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Think Of Your Child, Then, Not As Dead, But As Living; Not As A Flower That Has Withered, But As One That Is Transplanted, And Touched By A Divine Hand, Is Blooming In Richer Colors And Sweeter Shades Than Those Of Earth.

He That Goeth About To Persuade A Multitude That They Are Not So Well Governed As They Ought To Be Shall Never Want Attentive And Favorable Hearers.

For Men To Be Tied And Led By Authority, As It Were With A Kind Of Captivity Of Judgment, And Though There Be Reason To The Contrary Not To Listen Unto It, But To Follow Like Beasts The First In The Herd, They Know Not, Nor Care Not Whither, This Were Brutish.

God Is No Captious Sophister, Eager To Trip Us Up Whenever We Say Amiss, But A Courteous Tutor, Ready To Amend What, In Our Weakness Or Our Ignorance, We Say Ill, And To Make The Most Of What We Say Aright.

See We Not Plainly That Obedience Of Creatures Unto The Law Of Nature Is The Stay Of The Whole World?