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I Have Made It A Practice For Several Years To Read The Bible Through In The Course Of Every Year. I Usually Devote To This Reading The First Hour After I Rise Every Morning. As, Including The Apocrypha, It Contains About Fourteen Hundred Chapters, And As I Meet With Occasional Interruptions, When This Reading Is For Single Days, And Sometimes For Weeks, Or Even Months, Suspended, My Rule Is To Read Five Chapters Every Morning, Which Leaves An Allowance Of About One-forth Of The Time For Such Interruptions.

The Law Given From Sinai Was A Civil And Municipal As Well As A Moral And Religious Code; It Contained Many Statutes . . . Of Universal Application-laws Essential To The Existence Of Men In Society, And Most Of Which Have Been Enacted By Every Nation Which Ever Professed Any Code Of Laws.

I Say Women Exhibit The Most Exalted Virtue When They Depart From The Domestic Circle And Enter On The Concerns Of Their Country, Of Humanity, And Of Their G-d!

Of All Persecuted Sects, The Baptists Stand Forth As Most Prominent, Simply And Only Because They Aim At A More Complete And Thorough Reform Than Any Others Ever Attempted. They Teach That Christ's Kingdom Is Not Of This World; That The Church Is Not A National, Political, Or Provincial Establishment; But A Congregation Of Holy Men, Separated From The World By The Receiving Of The Holy Spirit.

America... Goes Not Abroad, In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All.