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23 e feelings of mankind. You have changed our hodays; you have an undoubted right, as our civil governors, so to do; it is very immaterial whether they are kept once in seven days or once in ten; ne, however, you will leave us; and when they occur, I shall tell those who choose to hear me, of beauty and utility of virtue, of the dignity of ht conduct. We shall talk of good men who have lived in the world, and of the doctrines they ght; and if any of them have been persecuted I put to death for their virtue, we shall reverence memories the more. I hope in all this there no harm.

There is a book, out of which I have sometimes taught my people; it says we are to love those who do us hurt, and to pour oil and wine in the wounds of the stranger. It has enabled children to bear patiently the spoiling of their ds, and to give up their own interest for the general welfare. I think it cannot be a very bad k. I wish more of it had been read in your in: perhaps you would not have had quite so many assassinations and massacres. In this book hear of a person called Jesus; some worship him as a God; others, as I am told, say it is wrong to do so ; some teach that he existed before the beginning of ages; others, that he was born to Joseph and Mary. I cannot tell whether these controversies will ever be decided; but, in the mean time, I think we cannot do otherwise than in imitating him; for I learn that he loved the poor, and went about doing good."

Fellow-citizens, as I travelled hither from my village, I saw peasants sitting among the sinking ruins of their cottages; rich men and