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sweet hymns together, he could not join with them, for there was a lump in his throat, which felt as if the cent itself was sticking there. In the evening, their mother began question them and talk to them as usual; she made this remark, "that a single sin would call down the anger of God upon us, and if not repented of, would send us to everlasting punish- ment." Harry left his seat, and came round and stood by his mother, and laid his hand on her shoulder, as she went on talking. She heard a sob, and looking round she saw that Harry was crying as if his little