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"Hold the little hands in prayer, teach the weak knees their kneeling; Let him see thee speaking to thy God; he will not forget it afterwards: When old and grey will he feelingly remember a mother's tender piety, And the touching recollection of HER PRAYER3 shall arrest the strong man in his sin." Martin F. Tupper.

Bere a Little and Chere a Little;"

OR

DAILY MANNA FOR THE LAMBS
OF CHRIST'S FOLD;

CONSISTING OF

DAILY TEXTS FOR A YEAR,

WITH A COLLECTION OF

PRAYERS AND HYMNS,

SUITED ΤΟ YOUNG CHILDREN.

BY A MOTHER.

"THOSE THAT SEEK ME EARLY SHALL FIND ME."

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

JARROLD AND SONS, 47, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.

PREFACE.

HAVING experienced great difficulty in providing, at the moment they were required, suitable texts of Scripture to be daily committed to memory by my children—such, that is, as would admit of easy explanation and could be thoroughly understood by them; and having also found it inconvenient to be obliged to have recourse to several different books for simple Prayers and proper Hymns, I determined to make some collection for the use of my own family, which would at once supply me with a ready source of Texts, Prayers, and Hymns, as an aid in their daily religious instruction. Having found this collection very useful for the purpose intended, I have been induced to think that it might be acceptable to others, to whom the early training. of children is committed; particularly to those

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