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 TRUE RELIGION A SOURCE OF PLEASURE.

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Her ways are of pleasantness, and her paths are peace.

are few opinions which have attained greater currency in the world, than that religion is a very dull, austere, melancholy affair; and that, in order to make the Christian profession in since and truth, a person must bid adieu to the pleasures of life, and to every enjoyment that renders life desirable. It is, ind very certain that serious, practical pi which has it basis in the fear and love of God is an utter enemy to that noisy merriment that characterizes the laughter of fools, and which the scriptures assimilate the "crackling of thorns under a pot"  mere flash of the moment, occasioned by