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82 together with perspirable matter, &c. How forcibly then are we reminded, by this circumstance, of a similar faculty possessed by the organ of mental touch, and of the incalculable spiritual benefits which we derive daily from the operation of this faculty! For doth the organ of bodily touch, by its communication with the outward atmosphere, admit the purer and more wholesome elements which are suited to the natural state of the body? There is every reason to believe, that this is the case also with the organ of mental touch, in regard to the inward and spiritual atmosphere with which it is in connection. Doth the organ of bodily touch, again, let out, and disperse into the contiguous atmosphere, collections of effluvia no longer serviceable to the body, together with perspirable matter, &c.? There is again every reason to believe, that the organ of mental touch is in possession of a similar property of secretion, which is salutary to the mind in the same degree that the bodily property of secretion is salutary to the body.—But it will be necessary to explain myself on this very interesting subject.

On this occasion, however, I must beg leave to address you, not as a man only, but as a Christian, and as a Christian, too, who has been accustomed to explore, with a microscopic eye of piety, the interior and deep mysteries contained in the sacred pages of the