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OF THE DELIGHTS OF PIETY.


bored into the primeval rock, embosomed in the mountain, and drink cool sweet water that never fails.

This delight is for yon and me, and every one of us; and when we have this pure abstract enjoyment, which comes of piety in our soul, then the love of God will run over into morality, into love of men in every form! and, in addition to these dear delights of piety, we shall have the joys of philanthropy, of justice, of wisdom, and of all human consciousness in its thousand forms!