Stop in Time: A word in season, from a faithful friend, on a very serious subject

Stop in Time: A word in season, from a faithful friend, on a very serious subject

When I had put things straight after I got home last night, and could sit down quietly and think over our strange conversation, my heart sank within me. I was so hurried for fear of being late for the coach, while we were talking, and so grieved and surprised by what you told me, that I could not, there and then, go much beyond the sad news itself. Dear heart! what sorrow and shame in a decent family! And so nice a girl too, as your cousin seemed. Her father will scarce ever lift up his head after it, to say nothing of a poor child brought into the world with a stain on its birth, and without a right to a fathers care; both mother and child a reproach to each other. But after all, it is not so much that, as what you said along of it that has gone so sorely against my heart. Why, my dear child, where have you heard such things? Whoever it is that has put them into your head has some bad design upon you, you may be quite sure. If it be a man, be he who he will, he means you harm. Man or woman, they are no decent bodys thoughts, at any rate. Only following nature, indeed! You did not think that was an excuse when the servant girl took your ribbon, for all it was nature p. 4enough in her to like a bit of finery. What! and are we to liken ourselves to the beasts that perish? I dont know whether it is most wicked or most foolish to make a pretence that their ways can ever be a guide to us. It is setting the ass to drive the man, for sure, if we are to learn from them. Has not God made man quite different from the brutes? Has not He made him in His own image, and given him laws to keep, and reason and conscience to guide him in keeping them? The commonest things of every day shew us on what a different footing we reckon ourselves. We do not punish the animal that breaks through our fence and eats our hay-grass, for it has had no laws given to it, and has no knowledge of right or wrong; but we deal very differently with the man who watches his opportunity, and takes the meal out of our bin. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67035
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: Dec 29, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English