Religion is a barren speculation when it is treated merely as a theory. It should uniformly be represented as a practical system; the tendency of its doctrines to promote holiness of heart and life should be pointed out, and the nature of holiness explained, that men may know what are the good works which it is incumbent upon them, as the professed disciples of Christ, to maintain. "A scribe well instructed unto the kingdom of heaven," a minister who would declare all the counsel of God to the people under his charge, must be an able expounder of the law, as well as a zealous preacher of the gospel.

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