in minds entirely uncultivated. And it need not be feared that instruction will render the poor more miserable, by making them more sensible of their humble condition. Sound religious knowledge will teach them, that happiness may be enjoyed as fully in a cottage as in a palace; that contentment with our condition is the duty of all; and that want and affliction furnish a very salutary discipline, by which faith is tried, virtue improved, and the soul prepared for a better world. The discontented,
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