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to give. The truly beneficent man is the happiest man." (p. 184.)

ANGELS— AND THEIR FELLOWSHIP WITH MEN.

"One thing our experience may teach us: whenever we are actively engaged in the uses of charity, from the love of doing good, we are most richly and consciously blessed. The reason is, that we are thereby brought into association with those angels of the Lord's kingdom who are in the love of similar uses; and those angels are made to us mediums of blessings from the Lord by imparting to us of their affections and delights. Thus by the law of spiritual affinity, which draws together those who are animated by similar affections, the angels, though unseen, associate with us and fit us for the higher uses of the eternal world. In this way they are * ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.' Heb. i: 4." (pp. 184, 185.)

GOD'S PURPOSE IN CREATION. "The moving cause of creation was the Divine Love. The Lord did not create the universe for his own sake, but because He desired the existence of beings in his own image and likeness, whom He

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