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My dear boys, however light some of you may make of robbing an orchard, yet I have often told you there is no such thing as a _little_ sin, if it be wilful or habitual. I wish now to explain to you, also, that there is hardly such a thing as a _single_ solitary sin. You know I teach you not merely to repeat the commandments as an exercise for your memory, but as a rule for your conduct. If you were to come here only to learn to read and spell on a Sunday, I should think that was not employing God's day for God's work; but I teach you to read that you may, by this means, come so to understand the Bible and the Catechism, as to make every text in the one, and every question and answer in the other, to be so fixed in your hearts, that they may bring forth in you the fruits of good living.