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2. As God one, so also the entire race of man, whatever their habits, customs, character, or color, are one. This is a wonderful thing. Some people do not believe it, and many more act as if they did not; but it must be true, for God has told us so.

3. The Bible says, "God, who made the world and all things therein, hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." We are all created by God, and of one blood; therefore we are brethren.

4. Our first duty, then, towards every human being, is to love them. No one, however far away from us, however different in customs or features, though poorer, or more unfortunate, or more sinful, than we are, must be denied our kind regard, as bound to us by this tie of universal brotherhood.

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What gifts do all the human family hold? Repeat the Bible proof that we are all of one blood. What relation does this make between all men? What is our first duty towards all mankind?

LESSON XXIII.

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PENN'S TREATY WITH THE INDIANS.

WILL ILLIAM PENN was the only son of an English admiral. In his youth he became a Friend, or Quaker; and, finding no toleration for his senti

ments in England, he resolved to establish a settlement for those of his belief in America, which was then called the New World.

2. Accordingly, in 1681, he bought of the British king a tract of land on the western bank of the Delaware River, which he named Pennsylvania, or the woods of Penn, in honor of his father, the admiral. He was soon the owner and governor of a large colony, and determined not to abuse his power, but to help his people, by the grace of God, to govern themselves.

3. Laté in the autumn of 1682, on the spot, it is said, where Philadelphia now stands, William Penn made his famous treaty with the Indians. Beneath a large elm-tree they met; and their first covenant, so simple in words, was stronger in deed and in truth than many confirmed by the most solemn oaths.

4. "We meet," said William Penn, "on the broad pathway of good faith and good will. I will not call you my children, for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, for brothers sometimes differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. But we are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood."

5. The Indians replied, "We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon shall endure." Such was the treaty of peace between the English Friend and the red man

of the forest; and it is said that not a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian.

Who was William Penn? What State bears his name? When and where did he make a treaty with the Indians? On what "broad pathway" did they meet? What did the Indians say on their part? What is said about the effect of this treaty of peace ?

LESSON XXIV.

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NO SLAVE BENEATH THE FLAG.

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O slave beneath that starry flag,
The emblem of the free!

No fettered hand shall wield the brand
That smites for Liberty!

No tramp of servile armies.

Shall shame Columbia's shore;
For he who fights for Freedom's rights
Is free for evermore!

2. Go tell the ashes of the braves
Who at Port Hudson fell;'
Go tell the dust whose holy trust

Stern Wagner guards so well:
Go breathe it softly — slowly -
Where'er the patriot slave
For right has bled, and tell the dead
He fills a freeman's grave!

3. Go tell Kentucky's bondmen true,
That he who fights is free!
And let the tale fill every gale

That floats o'er Tennessee;
Let all our mighty rivers

The story southward pour,
And every wave tell every slave
To be a slave no more.

4. No slave beneath that grand old flag!
For ever let it fly,

With lightning rolled in every fold,
And flashing victory!

God's blessing breathe around it;

And, when all strife is done,

May Freedom's light, that knows no night,
Make every star a sun!

LESSON XXV.

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LOVE TO ENEMIES.

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HE Word of God not only teaches us to love all our fellow-beings, and try to do by them as we should wish them to do by us, but it also bids us love our enemies.

2. This does not mean that we should approve any

thing which is wrong in their character or conduct towards us or others; but it forbids us to cherish in return wicked and revengeful feelings towards them, and requires us to pity and pray for them, and do them good.

3. Our heavenly Father sets us a blessed example of this. With infinite compassion, he loves and blesses sinners every day. Though he knows and is displeased with their disobedience and wrong-doing, yet he is daily doing them good, and trying by his mercies to lead them to repent and do right.

4. The Bible tells us of a good man whose name was Stephen, who was hated, and stoned to death by means of wicked and false accusers. Did he hate his enemies for this cruel deed? Oh, no! he prayed for them while they were killing him. His last words were, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge!"

LESSON XXVI.

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LIFE OF PAUL CUFFE.

PART FIRST.

PAUL

was the son of John Cuffe, a negro who was dragged from his home in Africa, brought to this country, and sold into slavery about 1750.

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