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18 occasion when called to solemnise a marriage in a family where he often visited them were several persons who had never heard him preach whose religions Sentiments were at varience with his, and who made no pretensions to Spiritual religion. The good lady of the house being desirous that the occasion might be improved for their special benefit proposed to Dr. Payson that he should give a religious exhortation to the Company purchance they might be converted, which unclear he promptly declined Seeing at once the impropriety of the measure. Religion is good for all men, undoubtedly, but it cannot be thrust into the hearts of men. It must be welcomed there. Even the visit to the bedside of the sick does not always require the formal religious conversation and intercession, a Cheery look, a pleasant smile, the introduction of some foreign Subject to call the attention away from