kQ4 ON HIGH PROFESSION valuable a consideration, as the glory of that Godwhom it may be his constant aim to glorify ; and they do not think they exalt him sufficiently, if it be not done at the expence ofothers among his brethren, to whom he perhaps looks up with reve- rence. There is a wide difference between the kindness of praise and the grossness of adulation ; between affection and wor- ship ; between gratitude and idolatry. Since the human mind is soconstituted as sometimes to require remission from its stricter engagements ; since it feels the need of relaxing into some intervals of pleasure ; it is no unimportant object to enquire what pleasures are dangerous, what are safe, and what may even be made instructive, where improvement is not the professed object. The person's in question have little turn for books ; might it not usefully fill many a vacant gap were they to devote a little of their leisure to rational reading? There is much valuable literature which occupies a large intermediate space be-
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