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132 ground for reting in hope until the toil of virtue is over, and faith has nothing to be exercied on.

It is the fahion now for young men to be deits. And many a one has improper books ent adrift in a ea of doubts—of which there is no end. This is not a land of certainty; there is no confining the wandering reaon, and but one clue to prevent its being lot in endles reearches. Reaon is indeed the heaven-lighted lamp in man, and may afely be truted when not entirely depended on; but when it pretends to dicover what is beyond its ken, it certainly tretches the