This little story should teach us two lessons.
First, if we wish persons to love us, we must be kind and attentive to them.
Secondly, the pathway of life is very slippery, and many of our companions fall into very great sins, and it is our duty, like Rescue, to save them from destruction.
“REMEMBER THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.”
While in the tender years of youth,
In nature’s smiling bloom,
Ere age arrive and trembling wait
Its summons to the tomb,
Remember thy creator, God,