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chain between them. Under the Patriarchal 

 dispensation all men were taught to look forward 

 to the promised Deliverer ; under Christianity 

 all men are taught to rejoice in the actual ap- 

 pearance of that promised Deliverer, who has 

 done and suffered everything that was predicted 

 of him. 



" Christianity has not yet become universal ; 

 but the purpose of the Almighty is still power- 

 fully though silently working. In the appointed 

 time, ' the earth shall be full of the knowledge 

 of the Lord,' and the Messiah will be universally 

 acknowledged by Gentiles, Jews, and all nations. 

 ' Thus from first to last, under the Three Suc- 

 cessive Dispensations/ has God carried on one 

 consistent and harmonious scheme of grace and 

 mercy for the salvation of his fallen creatures." 



bth. This evening, in talking of the variety 

 of representations that different historians give 

 of the same facts, my uncle was lamenting the 

 loss of the many ancient works which are alluded 

 to in contemporary authors, but which appear 

 to have perished ; and he particularly regretted 

 the 105 books of Livy's Roman History, which 

 originally consisted of 142. "But," he added, 

 66 there are some hopes that they may yet be 

 recovered." 



Mary asked him if there was any chance of 



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