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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: History of Orrin Pierce + +Author: American Sunday-School Union + +Release Date: January 13, 2014 [EBook #44658] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF ORRIN PIERCE *** + + + + +Produced by musicinme57, Demian Katz and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images +courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University +(http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) + + + + + + + + + + HISTORY + OF + ORRIN PIERCE. + + [Illustration] + + WRITTEN FOR THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, AND + REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. + + Philadelphia: + AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, + NO. 146 CHESTNUT STREET. + + +_Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1847, by_ THE +AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, _in the Clerk's Office of the +District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania_. + + + + +ORRIN PIERCE. + + + + +[Illustration] + +The cottage where Orrin Pierce was born stood by the side of a clear +bright stream not far from the sea-shore. This cottage had a thatched +roof, and was surrounded by a plain fence. + +Orrin's mother was very fond of flowers, and the little yard in front +of the cottage was filled with many beautiful plants and shrubs; some +of them were trained up about the upper window and around the door. A +marten's house stood on a post one side of the cottage, where three +twittering birds built their nests in safety. + +Everybody that passed Mrs. Pierce's house, looked at it with pleasure, +and some even stopped to admire its neatness and comfortable appearance. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: Noah.] + +Mrs. Pierce was an excellent woman; she feared God and instructed her +little son out of the Scriptures. Before he was old enough to read, +she used to read to him about the creation of the world; and before he +was four years old, he could tell a great deal of Scripture history. +He knew about the temptation and fall of man; the story of Noah; the +deluge; the history of Joseph; the account of the Israelites in Egypt; +the plagues sent upon Pharaoh; the departure of the children of Israel +out of Egypt; their journey through the wilderness, and their entrance +into the promised land. He also could relate the story of Daniel; of +Israel, and many other accounts from the Bible. + +Those who do not read the Bible are ignorant of some of the most +interesting and important parts of the world's history. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Sometimes Mrs. Pierce would walk out with little Orrin, and she always +used to talk with him, so as to improve his mind. She would make him +observe the works of God, and tell him of the wonders of Creation. +Orrin was very fond of going to the sea-shore, and when he had been +a good boy his mother would go there with him. He always took with +him a basket to put his shells in, for there were many shells on the +beach. His little dog, Dash, always went with him, and when Orrin threw +a stick into the water, Dash would plunge in, and swim after it, and +bring it to his little master. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Often during the summer, when the evenings were mild and pleasant, she +would walk in the fields with Orrin, and they would sit down to enjoy +the beauty of the scene. The calm, full moon, shining above them, shed +a soft light on all around. Sometimes a cloud would pass over it and +hide for a moment its brightness, and they would watch for it as the +cloud moved on, and it would suddenly burst upon their sight; on such +occasions, Orrin used to repeat some passages of Scripture to his +mother, giving thanks to God, who made the moon and stars to shine by +night. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Orrin loved very much to see the different animals, that are for the +use of man. He liked horses and cows and dogs very much, but best of +all he liked the sheep and lambs. There was a field not far from his +mother's cottage where a flock of sheep were often kept. He used to +watch the shepherd taking care of the sheep, and when he noticed how +readily they followed him, he thought of the words of Christ, "My sheep +hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." He also remembered +that this harmless animal was employed as a type of Christ, who is +called "the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mrs. Pierce gave her little son a place for a garden, which the +gardener used to dig up for him. She gave him different seeds of plants +and flowers. She bought him a shovel, a rake and a hoe, of a suitable +size for a little boy. Here he used to amuse himself for hours. He had +one tree in his garden which would not thrive, though he had bestowed +much labour upon it, but finally he determined to remove it. Indeed the +branches were many of them dead. He told his mother he was reminded of +the passage in Luke xiii. 6, 9, for he had waited long for fruit, but +found none, and he was going to remove the worthless tree. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +On a pleasant afternoon, it was very delightful to walk in Mrs. +Pierce's garden. Orrin's garden spot was as neat and in quite as good +order as his mother's. The roses were so fragrant, and the various +colours of the numerous flowers so pleasing to the eye, that all +admired who beheld them. The butterflies roamed from flower to flower +undisturbed: the humming-birds and bees took their portion of the +sweets, and pretty singing birds fluttered among the branches. Mrs. +Pierce used often to point to the beautiful lilies, and say to Orrin, +"Consider the lilies, how they grow, and remember the instruction they +give." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +You may be sure Orrin was early taught to pray; and that he was careful +never to forget or neglect this duty. He did not wait till after he +was in bed, either, but kneeled down before he became sleepy, so that +he might pray with the understanding. He used to pray for a new heart, +so that he might love holiness and hate sin. He also prayed for the +forgiveness of his sins. Sometimes he prayed when he was in the field +or on his way to school, when he thought he should not be observed. +He thanked God for all his mercies, but more than all for the gift of +the Saviour; and when quite young, he could repeat many very pleasing +verses about the love of Christ for this sinful world. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +One day when Orrin was on his way to the Sabbath-school, he met a boy +going across a field with a kite in his hand. He did not know the boy, +but he knew he was about to commit sin, so he asked him if he would +not leave his kite and go to the Sabbath-school. He opened his book +and showed him where the lesson was, and told him that he would be +much happier in learning to keep God's commandments, than all his +kite-flying could make him. The boy thought so too, and was willing to +take advice, so he hid his kite behind the fence, and went with Orrin. +We should try to do good to all as we have opportunity. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The next day he met the same boy flying his kite. He stopped as Orrin +approached him, and said, "I thought yesterday when you asked me to go +to the Sabbath-school that it was a pity to give up flying my kite, +because there was such a good wind, but to-day the wind is just as +good, and I have had a fine time with my kite." So he lost no pleasure, +but gained much good. Orrin stayed a while and played with this boy, +and told him he hoped to see him again at Sunday-school; and so he did, +for he continued to attend regularly from that time. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Orrin's mother was almost sorry when he was too old to be kept at +home under her instruction. She felt afraid that when he began to +be more from her watchful care he might become more like those boys +whose company she had always directed him to avoid. He was very fond +of study; and his teacher soon noticed him as a boy who would be an +example to the school. He was always in his place when the bell rang +for nine o'clock, and his lessons were well learned. His mother was +much pleased with the accounts she received from his teacher, of his +good conduct. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +When Orrin was about fourteen years old, he met with the greatest +affliction that could have been sent upon him. This was the death of +his excellent mother. She was sick for a long time, and had a very good +physician, but God did not see fit to restore her to health, and she +was quite ready to submit to His will. Her only anxiety was for her +son, and even this care she was able to commit to the Lord, who has +promised to be a father to the fatherless. She talked much to Orrin, +and told him that she had trained him up thus far, in the way he should +go, and charged him not to depart from it. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +A great number of friends and neighbours followed Mrs. Pierce to the +grave. She was greatly beloved by all who knew her, but none could +mourn for her as her poor afflicted boy did. When he saw his mother +laid in the grave, he felt as if he had not a friend on the earth. +True, he had neither sister nor brother. His father died when he was +an infant, and now his precious mother was taken away. But God could +supply to him all that he had lost, and be to him more than all earthly +friends, even one who would never leave him nor forsake him. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Day after day, Orrin went to the graveyard, to visit the tomb of his +beloved parent. He used to take with him the Bible, which they had so +often read together, and read those passages which she delighted in. +He was much comforted by these words of the Lord Jesus Christ, "I am +the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were +dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall +never die. The hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves +shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and shall come forth; the +followers of Christ to enter into heaven, and his enemies to be cast +into hell." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +After his mother's death, Orrin went to live with a kind uncle, a +brother of Mrs. Pierce, who lived a great distance off, so that Orrin +went there in a ship. Then God raised up a friend for this orphan-boy. +His uncle had a little daughter much younger than Orrin, whose name was +Jane. As he never had a sister, it was very pleasant to have such a +little companion as Jane. His aunt was very kind and affectionate to +him, but no one was like his mother. Though he was very sad for a long +time, he tried to overcome such feelings, and, by dutiful conduct, to +show his kind uncle and aunt that he was grateful to them. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Jane had not received as much instruction as Orrin had, and he was very +happy to tell her some of the things he had heard from his mother. One +day, he and Jane were walking in the garden, and they stopped by the +bee-hives to watch the bees go out to gather their stores, and return +laden with sweets. + +Orrin told Jane many curious facts about bees, which instructed her +very much. He told her that they were always busy, and would not +allow an idler to live in the hive. Orrin and Jane also attended +Sunday-school together. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Jane used to walk and play in her father's garden, but she did not +have one of her own. Her father used to tell her she might look at the +flowers, but that she must not pick them, as she would injure them. But +when Orrin came he gave Jane a garden by herself in which her cousin +worked, and they both kept it in order, and it was a great pleasure +to her to pick flowers whenever she liked. She used often to gather a +pretty nosegay for her mother. Orrin used to say when he looked at her +flowers, why even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of +these. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Many boys who have been taught by pious mothers to pray to God in +childhood, when they become older forsake the law of their mother. They +begin to think it is well enough for children, but not needful for men; +but this was not the case with Orrin. He remembered what Solomon says +of a mother's counsel: "When thou goest it shall lead thee; when thou +sleepest it shall keep thee; and when thou wakest it shall talk to +thee." Orrin read his Bible daily, and continued to pray to the God of +his mother, and he kept in mind her instructions and always tried to +act as he supposed his mother would wish. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +From the time he was old enough to behave properly, Orrin went to +Sunday-school. He was in a room where only the little scholars +attended, and they were taught by a very kind lady. She taught them +from Scripture-cards, and they could say and sing many beautiful little +hymns. He could also answer all the questions in a simple catechism. +When he could read well, he went into the larger school, and was put +into a class with some boys larger than himself. Some of them did not +behave as well as Orrin did. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Orrin's mother loved to see her little boy play at proper times. She +did not always require him to be studying, or reading books. When he +went to play she was careful that his mates should be good boys who did +not take the name of God in vain, or use coarse and vulgar language, +or quarrel and fight. She told him always to treat his mates kindly, +to be just and fair in his sports, and at all times to "do unto others +as he would wish others to do unto him." She reminded him that "even a +child is known by his ways," and that "cheating play never prospers." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Wherever there is a library of useful books, a young person can gain +a store of knowledge. Orrin was very fond of reading, and his uncle +gave him the liberty of reading in his study, whenever he wished to do +so. There Orrin spent many hours, gaining useful knowledge; and as he +had a very good memory, he found, many years after, much use for the +instruction he received in this way. Solomon says, "Get wisdom, get +understanding, take fast hold of instruction, let her not go, keep her, +for she is thy life." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Those who have read the history of this good boy, will like to hear +something of him as a man. He became not only a respectable, but a +useful and pious man. He was a kind friend; he warned and reproved +those he found doing wrong. When a man, he was as fearless in +reproving sin as he was when a boy. If he saw a young man profaning the +Sabbath day, he kindly warned him of his evil way and would invite him +to go with him to the house of God. His example was, also, a silent +teacher of all. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +You will not be surprised to hear that Orrin became a Sunday-school +teacher, nor that he knew how to teach in a way to profit his scholars. +They all loved him very much, and never were absent from school unless +they were sick. Here he is, just returning from Sunday-school. Two of +his scholars are with him; they have their library-books in their +hands. How orderly they walk by his side, talking with him about the +lesson. It is a great blessing to have such a teacher. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +This picture may remind us of Orrin, for we may think of him as +walking by the water-side with a friend. Perhaps he is speaking of the +occupation of Christ's disciples, when he called them to preach the +gospel. They left their ships and followed him. He is pointing to +the church amid the trees, and says "I too would preach the gospel." +No doubt he would make a useful minister of the gospel, for from his +youth he has known the Scriptures, which are able to make him wise unto +salvation. He may be thinking of Christ's words, Go ye unto all the +world, and preach the gospel to every creature. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +After much thought upon the subject, and having taken the advice of +friends, Orrin determined to be a missionary. He went to bid farewell +to the scenes of his childhood. He visited the cottage where he was +born. He stood by the sea-side, where he had gathered shells, and +listened to his mother's instructions; he walked in the fields where +he had seen the lambs. And as he stood thinking over his days of +childhood tears fell from his eyes, but they were tears of gratitude to +God, for having given him a mother who taught him to love the service +of God. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +He at length goes to make known the way of salvation to those who +never heard of a Saviour; to poor ignorant pagans, who worship idols, +the work of their own hands. Many, like him, have gone to tell the +perishing heathen of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. +May all such reap a rich reward, and turn many to righteousness. May +God incline the heathen to cast away their senseless idols, which have +eyes that see not, and ears that hear not, and enter upon the service +of Him who is worthy of all their love. + +[Illustration] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Orrin Pierce, by +American Sunday-School Union + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF ORRIN PIERCE *** + +***** This file should be named 44658.txt or 44658.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/6/5/44658/ + +Produced by musicinme57, Demian Katz and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images +courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University +(http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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