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cere, with whom he could not worship the Great 

 Spirit to whom all look up, enter into their views, 

 excuse what he might consider as their prejudices, 

 and respect their piety ; and whether it were in the 

 pope's chapel, or the parish church, he felt the so- 

 cial glow, 



" To gang together to the kirk, 



And all together pray; 

 Where each to his great Father hends, 

 Old men, and babes, and loving friends, 



And youths and maidens gay." 



The affection he thus felt for others, he in general 

 had the happiness of finding reciprocal, " for love 

 must owe its origin to love." No one had less of a 

 sectarian spirit ; nor did he ever attempt to make 

 converts, except to christian charity. 



Where speaking, in his Tour, of some customs 

 in the catholic church, " The stocks and stones," he 

 observes, " which the people are taught to worship, 

 are dressed out to their imagination with attributes 

 of rectitude and benignity, borrowed from the pure 

 idea of an intellectual Deity ; for so congenial are 

 virtue and benevolence to the human mind, that no 

 system of worship could support itself without their 

 semblance ; and even those most corrupt in prin- 

 ciple could have little success in practice, without 

 a constant appeal to the eternal law written in our 

 hearts : — as to forms, the mind will associate its 

 conceptions with visible objects. The devotion of 

 some persons is best excited in a choir, of others in 

 a conventicle, and of others in the holy house of 

 Lorctto ; but f one is their Father, even God'." 



