The Bible, farther, is to be read _daily_, and with _diligence_, as containing that daily food from which you are to derive spiritual aliment, and strength continually. It is to be read with fixed _attention_, seriously directing your mind to its rich and important meaning; with _humility_, feeling your need of the instruction and grace which it contains; with _prayer_, imploring the guidance of the Holy Spirit, that he may open your hearts to receive the engrafted word which is able to save your souls; with _application_--asking continually--"How does this concern _me_? Does it describe _my case_? Does it not contain a lesson which demands _my_ special regard? Do _I_ know any thing in my own experience of what is here taught?" In this precious Book you will find every thing adapted to enlarge the mind, to gratify the taste, to elevate the affections, and to purify the heart. If you only sought the richest _entertainment_, you could not open a book more fitted to gratify you. It is an inexhaustible mine of instruction as well as of beauty--the deeper you dig, the richer will you find its treasures. Its exquisite simplicity, its pathos, its sublimity, its heavenly wisdom, its purity, are all adapted to turn us away from the vanities of the world; to enlarge our views beyond these regions of disorder and darkness; to strengthen every high and holy motive; and to lead us upward to Him who is the source and the sum of all good. Happy, thrice happy will those children and young people be, who early learn to go to the BIBLE for all their sentiments, principles, and rules of action; who learn daily to go to that precious Book to direct them in their pursuits, to comfort them in their sorrows, to guide them in their perplexities, and to animate them in their labours whatever they may be! Such have the best pledge of temporal enjoyment, and of eternal blessedness. When, therefore, those who love you, and would in some measure take the place of your dear departed Mother, daily put this precious Book of God into your hands, and urge you to read and commit to memory a portion of its contents, do not allow yourselves to regard it as a task or a burden. Think from whom it comes--from the God who made you. Think of the great purpose for which it was given--to make you wise and eternally happy. Think of the only means of making it truly profitable to you--studying it with devout attention, laying it up in your hearts, and practising it in your lives. Think of the solemn responsibility which the possession of this Book lays upon you--for to whomsoever much is given, of them shall much be required. And may the great Author of this Book give you grace to "seek for the heavenly wisdom which it contains as silver, and search for it as for hid treasures!" LETTER V. PRAYER.