occurring at Camp- Meetings. 117 



this question to the ministers of the gospel, and the 

 Master of congregations whom they serve. 



The desire of exercised persons, that " all others 

 should be in the same way with themselves," is per- 

 fectly natural. We find the same principle influencing 

 all classes of society, and it was evinced by our mother 

 Eve : when she had eaten of the fruit of knowledge, 

 she desired Adam to partake with her, that he might 

 become a co-partner in sensation, for " it was pleasant 

 to her eyes." But when the voice of justice sounded 

 in their ears, " Adam, where art thou?" we find the 

 moral faculty was excited; they were ashamed; and, 

 conscious of guilt, had hidden themselves among the 

 trees of the garden. 



The desire of the truly pious man, that others should 

 participate in the mercies of redemption, is one of the 

 strongest emotions of his soul: it is of heavenly origin, 

 and in nature divine. We find that our Saviour 

 " wept" over Jerusalem, and lamented her apostacy, 

 in the most tender strains of compassion; St. Paul 

 was almost willing to become accursed for his kinsmen 

 after die flesh ; Dives begged and beseeched father 

 Abraham to send one from the dead, to warn his breth- 

 ren of his misery and their approaching ruin ; and love 

 to the brethren is a cardinal point of the christian's 

 faith ; nay more, the joys of heaven will not be com- 

 plete until " the congregation of the Saints" is accom- 

 plished. 



