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"How closely connected in the history of man are these three periods of a general meeting together! "The house of prayer--the house appointed for all living--and the house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

May we never separate these ideas from each other, but retain them in a sacred and profitable union! So shall our worshipping assemblies on earth be representatives of the general assembly and Church of the firstborn which are written in heaven." When the congregation dispersed, I entered into discourse with the Dairyman and a few of the poor of my flock, whose minds were of like disposition to his own.

He seldom could speak long together without some reference to his dear child.

He loved to tell how merciful his God had been to him, in the dutiful and affectionate attentions of his daughter.
All real Christians feel a tender spiritual attachment towards those who have been the instrument of bringing them to an effectual knowledge of the way of salvation: but when that instrument is one so nearly allied, how dear does the relationship become! If my friend the Dairyman was in any danger of falling into idolatry, his child would have been the idol of his affections.

She was the prop and stay of her parents' declining years, and they scarcely knew how sufficiently to testify the gratitude of their hearts, for the comfort and blessing which she was the means of affording them.
While he was relating several particulars of his family history to the others, I opened and read the following letter:-- "SIR,--Once more I take the liberty to trouble you with a few lines.