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TilE VALVE 0)' GOU!> I'I!lNCII'LI:8. 18:'i
willer tbll.ll the lnnd which g:wt1 them Lirlh.
:3ille by !!idc, they rose from Olltl position of
honor :md trust to another, until liO earthly
F\'l,)ry which men can dl\"irt., 1't'I'm ...d \"lCJond
their :reach. Dut here thfl p.'lrallf'i f:riIl\. One
of thCFc distinguished iTIlli"idu:tl~ had good
J1rinciplt~l'l, the other was lllll'rilll'iplcd.
The fi~t of these men early in lift: east oft'
tile fear of the God of his fathe~, 1'8uounccd
tll\~Dible as a light from hc..'l. ...cn, gloried o...er
tbe ~poils of 1i'lIlllle virtue, killed in a ducl a
man fur bctwr t hall himself, became !lllspected
of trcn:.;ollngaim;t hiH country, gmdllnlly ,dunk
awn)' from all decent ROCicty, anti when he
dIed was earrietl to the grave and put ulluer
the docls of the yalley in silence tUld sorrow.
Th ...re was 110 lamentatiuu over him. 1\oolle
sted a. u:nr, eXlJt'pt in pity that ~uch a. 15un
Bhouhl set in clouds so dark alltI troubled.
Kot so tho other. Living a ljj~ of unsuspe;]
purity, eultimting 1131,i'15 of the ~trictcst
temperance, mnking the Scriptures hi~ uaily
I;tudYl neyer failing tQ be in hi.'! prwon the
;;l.tbbath, aoll devoting bimselftoduly with an
tllergy t1mt never ga.ve out, he f08t' f"Jlll ()n~