Collins, the freethinker, met a plain countryman going to church. He
asked him where he was going. "To church sir." "What to do there?" "To
worship God." "Pray, whether is your God a great or little God?" "He is
both, sir." "How can He be both?" "He is so great that the heaven of
heavens cannot contain Him, and so little that He can dwell in my
heart." Collins declared that this simple answer had an effect upon his
mind such as all the volumes which learned men had written against him
had not.
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The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.
--_From the Danish._
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