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Mr Edttor.-The truth conveyed in the following extract, is so happily conceived and expressed that

 am induced to request place for it in your valuable Paper;-beleving that it will be to most of your readers, do not doubt that it will be acceptable to them. and gratifying to all but those whose sense of vision is Obscured to prevent them from seeing its comeliness. Yours, SELECTOR.

 "Why are so many good people SO much divided in their views of the scriptures seeing that they have but one Bible, and all read it in the same anguagea Because they belong to different sects and have diff: ferent systems, and they rather make the Bible bow to their own system, received by tradition from teir fathers, than to make their system bow to the Bible or Tn other words, each man. too generally views the Bible through the medium of his system, and, of course, twill appear to him to favor it. Just as if A, B, and c, should each put on different cooured glasses, puts on green spectaces, B yellow, and C blue; each one looks through his own glasses at piece of white paper, and each concludes that he IS right not remembering that he has his specta- cles on. Thus, to it appaars green, to B yellow, and to c blue They begin to aTgus on the subject, and it is impossible for any of them to convince another that he is wrong, each feels a conviction next to absolute certainty that his opinion is right But D, who has no spectacles on, and who is stand- ing looking on, during the contest very well knows that they are all wrong. He sees the spectaces on each mans nose, and easily accounts for the difer- ence. Thus one professor reads the Bible with John Calvin on his nose, another with John Wesley on his nose, third with John Gill on his nose, and fourth with good old Thomas Boston, or the good old lights of Scotland. Thrice happy is the man who lifts the Bible if it had dropt from Heaven into his hand alone, and whose eyes are annointed with the true eye salve that he may see."