to witness, unmoved, the dying agonies of his widowed, murdered, mother! We have looked upon all this; and our object is, to purify the whole earth from these abominations. Our object will not have been accomplished till the tomahawk shall be buried for ever, and the tree of peace spread its broad branches from the Atlantic to the Pacific; until a thousand smiling villages shall be reflected from the waves of the Missouri, and the distant valleys of the west echo with the song of the reaper; till "the wil derness and the solitary place shall have been glad for us, and the desert has rejoiced and blossomed as the rose."

Our labours are not to cease, until the last slaveship shall have visited the coast of Africa, and the nations of Europe and America, having long since redressed her aggravated wrongs, Ethiopia, from the Mediterranean to the Cape, shall have stretched forth her hand unto God. How changed will then be the face of Asia! Brahmins, and sooders, and castes, and shasters, will have passed away, like the mist which rolls up the mountain's side before the rising glories of a summer's morning; while the land on which it rested, shining forth in all its loveliness, shall, from its numberless habitations, send forth the high praises of God and the Lamb. The Hindoo mother will gaze upon her infant with the same tenderness which throbs in the breast of any one of you who now hears me, and the Hindoo son will pour into the wounded bosom of his widowed parent the oil of peace and consolation. In a word, point us to the loveliest village that smiles upon a New-England landscape, and compare it with the filthiness and brutality of a Caffrarian Kraal, and we will tell you that our object is to render that Caffrarian Kraal as happy and gladsome as that New-England village. Point us to the spot, on the face of the earth, where liberty is best understood, and most perfectly enjoyed; where intellect shoots forth in its richest luxuriance, and where all the kindlier feelings of the heart are constantly seen in their most graceful exercise; and we tell you that our object is to render this whole earth, with all its

nations, and kindreds, and tongues, and people, as happy, nay, happier than that neighbourhood.

Wayland.

There are some sentences in this extract, on the desolations of Africa, not unlike some of Mr. Sheridan's, on the desolations of India.-Speech on the Begum charge.

—And beheld villages burned or depopulated, fields laid waste. -Wayland. Of plains unclothed, of vegetables burned up and extinguished, of villages depopulated and in ruins-Sheridan.

-What fearful visitation of heaven has laid these settlements

in ruins?-Wayland. What severe visitation of providence has dried up the fountain, and taken from the face of the earth every vestige of verdure?-Sheridan.

How small the Number of the Righteous!

AND it is for that I stop with you, my brethren, who are here assembled: I speak not any more of the rest of men; I look upon you as if you were alone on the earth. Behold here, then, the thought which occupies me, and which gives me the alarm. I suppose this is your last hour, and the end of the world; that the heavens are about to open over your heads, Jesus Christ to appear in his glory in the midst of this temple, and that you are now here assembled to wait him, as trembling criminals, on whom he is on the point of passing either sentence of grace, or a decree of eternal death. For it is in vain for you to flatter yourselves; you shall die as you are to-day; all those hopes of reformation which now amuse, shall amuse you until death; it is the experience of all ages. All that you shall then find new in you, shall be, perhaps, an account a little longer than that which you have this day to render; and by what you would be, if heaven came to judge you at this moment, you may almost decide what shall happen to you at going out of this life. Now, I ask you, and I ask you, struck with terror, not separating in this point my fate from yours, but placing myself in the same disposition in which I wish you may enter: I

ask you, then, if Jesus Christ should appear in this temple, in the midst of this assembly, the most august in the universe, to judge us, to make the terrible separation between the goats and the sheep.-Do you believe that the greater number of us who are here assembled should be placed on the right hand? Do you believe that the just and the unjust would be equal? Do you believe that there would be found even ten just persons, whom God could not find formerly in five cities? I ask you; you who know it, and I know it not myself. Thou alone, O my God! knowest thine own elect. But if we know not, we know at least that sinners do not belong to him. Now, who are the faithful here assembled? Titles and dignities ought not to be accounted as any thing. You shall be stripped of them before Jesus Christ: Who are they? Many sinners who will not become converted; still more who willingly would, but who put off their conversion; several others who never become converted except to relapse; in fine, a great number who believe that they stand in no need of conversion. Behold the party of the reprobate! Cut off these four kinds of sinners from this holy assembly, for they shall be cut off from it at the great day. Appear now, ye just; where are you? Remnants of Israel, pass to the right; good seed of Jesus Christ, separate yourselves from that straw destined to the fire. God! where are thy chosen? and what does there remain for thy portion?

My brethren, our ruin is almost certain, and we think not of it. Although, even in this terrible separation, which must take place one day, there should only be one sinner of this assembly on the side of the reprobate, and that a voice from heaven should come to assure us of it in this temple, without pointing him out, who of us would not fear to be the unhappy person? Who of us would not fall at once upon his conscience, to examine if his crimes had not merited this chastisement? Who of us, seized with dread, would not ask of Jesus Christ, like the blessed Apostles, Lord, is it I? And, if there were left some delay, who would not most sincerely strive to avert

this dreadful fate, by the tears and the groans sincere penitence ?.

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Are we wise, my dear hearers? Perhaps, amongst all those who hear me, there will not be found ten just persons; perhaps there will be found yet less. What know I? O my God! I dare not look with a fixed eye into the depths of thy judgments and of thy justice. Perhaps there will be found only one, and even this danger does not touch you, my dear hearer; and you believe yourself to be this sole saint in the great number which shall perish; you, who have less ground to believe it than any other ;-you, upon whom alone the sentence of death ought to fall, although it should fall but upon one alone of the sinners who hear me. Great God! how little know we of the terrors of thy law! The just of all ages have pined away with fear, in meditating on the severity of the depths of your judgments upon the fate of men :-Whilst to-day, after a life common, worldly, sensual, profane, each dies tranquil; and the minister of Jesus Christ, when called for, is obliged to feed the peace of the dying sinner,-is obliged to talk to him only of the infinite treasures of divine mercy, and to assist him so to speak to deceive himself. O God! What prepares, then, for the children of Adam the severity of thy justice?

What shall we conclude from these great truths? that one must despair of his salvation? God forbid ! It is the impious alone who, to calm himself in the midst of his disorders, endeavours here to conclude in secret, that all men shall perish like him. That ought not to be the fruit of this discourse, but to divest yourself of the error so universal, that one may do that which all others do, and that the reigning practice is a sure way ;-but to convince yourself that, to be saved, one must distinguish himself from others, be singular, live apart in the midst of the world, and not resemble the crowd.

Where is the Peace of Jesus Christ to be found?

NEVERTHELESs, who tastes of this blessed peace? Wars, troubles, frenzies, are they more rare since his birth? Are those empires and states which worship him, in consequence more peaceful? Does that pride which he came to destroy occasion less commotion and confusion among men? Alas! Seek among Christians that peace which ought to be their inheri tance, and where shall you find it? In cities? Pride sets every thing there in motion; every one wishes to soar above the rank of his ancestors: an individual, exalted by fortune, destroys the happiness of thousands, who walk in his steps, without being able to attain the same point of prosperity. In the circle of domestic walls? They conceal only distresses and cares: and the father of the family solely occupied with the advancement rather than the christian education of his offspring, leaves to them, for inheritance, his agitations and disquiets, which they, in their turn, shall one day transmit to their descendants. In the palaces of kings? But there it is that a lawless and boundless ambition gnaws and devours every heart; it is there that, under the specious mask of joy and tranquillity, the bitterest and the most violent passions are nourished; it is there that happiness apparently resides, and where pride makes the greatest number discontented and miserable. In the sanetuary? Alas! there surely ought to be found an asylum of peace; but ambition pervades even the holy place; the efforts there are more to raise themselves above their brethren, than to render themselves useful to them; the holy dignities of the church become, like those of the age, the reward of intrigue and caballing; the religious circumspection of the prince cannot put a stop to solicitations and private intrigues; we there see the same inveteracy in rival ships, the same sorrow in consequence of neglect, the same jealousy towards those who are preferred to us: a ministry is boldly canvassed for, which ought to be accepted with fear and trembling: they seat them