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From {he 'Conn. CouRAxf. aTIhe Brief Remarker. £p;faclaiinininyHicIN the natural world* the x light succeeded to the dark-nefs. The evening and the m ning were the firjfi day. And wht a morning ! Had thire been hujman eyes to behold it, how flupendoufly magnificent we^e the sight of the new born sun rifinfg in majefty, and goi tig forth in his ftrength ! But tljus in procefs of time becoming a common spectacle, scarcely excited attention. 1 he mare part of mankind, if we except the idolatrous worihippers of the' heavenly bodies, behold he rifing, the sitting and meridian splendor of the Glorious Sun- with the same apathy‘as they behold the moft trivial objects about them*In the moral world, a!fa the Light succeeded to the dark-nefg. No sooner, was the human family mantled with dark-neft, thick darknefs, by the apoilacy, than light sprang up: light that wag small and faint at-the firlt, but gradually in-creafed from age to age, till the Sun of Rightcoufnefs arose—That glorious luminary, whofe ber-efits are as much superior to thofe of the natural sun, as the soul is superiour to the body, is conftantly fhedding down his ; gr light upon our minds, upon pa our hearts, and upon our paths: Va and vet we are alike unmindful of thefe benefits, as of thofe which we derive from the sun in the firmament. We have grown up under them from infancy. The moral light we behold, and which we always hav£ been accultomed to behold, is so clear, fo plain, sol confonant to' reafon, that we! wo miftake if for the light of meic! uin reafon itfelf. I Jretheranfelt;VImrom;ovrethbewitUioftheofasixwhOrthian'
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Newburyport Herald And Commercial Gazette
Newburyport, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Aug 13, 1816
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