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have too often disgraced our name and faith. 

 Thank Heaven, with many a doubt as to the time 

 that must elapse ere that glad day shall come, I can 

 look onward with confidence to a period — I trust 

 not far remote, — when throughout the length and 

 breadth of Australia, Christian civilization shall 

 attest that the claims upon England's benevolence 

 have been nobly acknowledged ! 



