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F we look for any comfort in friendhip or ociety, we mut aociate with thoe who have fixed principles with repect to religion; for without them, repeated experience convinces me, the mot hining qualities are untable, and not to be depended on.

It has often been a matter of urprie to me, that so few people examine the tenets of the religion they profes, or are chritians through conviction. They have no anchor to ret on, nor any fixed chart to direct them in