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122 who had only gazed at the casket, and not discovered the jewels it contains, he would unfold the inestimable treasures of true wisdom, and exhibit to his astonished mind the "pearls of great price," which had been concealed from his mental sight; then, by apt illustrations and demonstrations the most cogent, he would prove the author Infinite. How clearly would he show the whole is one beautiful, sublime, and connected chain of love and wisdom, which adapts itself to finite comprehension, yet not to be fully fathomed in its depths profound by mortal or angelic skill!

Such was the inestimable Lovesworth,—a faithful disciple, a truly rational and illuminated scribe of the Lord,—one who, like former messengers of their Divine Master, by the world deemed visionary because but little known or understood, was nevertheless warmly received, because rightly appreciated, by the discerning and unprejudiced few.

Framing his views and forming his entire life and conduct by this heavenly and enlightened model, Doctor Lovesworth simplified to the unlettered the purest philosophy, and the most exalted and edifying principles of theology. His parishioners were daily in the habit of resorting to him for instruction,—happy to disseminate truths he had it in his power so ably to expound, and particularly in the