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Show ARTICLE 13 Lady E. Duncan was an heiress and ?? W. Duncan was her physician during ?? illness. One day she told him she had made up her mind to marry and ?? ?? the name of the fortunate ?? she bade him go home and opened her Bible, giving him chapter and verse, a ?? he would find it out. He did so, and ?? what Nathan said unto David, "Thou are the man." Contentment is the most precious jewel of human life; and the war to attain it is, the surmounting difficulties by curbing vicious inclinations, fierce, unruly passions, and inordinate appetites in overcoming temptations, and bearing injuries with patience. Bowland Hill, entering one day the house of one of his congregation, saw a child on a rocking horse. "Dear me," he exclaimed "how wondrously like some Christians, there is motion, motion, but no progress." He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. |