...multitude feasted on the flesh of their fellow-men, proving the truth of the Scripture declaration that " the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." An examination of the religious system of the natives of Fiji is attended with considerable difficulty....

...exaggeration, undoubtedly covers a painful degree of truth ; so incessantly are we reminded in ancient history that " the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." The Athenians could not but be deeply grieved at the ruin of their Asiatic kinsmen. When the poet Phrynichus...

...though it was a crowd of demons rather than human beings gathered together. Well may the prophet say that " the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." At the time of which I am speaking, an important religious ceremony was exciting great attention amongst...

...destructive influence. Nor were the Sandwich Islands an exception to the' Their cruel- inspired declaration, that the "dark places **• . of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." Like other heathen, the Hawaiians were strangers in great measure to the feelings of sympathy, tenderness,...

...and, that not succeeding, he knocked her down and jumped upon her. So true is the saying of the Bible that " the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." It is Christ only who teaches us to " do unto others as we would they should do unto us." QUARRELS,...

...compara-. tively pure, but the close researches of modern investigators have made it only too plain that the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of horrid cruelty. Whether we turn to the Red Indians of North America, the Negroes or Hottentots of Africa,...

...and that we were preventing them from dying by giving them food. Here we have another striking proof that " the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." Formerly the natives of the South Sea Islands were equally destitute of natural affection in their...

...prevalent amongst them. Humnn sacrifices were common, literally voryfyim? the Scriptures where it says that " The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty;" for the old historians tell us that one of their customs was to cause enormous wicker baskets to be...

...was comparatively pure, but the close researches of modern investigators have made it only too plain that the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations The Necessity of Revelation. 17 of horrid cruelty. Whether we turn to the Red Indians of North America,...

...Steamers, railroads, and telegraphs give us almost daily reports from China, India, and Africa. Now we know that the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty, and that millions of our fellow-creatures in all parts of the world are without God and without hope....