Employs them in the service of religion. Every faculty of body and soul,
when considered as a part of "the purchased possession" of the Saviour,
assumes a new character. How powerfully does the apostle on this ground
urge a plea for holy activity and watchfulness! "What! know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have
of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price;
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's." The Christian may derive much profit and enjoyment from the use
of the memory as it concerns those transactions in which he once bore a
part. In his endeavours to recall past conversations and intercourse
with deceased friends, in particular, the powers of remembrance greatly
improve by exercise. One revived idea produces another, till the mind is
most agreeably and usefully occupied with lively and holy imaginations.
"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked
by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! Each
stamps its image as the other flies. Each, as the varied avenues of
sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades; yet
all, with sacred art, Control the latent fibres of the heart." May it
please God to bless, both to the reader and the writer, this feeble
attempt to recollect some of the communications which I once enjoyed in
my visits to the Dairyman's dwelling. Very soon after the receipt of the
last letter, I rode for the first time to see the family at their own
house. The principal part of the road lay through retired narrow lanes,
beautifully overarched with groves of nut and other trees, which
screened the traveller from the rays of the sun, and afforded many
interesting
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