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108 I am apt to imagine, that orrow and reignation are not incompatible; and that though religion cannot make ome diappointments pleaant, it prevents our repining, even while we mart under them. Did our feelings and reaon always coincide, our paage through this world could not jutly be termed a warfare, and faith would no longer be a virtue. It is our preferring the things that are not een, to thoe which are, that proves us to be the heirs of promie.

On the acred word of the Mot High, we rely with firm aurance, that the ufferings of the preent life will