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who love you, in pagan lands or christian lands - I had almost said, in heaven or hell- that man would sit in the best place
in the warmest end of your heart. Ah would'nt he Bradley. I know he would. Where then should you put Jesus Where have you
put him? Is he not too often pushed aside among the dear, airy nothings in the most confused corner of your heart? Ah how
truly it may be said of thousands who say, Jesus is mine, I know not where they have laid him . The good man who left his
company for awhile to lead you to his fireside and lovingly tended you, him you will remember with steady deep love while
memory lasts; but Jesus who came away from his home in heaven, as happy a home as God was able to make, him you do not love
so much, nor even as much as you would love me were I to walk down to your place some fine day and ask you how you did. How
ungrateful and unreasonable. The benevolent man who blessed you with so many kindnesses was only a sinful fellow mortal some
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