shine before his congregation, as a husband and a father. Monkery is abolished, and men are directed to exercise their virtue in the natural employments of life, and while standing and working in the world, to keep themselves unspotted from it. True at the same time, purely material interests, traffick and trade, industry and steam, and along with all this utilitarianism and selfism, have acquired an importance to which they are not entitled. For the spirit ought to reign over matter. But still,
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