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i.-m. when compared with many of the notions 

 in the columns of religious newspapers, has any particular 

 offeusiveness for i i t<> fun) m--n who are 



scrupulous in their adherence to engagements, whose 

 words ure their )><>M<i. and to whom moral shiftiness of 

 any kind is subjectively unknown; if I wanted a IOMIIL: 

 father, a faithful husband, an honorable n.-iL'hbor, an-l 

 a just citi/<>n I should seek him, and lind him among 

 the baud of " atheists " to which I n: , noun 



-nine of the most pronounced am. MIL: them not only in 

 life btit in death seen them approaching with open eyes 

 tin- inexorable goal, with no dread of a hangman's 

 whip," with no hope of a heavenly crown, and still as 

 mindful of their duties, and as faithful in the discharge of 

 tin-in, as if their eternal future depended upon their latest 



Is. 



In lettersaddressed to myself, and in utterances addressed 



public, Faraday is often referred to as a sample of 



the association of religious faith with moral elevation. 1 



was locally intimate with him for fourteen or fifteen years 



of my life, and had thus occasion to observe how nearly 



his character approached wiiat might, without extrav- 



, he called perfection. He was strong but gentle, 



urns but self-restrained; a sweet and lofty courtesy 



marked his dealings with men and wi.men; and though ho 



_ from the bodv <f the people, a nature so line mi^ht 



well have IMM-M distilled from the ilower of a 



chivalry. Not only in its broader House was the Christian 



religion necessary t< ;iy's spiritual peace, but in what 



would call the narrow sense hel' ! by those described 



.t'iav himself as ' a very small and despised sect of 



1 , known, if known at all, as 8 mians," it 



constituted the light and comfort of his days. 



routined to such cases, it u 

 furnish an irre8istible ai _MIHH nt in favor of the asHoci 



>n with moral purity and grace. Hut. 



as already intt is not thus confined. 



In further illustration of ll. I with 



philosopher of equal magnitude, whose character, 



incln lenegfl and *t iieity. 



..il power and i resembles 



.mil. but win. ha- : 



the theologic views nor th* religious emotions which 



