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� that you love your home [underlined], + your parents, + your brother, + your sisters? + what is infinitely more [underlined] honorable to you,- that you do not forget God, + his Holy Word, nor your daily devotions to him? I shall not show your letter of course; but not because I [underlined] should be unwilling these things should be known. You speak of my having a home as if it were considered exclusiely [underlined] mine, + contrast yourself [underlined] with me, as if you had no home [underlined]. I have no home [underlined] that is not a home [underlined] for all my children. I would not discourage your ambition to obtain a property, + a home, for yourself: it is for this I will bear to have you separated from me. Nevertheless, keep in mind, in any event, prosperous, or adverse, that my home is your [underlined] home, as long as I have any home, + as long as I live. Where I own a spot of ground, there you may tread freely: where I have a roof to shelter my [underlined] head, there you [underlined] may lodge. Your place at table, at my fireside; your right to share in all the comforts of my home [underlined], shall remain as long as that home remains. And so it shall be with all my children. Then don't write, + don't think, that you are, or ever will be, any more estranged from us than if you were now at Boston on a visit. You dwell some on the subject of not having adequate compensation for your labor. I repeat,- give yourself no trouble about it. Tell John Addi-son, you are determined to earn enough to pay your board. It will come out right.