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them, and ask God’s pardom:for them. If you:
will examine those feelings closely, my dear child,

you will see that. they are like those which, we

learn inthe Bible, belong to,the wicked one—to

Satan. Your cousin has done you no harm, has :
done nothing.;to displease you; yet you are

angry with her, and..though you may. not be»
willing to acknowledge it, you hate her in your

heart. !”? md

‘<J don’t hate her, papa,”’ sobbed. Lucy.

“My child, we hate those to whom we wish evil,’
whose misfortunes would give us pleasure ; now
I fear that in your present temper you would take.
pleasure in your cousin’s mortification. I will
not ask you to answer the question to me, but I
wish you to answer it-to yourself, whether you
would not be glad at anything which would make
her Jess pleasing in my eyes or in those of Mrsi!:
Butler. If this be so, you have the feelings to-
wards her which Cain had towards his brother
Abel; whom he hated because he thought that his»
father Adam, and-even the just and holy God,’
were partial to him, preferring him to hinself’;
and remember, my dear daughter, that: these feel-