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1t is not plncing your name at the foot of a
carefully COll::;tCl.lct.cu crcco, or going ever ~Q
often through the mere form~ of uc\"otion, or
Occoming fired with zeal for some particular
phase of Christianity, to the neglect of it.':l hidden
life anti it..q f'iallcti(\'illg power, that Can
avail. To go thll~ far and liD farther, will
Qul,r narrow the mind and corrupt the henrt.
Thi:i kind of religion will be sure to reuder
you morose and repulsive. But be such Chris.tians
ns Wn.~ DOYle,or Hnle, or 'Vilbcrforcc, or
be such Chrj~tians as enn be fouou by thou.
sands in every pn,rt of the land, and YOll will
be the better for it, for thm life and th~ life to
corne.
On this point I speak earnestly, for I feel
deeply. Adopt the religion of the Dible-that
religion which exalts Ood on the throuc of the
univcffle1 ntJd InJs man low in the dwt at his
foot.stool-tllflt relibrion which brinKS tho real.
itil'S of etemity near, and yet uoc.qJlot ovclluvk
the conccru:s of timc-th3.t religion which hegins
with a deep aud. hE'-arttclt com-iction of
the c\'il of sin, amI cuds with a crown of right-
COuHne8S-thnt religion which is afraid uf of.
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