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CHAPTER XLII.
44 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when
he fought in the day of battle; and the Lord shall be King over all the
earth; in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one."
Zeehariah, ch. xiv.
IT is not to be demanded of one attempting to ferret out
a treasonable conspiracy, that he should be perfect in judgment;
he must scpze upon persons whose guilt is quite
doubtful even in his own poor judgment, and hold them
prisoners for the examination of the court and jury. This
is his duty; and no man who is unwilling to run a small
risk of being suspected as accessary to the crime,^and as a
party to the treason, will dare to reprove him for want of
charity in the honest discharge of that duty.
The writer may sometimes build an argument on small
premises, may attach undue importance to minor truths,
may draw conclusions little satisfactory to the deeper penetration
of some, and may extend his inferences beyond the
easy apprehension of others. Upon all these, and similar
points, he is ready to plead to the reader's compassion and
better judgment But let not the glorious doctrine which
conceals itself, profane the name of charity, upon a resolute
attempt to discover its bearings and tendency; that were insufferable.
Esprit du Dogme, p. 41.— M THE POT or INCENSE.
" This reminds us, as it did the Levites, of the fire of virtue
which ought to inflame the heart with a masonic zeal.
The censor used by the ancients was in the form of a per-