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tiful sentence ! where but in Scripture can we find its 
counterpart? A few of the simplest words which our 
language affords are here thrown together with sucb a 
matchless power that hard must be that heart which 
refuses to be touched by them. Oh ! is it not wonderful 
that any one can deny that the Bible bears the impress 
of divinity ? Where is the man to be found who fias 
written, —where is the man who ever shall write words 
like these? Archbishop Leighton makes so striking a 
comment on the expression 44 Ail the glory of man? that 
I cannot refrain from inserting it. 44 There is indeed a 
great deal of seeming différence betwixt the outward 
conditions of life amongst men. Shall the rich, and 
honourable, and beautiful, and healthful, go in together, 
under the same name, with the baser and unhappier 
part, the poor, wretched sort of the world, who seem to 
be bom for nothing but sufferings and miseries ? At 
least, hath the wise no advantage beyond the fools ? Is 
ail grass ? Make you no distinction ? No : 4 ail is 
grass ; ’ or, if you will hâve some other name, be it so. 
Once this is true, that ail flesh is grass ; and if that 
glory which shines so much in your eyes must hâve a 
différence, then this is ail it can hâve, — it is but 4 the 
flower’ of that same grass; somewhat above the com- 
