tain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. xi. 6. 9).

CONCLUSION.

Having seen that our duty to man consists in love, and that this love is to extend itself to all that partake of the same nature with ourselves; it becomes us to examine ourselves to see whether we possess this love or not. How few of us have a real and fervent affection for such as partake of this nature. How little is our resentment of the common calamities of the world, whether in reference to their eternal or temporal concernments. How few regret, or take it deeply to heart, that men are so generally without God in the world, and without Christ; that the knowledge is so imperfect among men of their own original, and of the end of their being; of Him who made them, and what they were made for! That the knowledge of a Redeemer is yet so little among men. Who regrets or lays it to heart, that the world is so filled with violence, barbarism, and blood, that a deluge and inundation of misery is with sin spread over the world, and transmitted and propagated from age to age, and from generation to generation? When we hear of wars and devastations, and garments rolled in blood

here and there, how few are they who concern themselves for it, as long as they are quiet and at peace in their own habitations! Or how cold and faint are our supplications on the behalf of men so generally considered, though we are expressly directed by that exhortation of the Apostle to make prayer and supplication for all men (1. Tim. ii. 1). How little comprehensive are our spirits to take in the common concerns of the world with seriousness as the case requires. How little do we imitate the blessed God in this; for a general philanthropy, or kindness to men, is even a most god-like quality, and that whence he hath represented Himself as a pattern to us. God says now that He loveth mercy more than sacrifice, and regards the performance of our duty to our neighbour as the great proof of godliness here, and the signs of our acceptance hereafter, for it is written "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,

and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not" (Isa. lviii. 67. 10. 11.)

Dalton.

EDWARD GRAHAM,
LABOURER.

ESSAY III.

THE subject which ought at all times to claim man's special attention in his preparation for another world, and, through his Saviour's atonement, to secure his inheritance thereto, is, next to his duty to God, man's duty towards his neighbour. On the due observance of the one depends, in a great measure, the right fulfilment of the other. A man who conscientiously performs his duty to God, generally manifests this diligence in the exercise of it also towards his fellow-creatures; on the contrary, he who fails in the proper discharge of this, his first responsibility, often shrinks back in the performance of his second. The application of our lives to the glory of God, and the good of our neighbour, is the evidence and illustration of a noble and Christian spirit which actuates us; the manifestation of a broken and a contrite heart; but, specially, it is the vital proof of never-fading gratitude to that Omnipotent Being, whose boundless love to our vile human

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