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YOUNG TRADESMAN.

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"NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS; FERVENT IN SPIRIT; SERVING THE LORD."-ROM. xii. 11.

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LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY;

Instituted 1799.

DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 65, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCHYARD; AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

THE YOUNG TRADESMAN.

LETTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

DEAR CHARLES,-Your late visit to your old home has been productive of pleasure to many besides yourself. Your mother is satisfied on the score of your health; your sister is pleased that you are grown so much more of a man since she saw you last; your father is convinced, from the new arrangements you have made with your late master, that your progress in business has been satisfactory, and that you have succeeded in gaining his confidence. As to my own peculiar source of gratification, it arises from the proofs you have given that affection has not been weakened by long absence and new friends. There is yet another pleasure in which we have all had a full share, and which, I trust, will never glow less warmly than it did, when you made the declaration that you had not forgotten the God of your fathers; that you esteemed him the guide of your youth; and that your determination was fixed that, let others do as they might,

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you would serve the Lord." May the Holy Spirit sanctify and bless the resolve; and may

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