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It would be pleasant to me to have taught my little sisters to read; I thought it was my duty, for David has said, _Come ye children, hearken unto me, and I will teach you the fear of the Lord_. It would have been still more pleasant to have passed the evening at school, because I am still ignorant, and fitter to learn than to teach; but I can not do either without flying in the face of my mother; God sees fit to-night to change my pleasant duties into a painful trial. I give up my will, and I submit to the will of my father; but when he orders me to commit a known sin, then I dare not do it, because, in so doing, I must disobey my Father which is in heaven.