ON PREJUDICE. BY SAMUEL J. MAY. PRINTED FOR THE American Unitarian Association. BOSTON, GRAY AND BOWEN 141 WASHINGTON STREET. 1830. Price 3 Cents. habits of thinking upon ordinary subjects, so will they become imbued with your christian temper and principles. But, remember, if you walk not worthy of the high vocation wherewith you are called,' your example must be destructive, and you can no longer be objects of affection or respect. Do not force your children to err against nature. No child can love a tyrant, a sensualist, a despiser of religion, or a neglecter of parental duties. Walk in the midst of your families, in the constant exercise of kindness tempered with firmness, of piety without austerity, of holiness adorned by cheerfulness, and you cannot fail, in the virtues and happiness of your children, to reap an abundant harvest of joy and peace. ON PREJUDICE. BY SAMUEL J. MAY. PRINTED FOR THE American Unitarian Association. BOSTON, GRAY AND BOWEN 141 WASHINGTON STREET. 1830. Price 3 Cents. ON PREJUDICE. Can there any thing good come out of Nazareth? THE hasty conclusion, implied in this question of Nathaniel, was suggested by his prejudices; and it proved to be, like most other hasty conclusions, a mistake. The belief that the Messiah would appear, surrounded by all the splendor of a victorious king, was so fixed in the mind of this Jew, that when Philip told him the long-expected one had come in the person of Jesus, the reputed son of Joseph the carpenter, of the despised village of Nazareth, the prejudices of Nathaniel were at once violently shocked. He revolted at a story so new, and, as he hastily thought, so unreasonable and derogatory. The exclamation of astonishment and contempt burst involuntarily from his lips can there any good thing come out of Nazareth ?' But it should ever be remembered, in justice to this Israelite, and as worthy of all praise and imitation, that he did not allow his prejudices to triumph over his love of truth. He had the candor to go to Nazareth, and see for himself the man, who was said to be the Christ. He saw, he conversed with Jesus. His prepossessions |