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[upper left corner, in ink]
Oct. 22. '48 [1848]: So. [South] Malden.
Oct. 20: '50 [1850]: Sac. [Sacramento] City.
[in pencil] Oct. 22 ~

[upper right corner]
No. 44.
A.M.
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Luke 6:31. [centered]
~ [centered]

"And as ye would that men
Should do to you, do ye also to them
likewise" ~
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This com. [command] called "Golden rule" –
no more golden than any other prac-
-tical percept of X^nity [Christianity].

It is sublime & beautiful – a fine &
just epitome of human conduct.
Heathens had rules something like it
but not so full & well expressed.
X^nity [Christianity] may be fearlessly tried by any of
its practical precepts.

In all respects – esp. [especially] in this – "C. [Christ] spake [spoke] as never
man" – – his rules of faith & practice com-

[upper left corner, in ink]
Oct. 22. '48 [1848]: So. [South] Malden.
Oct. 20: '50 [1850]: Sac. [Sacramento] City.
[in pencil] Oct. 22 ~

[upper right corner]
No. 44.
A.M.
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Luke 6:31. [centered]
~ [centered]

"And as ye would that men
Should do to you, do ye also to them
likewise" ~
--------------- [centered]

This com. [command] called "Golden rule" –
no more golden than any other prac-
-tical percept of X^nity [Christianity].

It is sublime & beautiful – a fine &
just epitome of human conduct.
Heathens had rules something like it
but not so full & well expressed.
X^nity [Christianity] may be fearlessly tried by any of
its practical precepts.

In all respects – esp. [especially] in this – "C. [Christ] spake [spoke] as never
man" – – his rules of faith & practice com-