The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Hallowed attachments are strengthened by division. That Being, who is essential Love, has the most numerous objects of regard-nor has any one reason to fear a diminished share by the multiplication of participants.

It is not a high station or a low one, great endowments of mind or moderate, that misleads us. It is the want of that balance of mind which is regulated by religious principles and a good disposition.

God has marked implicitness and simplicity of faith with peculiar approbation. He has done this throughout the Scriptures; and he is doing it daily in the Christian life. An unsuspected, unquestioning, unhesitating spirit, he delights to honour. He does not delight in a credulous, weak and unstable mind. He gives us full evidence, when he calls and leads; but he expects to find in us what he himself bestows-an open ear and a disposed heart.

Though he gives us not the evidence of sense, yet he gives such evidence as will be heard by an open ear, and followed by a disposed heart: Thomas! because thou hast seen me thou hast believed : blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed. We are witnesses daily what an open ear and a disposed heart will do in men of the world. In pursuit--if place presents itself before them-if their persons and families and affairs are the object, a whisper, a hint, a probability, a mere chance, is a sufficient ground of action.

It is this very state of mind with regard to religion, which God delights in and honours.- He seems to put forth his hand, and, to say- Put thy hand in mine. Follow all my leadings. Keep thyself attentive to every turn.