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MEMOIR.

CHAPTER I.

HIS

PARENTAGE-EARLY

INSTRUCTION-FILIAL OBEDI

ENCE-DEDICATION TO GOD-RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONTHE DOMESTIC SABBATH SCHOOL-THE COMMON SCHOOL -APPRENTICESHIP-DESIRES FOR A PUBLIC EDUCATION.

THE REV. SAMUEL GREEN was the fourth son of Thomas and Anna Green, and was born at Stoneham, a small town nine or ten miles north of Boston, Mass., on the third of March, 1792. His father was a farmer and mechanic, possessed of small property, but much respected for his industry and integrity, and for being the uniform and decided supporter of good institutions and good order; and though not a professor of religion, he has ever been a punctual attendant on public worship, and highly exemplary in all the ordinary moral duties. He ever manifested a deep interest in the education and future welfare of his children, and was solicitous to guard them against irreligious influences-a point too little considered by most parents when apprenticing their children, or otherwise making arrangements for their future settlement in life.

Though a matter of surprise, it is yet a melancholy fact, that children are often thrown by parental thoughtlessness or indifference into families where a miracle alone can preserve them from forming pernicious habits, and imbibing a spirit of hostility to religion. When a master is to be found for the instruction of a child in some mechanic art, the common questions are-what is his skill-what is his reputation-is he a thorough workman -and, are his terms reasonable? Important as such questions doubtless are, certainly there are others of paramount importance; for the complexion that shall be given to the social, moral, intellectual, and religious character of the youth, will infallibly be formed by the familiar associations of those years which are spent in laying the foundations of future acquisition and enjoyment. Many a youth, after leaving the paternal roof, well instructed and favorably impressed on moral and religious subjects, has been poisoned by the infidelity of his master, or corrupted by the vain conversation of his master's family, or seduced from the paths of virtue by the solicitations of wayward youth whose society he could not shun, or, led to the verge of ruin by the unscriptural speculations of the preacher, on whose ministrations circumstances compelled him to attend. parents often been blighted by their own presumption. Happy the parent who looks well to the influences that shall surround his son in the progress of his education, whether for public or private life, and resolves at all hazards to guard his moral habits and religious principles against the temptations arising from companionship with the ungodly and profane.

Thus have the hopes of godly

The mother of Samuel, though a plain woman, with no more education than usually fell to the lot of a common farmer's daughter, sixty or seventy years ago, yet possessed excellent judgment, and rather uncommon en

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