192 CONCLUSION. 



while the convenience of man is promoted by 

 the employment, in useful manufactures, of 

 kinds and parts of fish which are not suitable 

 for food. The contemplative mind may see in 

 all this man's obligations to the Creator and 

 Preserver of the universe. Alas, that we should 

 have rebelled against so much goodness ! 

 Alas, that any should be inattentive to the 

 message of reconciliation ! Is the reader one 

 who has hitherto preferred distance from God 

 to that communion with him which is to be 

 enjoyed through the mediation of his Son? 

 Let him hearken to the invitations of mercy, 

 and in the spirit of the repentant prodigal say, 

 " I will arise and go to my father." Let him 

 avail himself without delay of that benign 

 arrangement, by which the renewing influences 

 of the Holy Ghost are imparted to every 

 believer, and guilty outcasts are accepted, 

 through the righteousness of our Lord and 

 Saviour, in a way consistent with the integrity 

 of the Divine character and the supremacy of 

 the Divine law. 





RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY : INSTITUTED 1799. 



