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 It is for the human race to rejoice in this day-dawn of mercy; it will open to all our souls, as the day advances, still purer joys and increasing pleasures; it will still the storm and the tempest of life, and finally introduce us into the paradise of God, where life, and peace, and every blessing shall be our own.

HO can doubt but that a life of holiness will end in peace; and who doubts but that a life of wickedness and crime must end in shame and sorrow? "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way;" but who directs the steps of the evil man? they are ordered by himself. Evil in the will is suffered to rule, and to breed errors in the understanding; and thus by evil, the feet are guided into the paths of folly and wickedness. It is in this way that the wicked suffer themselves to be led captive by the devil at his will, and thus, at the cursed shrine of sinful pleasures "peace bleeds, and hope expires."

A holy life is important, because it is the bliss and the heaven of the soul. Indeed, in vain do we have the doctrines of Christ upon our lips, if the life be a stranger to holiness, "If ye love me," saith the Lord, "keep my commandments." The importance of a holy life is apparent from all Scripture, as well as from the universal testimony of reason and truth. We