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Verses written in the portico of the temple of liberty at Woburn Abbey

on placing before it the statues of Locke and Erskine, in the summer of 1835 [by J. H. Wiffen]
 
 

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“UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION, THE GREAT CAREER OF THE WORLD HAS BEEN SLOWLY, BUT CLEARLY ADVANCING,—LIGHTER AT EVERY STEP, FROM THE ENCOURAGING PROPHECIES OF THE GOSPEL, AND LEADING, I TRUST, IN THE END, TO UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL HAPPINESS.” —Erskine.