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their necessities. For this you loved him, and in this I 

 exhort you to be like him. We were not made, each for 

 himself alone. We are mutually dependent, and an- 

 swerable to our dependence are the sympathies dispos- 

 ing us to mutual kindness. Were these always followed, 

 under the guidance of enlightened reason, and the dic- 

 tates of our moral nature, how would they increase the 

 amount of human happiness, how would they conform us 

 to the image of Him, whose glory it is to exercise loving 

 kindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth. 

 They are not holiness ; but under the light and power of 

 the gospel, through the Spirit, they lead to it, and with- 

 out them vain are all pretensions to it. " He that loveth 

 not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love 

 God, whom he hath not seen ? " 



4. Sincerity, also, is a shining virtue in which he, 

 being dead,yet speaketh. I have already said, that one 

 who best knew him remembers no instance in which, 

 after he was old enough to act from principle, he inten- 

 tionally deceived him. We all, I presume, may say the 

 same. He made no false pretensions. He never said 

 Avhat he did not mean. He would not equivocate to 

 hide a fault, or compass an end. He was thoroughly 

 honest. He was to be trusted in any concern. And 

 how much is this to be said of any one ! Society is 

 founded in confidence, and confidence in sincerity. Did 

 the young men before me know how much their success 



