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the company of the saints and makes him, not merely keener and more 

 intelligent, but also more sympathetic, and a better man. Sometimes 

 in our day-dreams we see great revolutions resulting from a general 

 study of the history of Christianity; the divisions of Christendom 

 vanishing before the spread of a scientific, because historically 

 groimded, theology, and all that is vital and permanent in Chris- 

 tianity incorporated into the convictions of every educated man. 



