WHAT IS MEANT BY A PILGRIM.

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  I suppose, that as Abel, and Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, confessed the fact, there can be no doubt of it, that all men "are pilgrims upon earth.*" When I first settled this point in my own mind, I confess I much wanted to know what a "pilgrim" meant. The first Roman Catholic writer I chanced to read soon put me out of doubt; and I found that the pilgrims of that church were men, who, burdened with the weight of some particular offences, usually set out on some long journey, to show their penitence, and to lay down their sin on the altar of some celebrated saint.