G. But you are able to sing, and you like to sing: what will you do?
J. Sir, if you will let us have that song about the shepherd, we will learn it.
G. Yes, my dears, you shall have it, and here is a little book with a great many pretty hymns or divine songs; but before you begin to learn any, you must ask your parents’ leave.
J. Sir, I am quite sure our mother will like them, for she told us yesterday, that she did not think the songs our cousin was teaching us were pretty ones, and that she would rather we learned to sing psalms.
G. I am glad to hear this, and if you come to my house some day, I shall be well pleased to find that you can sing some of the pretty hymns in that book; and there is a lady at my house who will teach you the tunes if you are at a loss.
W. Thank you, Sir; are all the songs in this book as pretty as that one about the shepherd?
G. Some of them are more serious, my boy; and it is right to learn hymns of various sorts, if they all tell us of the Saviour.
J. Are they all hymns?
G. Yes, my girl, they are all written to praise God; for all things should glorify Him.
W. Sir, we thank you very much indeed, and we will ask leave to come and see you next week, if you will let us, and we shall have learned some of these hymns by that time.