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THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES.

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CHAPTER I.

Truth and his Vocation.

ELIGION'S eldest born is

TRUTH. With a noble, intellectual brow, and an eye of piercing brilliancy; with an expression of habitual composure, and an attitude of sublime dignity, he seems not unworthy of his exalted position, as the first born of all the DIVINE FAMILY.

TRUTH'S peculiar vocation is universal instruction. Limited to no distinct department, but permitted to range as widely as venturesome inquiry, he teaches the present and the future, dwells particularly upon the past, and reveals the characters and the doings of God and man.

In the DIVINE FAMILY, however, TRUTH usu

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