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140 provide himself with that robe of righteousness, in which he "may appear pure and blameless at the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;" he, who thus acts, may very properly regard himself as being superlatively foolish.

What a numerous multitude among our fellow-men show themselves to be deserving of this opprobrious epithet. There is not a city, town, or village, but what is crowded with them. They make up the great mass of mankind. Hence, the world may be compared to a bedlam. The number of our fellow-creatures deserving to bear this epithet being so vast, it will not be a matter of wonder, if a goodly number be found enclosed within these sacred walls. We cannot be fairly charged with a want of charity in thinking, that a little honest and sober reflection on the part of some of our hearers, would constrain them to class themselves with the number. There is such a thing as partial insanity. A