Chalcedony. A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.

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“God often bestows temporal prosperities on the wicked, to show how lightly he esteems what the world is so dazzled with; but crosses he reserves for his own, whom he would humble under his Almighty hand, and make them the objects of his delight.”
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