Part 14 (1/2)

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Say not alhat you know, but always knohat you say

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Never sign a paper you have not read, nor drink water you have not examined

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No two persons are evera third

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There are cereel

--_Bovee_

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Excess of cere--that civility is best which excludes all superfluous fors are those that have already happened

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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Dr Chalmers of Scotland, arrived in London, on the 13th of May, 1817, and on the following day preached in Surrey Chapel, the anniversary serh the service did not co the chapel was crowded to excess, and ave out his text from 1 Cor xiv, 22-25 He had not proceeded th and co universal attention

His serentleman wrote to a friend: ”I have just heard and witnessed thedisplay of hu; all my expectations were overwhelmed in the triumph of it”

At an afternoon service he preached in the Scotch Church, in S Street On approaching the church, Dr Chalmers and a friend found so dense a ive no hope of effecting an entrance by the ently tapping the heads of those ere in advance, Dr

Chalmers' friend exclaimed, ”Make way there, make way please, for Dr

Chal it was a ruse Forced to retire, Dr Chalmers retreated from the outskirts of the crowd, crossed the street, stood for a fewtuether to withdraw, as access by any of the ordinary entrances was impossible At last a plank was projected from one of the s very near the pulpit, till it rested on an iron palisade, and the Doctor and others gained entrance The impression produced by the service which follohen all had at last settled down into stillness, was deeper than that made by any of those which preceded it