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Rh celestial train of meekness, gentleness, brotherly kindness and charity, would reign predominant in every bosom. But alas! how little of this spirit is found among men; how little even among the professed followers of Christ. What a readiness to put the worst construction upon the actions of the brethren. How prevalent is whispering, tale-bearing, and evil-speaking. What a satanic-like pleasure there is taken in circulating the tale of slander to the great injury of our neighbor. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. You are called to the cultivation of an opposite temper, by the most endearing considerations. As children of one family you reverently bow down at the same table, partake of the same bread, drink of the same cup, and profess to be travelling to the same eternal home. In that blissful place, you expect to unite with all the redeemed of the Lord, in the same song:—"Unto him that loved its and