"May the Holy Spirit engrave it on your heart, for it will occasionallyremind you of the thankful contwelvetedness with which you ought to waiton the Lord."

"Yes, mamma," William exclaimed, "but there is no harm, you know, inopening the mouth _wide_."

"No, William, certainly no _harm_, for it is a _duty_.'0pen thy mouth wide,' is an injunction of God, but it is immediatelysubjoined and strictly said, 'and I will fill it.' Therefore bear inmind the double instruction. Neither take the filling on yourself,nor be ready to swallow every crude and unwholesome morsel which theignorant or the wicked would present to you. Do you remember acertain day last week when something happened?"