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worst evils. The man who is disposed to murmur at 

 the inclemency of the season, or at the loss of any of 

 those comforts which belong to the other seasons of the 

 year, should also reflect how far inferior his lot might 

 have been, had it been cast in those more northern 

 latitudes, where Winter almost divides the year, and 

 reigns with a rigour which is here unknown. Let the 

 discontented Englishman read the history of the Esqui- 

 maux, or of the inhabitants of Greenland, or Lapland, 

 and he will then learn how to prize his own land, and 

 his own temperate climate. Thanks be to God we 

 never lose sight of the sun for months together as they 

 do, and the comforts even of the poorest classes are 

 wealth and affluence compared to theirs. They have 

 moreover a moral winter resting upon their souls. 

 *' The Sun of Righteousness" has not yet arisen to cheer 

 them with his beams, and the mountains of ice, and 

 snow, which shut them out from the rest of mankind, 

 are but an emblem of the awful and deathlike coldness 

 which surround their prospects of another world. 

 How inscrutable, then, are the ways of God, that he 

 should thus have taken some and left others ! " How 

 past finding out" are the depths of that love which 

 has poured the light and warmth of divine truth over 



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