Education for Life. George Turnbull

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      and have taken too much pains to make a connexion evident, that is obvious at first sight. For what can be more clear than what I have been so long insisting upon? “That he who shews by experiments and samples, that he has a certain degree of power; really shews that he has that power. And that he who shews by a long train of honesty and goodness, that he is good, and honest, and worthy of trust; really shews that he is good, and honest, and worthy of trust.”

      Nor would I have dwelt so long upon this argument; had ever the works of our SAVIOUR been considered in this light, by any writer upon the subject that I have seen. <39>