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CHARITY.
There is no heart so hardened and depraved, that it will not, when the soft voice of Charity whispers peace and forgiveness, yield like wax beneath the hand which stamps it. Then is the moment to impress upon it the sacred precepts of virtue, and to place the bright rewards of penitence before it. "Let us, then, do as we would that others should do unto us;" have mercy upon the fallen, and stretch forth the hand of Charity to the suffering and the penitent.
