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if they withhold. Why is it that so many 
people, though they make money, and never 
give any away 5 are in debt all the time? 
How often do professors of religion say, 
that they would not give their hope of 
heaven for all the world, and yet refuse a 
very small amount of their part ofjbhe world, 
to give others that same hope of heaven. 
If the hope of heaven is so valuable to you 
and makes you so happy, and puts you in 
possession of joy inexpressible and abiding, 
think you not that it will be of as much 
value to that dark African ( whose mind is 
darker than his skin ) as it is to you ? That 
a well grounded hope of heaven is of more 
value to an individual than all the world 
would be, is certainly true ; but that those 
who are so close-fisted as to refuse a respect- 
able portion of their means, to put within 
the reach of the heathen the same hope, are 
in possession of a well founded hope of 
heaven, is certainly a mistake. 
" I speak as unto wise men, judge ye what 
I say." 
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