may be given with peculiar propriety and advantage in these precious moments of retirement The solemnity of the occasion will add double force to every remark; will most likely engage their intention, and perhaps leave an impression on mind that neither the levity of youth, corruption of human nature, the allurants of the world, nor even time itself, can entirely obliterate. But the master of a family who neglects this important service, can see none of these advantages: nay if he act persistently with his own practice, he cannot even
