Blount Tempest . CHAPTER MORNING MEDITATIONS. But as there lives a true God in the heaven, So is there true rehpion here on earth:By nature ? No, 1)y p^race: not got, })ut given; Inspired, not taught: from God a second birth;God dwelloth near about us, even withinWorking the goodness, censuring the sin. TONGUE of land, some four or five milesin breadth, washed npon one side bythe waters of Morecombe Bay and onthe other by the river Laune, is inter-posed between the town of Launcester and thesea. It is occupied for the most part by farms,and by fishermen, whose white-washed cottages,that

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Blount Tempest . CHAPTER MORNING MEDITATIONS. But as there lives a true God in the heaven, So is there true rehpion here on earth:By nature ? No, 1)y p^race: not got, })ut given; Inspired, not taught: from God a second birth;God dwelloth near about us, even withinWorking the goodness, censuring the sin. TONGUE of land, some four or five milesin breadth, washed npon one side bythe waters of Morecombe Bay and onthe other by the river Laune, is inter-posed between the town of Launcester and thesea. It is occupied for the most part by farms,and by fishermen, whose white-washed cottages,thatched roofs, shrimping nets, and tackle, dot thepeninsula, cleanly, pleasant, picturesque to theeye, among the fields radiant with clover andwith gorgeous poppy flowers. Nestling beneatha line of tall elms, and overhung with sycamores,surrounded by farm-fields which are protected byembankments from the overflowins^ of the Laune, BLOrXT TEMPEST. 245 lies Scale-Hall, near which Mabel had appointedher rendezvous with Blount. Everyt

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