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summed them up altogether, to give you an idea 

 of what I have seen. 



Good Friday. Before we went to 

 church to-day, my uncle spoke to us for a short 

 time on the solemn event we were going to 

 commemorate ; and though my notes of what 

 he said can be of little use to you, yet I am 

 anxious to shew my dear mamma that I take 

 still more pains to profit by what he tells us on 

 this most important subject, than upon Geology 

 or any thing else. 



" You are all too well acquainted with Scrip- 

 ture," said he, " not to know that the lesson 

 which it everywhere inculcates, is, that man by sin 

 and disobedience had fallen under the displeasure 

 of his Maker, and that there was an invincible 

 necessity, however inexplicable to our compre- 

 hension, that our Saviour should lay down his 

 life to redeem us from that sin, and to procure 

 for repentant sinners forgiveness and acceptance. 



" That the death of Christ was the real and 

 efficient sacrifice, of which the various offerings 

 under the law were but the types or shadows, 

 is evident from a crowd of passages in Holy Writ 

 to which I have repeatedly drawn your attention. 

 But as if to prevent the possibility of doubt on the 

 subject, St. Paul emphatically tells the Hebrews 

 that the High Priest entering into the Holy of 



