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rests on our own disposition and thoughts, much 

 more than on those outward circumstances 

 which appear coloured by our feelings ; just as 

 objects appear the colour of the glass through 

 which you look at them. But," added she, " I 

 came not to moralise, but to beg of you to come 

 out and walk." 



Out we went ; and my thoughts soon turned 

 from the scenes I have been lamenting, to the 

 satisfactory feeling of having, in both my coun- 

 tries, such dear and good friends. 



2lst. Sunday. In the course of a conversa- 

 tion this morning about the Sabbath day, a lady, 

 who is here on a visit, remarked that it was the 

 idea of some people, that the Sabbath, having 

 been instituted at the time that the Israelites 

 received the Ten Commandments, is not binding 

 on Christians, any more than the other Levitical 

 institutions. 



In order to show what a mistaken idea that 

 is, my uncle read to us the extract which I am 

 going to copy here. 



" It is a great mistake to consider the Sabbath 

 as a mere festival of the Jewish church, deriving 

 its whole sanctity from the Levitical law. The 

 religious observation of the seventh day is in- 

 cluded, in the Decalogue, among our first duties ; 

 but the reason assigned for the injunction is ge- 

 neral, and has no relation to the particular cir- 



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