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BERTHA
AND HER BAPTISM.
By the Author of
AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY;
_or_,
BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED.
BOSTON:
S.K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,
161 WASHINGTON STREET.
1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
S.K. WHIPPLE & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED BY
HOBART & ROBBINS,
New England Type and Stereotype Foundry,
BOSTON.
PREFACE.
This book, and that which is also named in the title-page, were written
at the same time, and as one book; but they were afterward separated, as
more properly constituting two volumes, the part which was the original
of the present volume now being greatly enlarged. Thus the two books
grew in the author's mind together, from one and the same root,--the
death of a little child.
CONTENTS.
Page
CHAPTER I.
PROBABILITIES OF AN ORDINANCE FOR CHILDREN, 9