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"AND DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENT'S MEAT. "-_Isaiah_ lv, 25.
IT is a most undoubted truth, that, as in the planetary system one star differs from another in glory, so it is in the Church of God-though the elect are loved alike, chosen and provided for alike, and shall all be partakers of the same glory in ultimate bliss-the infant who died this day, and the mind of the apostle Paul will be alike there; yet, in the Church Militant it is not so. God the divine Spirit, is a sovereign in all his dispensations; and while some of the people of God have scarcely been known here, but through the solitary lane of life, have pursued the noiseless tenor of their way-treasures hid in the sand-a Sparrow alone-a Pelican of the Wilderness-and, as finely described by one of our Poets-