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now on the stage may
to encounter whch, though familiar
in kind, will exceed in
degree, [??] cannot be foreseen
those now experienced. On a
subject of this kind, it becomes me
not to speaking positively.
Yet so far as my own
exmaination of [prophecy?] ^{yet to be fulfilled} has extended,
I am led to believe, that days'
more difficult & perilous than
any whch have been witnessed
since the beginning of the Gospel
dispensation, are before us.--
This is not the time nor the place
to assign reasons for this opinion.
Admitting, however,
its correctness the generation of youth
who are to succeed those
now upon the stage are coming
into active life at a very important
& critical period of the world. Of this our youth
generally ought to be apprized; those
especially who ^{under our patronage} are receiving an
education, which is to prepare them