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The Record " ventures to indulge the hope" that, "in spite

of all the grievous mischief that Mr. Maurice did by his erroneous teaching, his efforts after a more genial Christianity than that taught in the Scriptures of truth did not leave his own soul destitute of the sinner's only hope." It is charitable of the Record to get so far as hoping that the greatest of all possible offenders against its own principles may not have been destitute of hope. No one who had so limitless a faith as he in God's love could have been destitute of hope. But how grotesque the medley of conceptions which makes hope necessary to its own fulfilment, and can believe in no eternal life for those who are destitute of hope, but not unworthy of love !