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day and every hour. Literature, science, above all, the 

 word of God, requires us to advance in knowledge. 

 Meanwhile, the moral state should be improved — the 

 heart more influenced by holy affections — the conscience 

 more prompt and equitable in its decisions. For all 

 this Divine power is needed ; for " every good gift and 

 every perfect gift is from above :" to that power, then, 

 let us look, on it let us rely, and its experience let us 

 constantly supplicate, until the progress of time shall be 

 complete, and we enter on that of a glorious immor- 

 tality I 



THE END. 



LOKDON : 

 PKINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLET, 



Bangor House, Shoe Lane. 



