tormenting, which make so prominent a part of human corruption. I can discern that the views of such persons are so one-sided, and so narrow, that it is scarcely possible to make them accord with. reason; and that when once we abandon the use of reason, there is nothing too preposterous, or too absurd, or even too cruel, for the human being to engage in.

The great desideratum seems to me to be the possession of a well grounded confidence in the dictates of an interior and infallible guide. The most excellent of truths that have to pass through faulty and infirm agents in their transmission, can never come to us without alloy. This is to be remembered, and allowed for; or else there will be (as at one period of my life there was for me) no peace, no rest, no belief of having done one's duty till the greater part of our friends and acquaintance are renounced as infidels, and the general conduct is that of a person who had, upon principle, abjured the use of common sense.

The very essence of fanaticism consists in taking our stand upon some particular doctrine, and, forgetting how limited and low our knowledge (as imperfect creatures) is likely to be of the full bearing of that doctrine,--the legislating from it for all the world; and, though purblind with prejudice, and cramped with bigotry, still supposing that we are seeing and judging in the freedom and impartiality of the Spirit of Truth.

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THOUGHT AND FEELING.

In a word, "I have seen an end of all perfection," - and am come to the commandment of the Lord, which" is exceeding broad." Here I rest, and on this I hope;-committing my helpless soul to Him who has been with me in all my trials and temptations; and who, in the sharpest of them, never" took his loving kindness utterly away, nor suffered his faithfulness to fail."