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 76 to be sinners, and therefore they do not feel the want of a Saviour. Now, why is this? I will tell you, something else is in the heart, and there is no room for God. A little folly may fill the heart, and a sin- gle sin may so blind and absorb the soul, that there shall be no room for anything else. REDEMPTION. A gentleman said he was once trying to converse with the captain of a whale ship, on the great importance of religion and the worth of the soul, when he inter- rupted him saying: "It is no use, no use, your conversation will have no effect. No, sir, no effect whatever. I cannot Digitized by Google.