...they are detestable ; but she who sets out with a humble yet firm resolution of " doing her duty in that state of life to " which it shall please God to call her," cannot fail of being respectable, however mean her station, however calamitous her * 5 441 lot...

...or desire other men's goods, but to learn and labour to get their own living, and do their duty in that state of life, to which it shall please God to call them." Can we, I ask, teach them in any better manner than by words like these; founding all their...

...country ? The monks, perhaps, thought it was. We, however, who believe that we ought " to do our duty in that state of life to which it shall please God to call us," think differently: and, however pious and well-disposed the first monks might have been, still...

...them to be faithful tc their employers, and respectful to their saperiors, and " to do their duty in that state « of life to which it shall please God to call them." I say, if fathers and mothers would tlius act th? part of Christian parents, 'twould be a bapjN...

...instilling into them such religious principles as may lead them to do their duty, for conscience sake, in that state of life to which it shall please God to call them." The girls are clothed annually, and the total expence of the school is rather more than £100...

...the communication of true knowledge and right motives, for the faithful discharge of their duty in that state of life to which it shall please God to call them. Whatever that state of life may be, this preparation for it is indispensable ; and ought, therefore,...

...make our poorer brethren " learn and labour truly to get their own living, and to do their duty in that state of life to which it shall please God to call them." Now every child learns this in the Catechism, but of the thousands of children that learn to...

...universal education of our countrymen in every attainment, which may prepare them to do their duty in that state of life, to which it shall please God to call them. Humphrey Chetham, third son of Henry Chetham, of Crumpsal, near Manchester, was baptized at the...

...dealings, keep my hands from picking and stealing, to learn and labour truly to get my own living, and to do my duty in that state of life to which it shall please God to call me." — Lev. xxv. 14. Prov. xxix. 27 ; x. 6, 7 ; xi. 1 ; xvi. 11. Rom. xiii. 7, 8. Col. i. 4 ; iii. 25....

...Church catechism — Mr. Jones (rest his soul, I pray God!) used to tache ye, ' to do your duty in that state of life to which it shall please God to call you ;' there's thruth in that — fine, holy thriith ; and he has called you to a state of dependence,...