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right Christian mind,” says Buskin, “will find its own image 
wherever it exists, it will seek for what it loves and draw it out of 
all dens and caves, and it will believe in its being often when it cannot see 
it, and always turn away its eyes from beholding vanity; and so it will 
lie lovingly over all the faults and rough places of the human heart, as 
the snow from heaven does over the hard and black and broken mountain 
rocks, following their forms truly, and yet catching light for them to make 
them fair, and that must be a steep and unkindly crag indeed which it 
cannot cover.”—Truly Christian charity, therefore, is indeed the very best 
thing in this whole wide world. But, says Daniel Webster,* “If charity 
denies its birth and parentage, if it turns infidel to the great doctrines of 
the Christian religion, if it turns unbeliever, it is no longer charity. There 
is no longer charity, either in a Christian sense or in the sense of juris¬ 
prudence, /or it separates itself from the fountain of its own creation 
“True charity, a plant divinely nurs’d, 
Fed by the love from which it rose at first, 
Thrives against hope, and, in the rudest scene, 
Storms but enliven its unfading green; 
Exuberant is the shadow it supplies. 
Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies.” 
— Cowper. 
Barberry. 
[BERBERIS.] 
This is a, shrubby plant, common in hedges ; its berries preserved 
in sugar are astringent and antifebrile ; its bark, especially that of the root, 
yields a yellow dye. 
* Speech, Supreme Court at Washington, Feb. 20, 1844. 
