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TEMPTATION.

Why, he should have driven it right out again, and determined that he would not wish for the cent; and he should have asked God to help him to do what was right. The devil was tempting Harry then, by putting wicked thoughts into his heart, just as he did to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. And when Harry, instead of saying, as our blessed Saviour did, get thee behind me, Satan, listened to him and began to wish over and over again to keep the cent; then he entered into temptation.

As Harry ran on to Sunday-school, he kept taking the bright cent out of his