And we are very apt to undervalue our opportunities of doing good to others, and to forget that we can imitate Christ by “going about _doing good_.” The domestic who sets a good example to young children, and by words and acts helps to form their character aright, or who by her labours in the kitchen is contributing to the daily comfort of a household, and aiding the wife and mother to make a happy home to her husband, and to train up her children aright, she surely has a right to feel that she can imitate Christ by “going about doing good.”
Let us then, my friends, set about the duties of the lot our Saviour has appointed us, daily “looking unto him” as our pattern, our guide, and our Lord; daily praying to him for his help and protection, and then when he, who is Master of all the families of earth, shall appear, each of us shall hear his voice saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original.
The following corrections have been made to the original text.
Page 11: soon reached the[original has “t e”] ears
Page 16: on them by the benevolent[original has “enevolent”] king
Page 37: become lazy,[comma missing in original] ignorant[original has “gnorant”] and vicious
Page 62: twelve or fourteen[original has “orf ourteen”] hours of hard labour
Page 63: and it is[original has “it s”] becoming more and more
Page 73: become a neat[original has “eat”], industrious
Page 83: always secured for her[original has “he”] if possible
Page 85: way of raising the respectability[original has “respectablity”] of your employment
Page 85: never will be withheld[original has “witheld”]
Page 93: Eccles. 5:[original has a period] 19
Page 93: and setteth up kings.”[quotation mark missing in original] Dan. 4:[original has a period] 32
Page 134: shoot them and put an[original has “and”] end
Page 138: when this occurs a[original has extraneous comma] warning
Page 175: good plan to have a particular[original has “particalar”] evening
Page 185: you should try not to[original has “to to”] forget next time
Page 185: Always encourage[original has “enconrage”] them to try again
Page 189: would come down the[“the” missing in original] chimney