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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Dec 12, 1854

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 6, No. 17.

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Recollection and Religious Retirement

By Richard Cecil

Recollection is the life of religion. The Christian wants to have his heart elevated more above the world by secluding himself from it as much as his duties will allow, that religion may effect this, its great end, by bringing its sublime hopes and prospects into more steady action on the mind. I know not how it is that some Christians can make so little of retirement. I find the spirit of the world a strongassimilating principle. I find it hurrying my mind away in its vortex, and sinking me among the dregs of a carnal nature.—R. Cecil.