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 ance of this duty, and neglect to unite and act with those who are endeavouring to behold a church in a larger form, or cease to sympathize with feeble and individual efforts towards this end? The fear that we might infringe the liberty or freedom of one another in this respect, ought surely to be tempered by a conscientious sense of duty, and by the light of truth.

T was no passing remark of the Great Teacher, that on love to God and love to man rested the whole of our duty; for every page of the sacred writings sets forth this important truth. This truth is the basis of usefulness; and usefulness consists, not so much in knowing a great deal and doing nothing, as in knowing little, but doing according to the extent of our knowledge. The man that had five talents and used them so as to make them ten, was no more blessed than the man that had but two talents, and so used them as to make them four; but whatever may be the amount of ability we are endowed with, it must be exercised; the road to heaven, though a strait one, is beset with difficulties, and through those difficulties we must pass, or the portals of heaven can never be reached. It is an Oriental maxim, "To hear is to obey." It can scarcely be doubted that this