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Nothing is so valuable and important to man as Meditation_ We all know that a life of bustle and constant engagements in the world is a life of danger. Tossed as it were on the Ocean, and driven about by the conflicting elements, we live in a state of agitation and confusion; we are delivered over from toil to toil, or from dissipation to dissipation, without power to stand still, to examine and consider. Now, this danger is diminished by frequent Meditation. It sets the world and its views at a distance from us. It gives us time to reflect where we are, and what we are. The still eventide of reflexion drives out of our minds the cares and concerns of the day: the calm solicitude the field chaces away from our thoughts the tumults and projects of the crowded haunts of men.
