Third reader. 73 “How stupid it is in you to stand there all the while like a stock! 2.  “You never tell the hour till a bright sun looks forth from the sky, and gives you leave.  I go merrily round, day and night, in summer and winter the same, without asking his leave. 3.  “I tell the people the time to rise, to go to dinner, and to come to church.

74 Eclectic series. 4.  “Hark!  I am going to strike now; one, two, three, four.  There it is for you.  How silly you look!  You can say nothing.” 5.  The sun, at that moment, broke forth from behind a cloud, and showed, by the sundial, that the clock was half an hour behind the right time. 6.  The boasting clock now held his tongue, and the dial only smiled at his folly. 7.  Moral.—­Humble modesty is more often right than a proud and boasting spirit.

Lesson XXIX.

Remember.
1.  Remember, child, remember,
That God is in the sky;
That He looks down on all we do,
With an ever-wakeful eye.

2.  Remember, oh remember,
That, all the day and night,
He sees our thoughts and actions
With an ever-watchful sight.

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3.  Remember, child, remember,
That God is good and true;
That He wishes us to always be
Like Him in all we do.

4.  Remember that He ever hates
A falsehood or a lie;
Remember He will punish, too,
The wicked, by and by.

5.  Remember, oh remember,
That He is like a friend,
And wishes us to holy be,
And happy, in the end.

6.  Remember, child, remember,
To pray to Him in heaven;
And if you have been doing wrong,
Oh, ask to be forgiven.

7.  Be sorry, in your little prayer,
And whisper in his ear;
Ask his forgiveness and his love. 
And He will surely hear.

8.  Remember, child, remember, That you love, with all your might,

        76 Eclectic series.

The God who watches o’er us,
And gives us each delight;
Who guards us ever through the day,
And saves us in the night.

Lesson XXX..

Courage and cowardice. 1.  Robert and Henry were going home from school, when, on turning a corner, Robert cried out, “A fight! let us go and see!”

Eclectic reader. 77 2.  “No,” said Henry; “let us go quietly home and not meddle with this quarrel.  We have nothing to do with it, and may get into mischief.” 3.  “You are a coward, and afraid to go,” said Robert, and off he ran.  Henry went straight home, and in the afternoon went to school, as usual. 4.  But Robert had told all the boys that Henry was a coward, and they laughed at him a great deal. 5.  Henry had learned, however, that true courage is shown most in bearing reproach when not deserved, and that he ought to be afraid of nothing but doing wrong.