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Rh the purifying of their hearts. He who made us mut know what will tend to our ultimate good; yet till all this is grievous, and the heart will throb with anguih when deprived of what it loves, and the tongue can carcely faulter out an acquiecence to the Divine Will, when it is o contrary to our own. Due allowance ought then to be made for human infirmities, and the unhappy hould be conidered as objects of compaion, rather than blame. But in a very different tile does conolatory advice generally run; for intead of pouring oil or wine into the wound, it tends to convince the unfortunate perons that they are weak as well as unhappy. I am