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pccts of the Christian ! But all are not 

 Christians even among those who claim to be 

 so accounted, and whole nations are involved 

 in worse than Egyptian darkness, — the dark- 

 ness of the soul. Yet the day will come, in 

 which all nations shall be brought to the 

 knowledge of the truth, for to the Messiah is 

 promised the heathen for an inheritance, and 

 the uttermost parts of the earth for a posses- 

 sion. (Psalm ii. 8.) Such, then, is the exalt- 

 ation upon earth, to which the Divine decree 

 has. appointed the human race. Even now 

 the day is brightening ; Christianity can 

 number among its sincere professors men of 

 every clime, from the ice-bound north, to the 

 sunny isles of the southern seas ; the skin- 

 clad Greenlander, familiar with the waves ; 

 the hardy Russ and Sclavonian ; the Anglo, 

 the Frank, the Hindoo, the Negro, the red 

 rover of the American forest, and the fierce 

 Polynesian, once an idolater and a cannibal. 

 Surely Providence is bringing the great work 

 to pass, when wars, and cruelty, and oppression 

 shall cease, and " the knowledge of the Lord 

 shall cover the earth as the waters cover the 



TilE KEtlGIOUS TRACI SOCIEIX; IKSIIIUIED 1739. 



