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 merciful, patient under injuries, and forgiving. It is this that softens the heart, melts at another's woe, is anxious to afford relief, and is never so happy as when doing good. It is charity that purifies the affections, gives a charm to human existence, and forms the kingdom of Heaven in the soul of man. This will shew us how essential is charity in the important business of salvation; in fact, there can be no religion where charity is not. As true spiritual charity is the love of goodness, so GOOD WORKS are nothing but this love manifesting itself in such outward actions as correspond to the purity of the love that rules within. Thus GOOD WORKS can only spring forth from the union of CHARITY and FAITH.

They are seen in every noble action, as in benevolence, in affording consolations to the sick—relief to the needy and distressed; in being strictly just and upright in all our worldly transactions with our fellow men, and in doing all we can to promote the temporal interests of all with whom we have to do.

is Revelation's light shining in the soul, and directing the mind of man to the adoration of One Supreme Being as the Author and Giver of all Good. is the ardent love of the will, directed to all that is pure and holy; and GOOD WORKS are those outward actions which rule the external life, guiding our feet in the way of peace. The relative importance of these in man's salvation is clearly seen; for Faith enlightens the understanding, corrects the wanderings and errors of the mind, leads into all truth, and points out the way to Heaven. Charity, which is the Love of God, operating in the soul, purifies the will, raising the affections above the things of time, and fixing the