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life the least desirable of all. Such things happen to all flesh, but to sinners sevenfold more. For though the irreligious may ignore his soul, yet will she not be ignored. If she cannot have the truth and the love she craves, she will turn and fill herself with the husks of sin. If he will not praise God in prayer, be sure he will not fail to blaspheme. If he will not sanctify the Sabbath day by going to church, you may look for him in the policy shop or den of iniquity. If he will not drink the chalice of His blood that Christ offers him, he will drain the glass of hellfire the devil ministers. Ah! who shall tell the consequent miseries to himself and family! As well try to count the drops of rain or the sighs of the wind, as enumerate the tears of his poor children or the moans of his heart-broken mother, wife, or sister. Life, God knows, is at best wretched enough, but life without religion would be unbearable. It would be this earth without the sun; a wild night with no moon; a trackless expanse of stormy ocean with no hope of land or friends beyond. Were the uncreated offered life without religion, they would shrink in horror from existence; for their greatest happiness would be that of never having been. But with religion as our guide we are consoled through it all. We see the thorns of life spiritualized in Our Saviour's crown; and hope carries us on to that happy land where our places shall be allotted, not by the favors of fortune or the accident of birth, but where each has the making of his own future; all happy, the afflicted comforted and the weary at rest.