neglected as they have been, if as some 
suppose, we are drawing nearer to a period 
in which knowledge, peace, and happiness 
will be perfected and extended beyond any 
thing that has yet been seen on earth. In 
-those glorious days not merely the empty 
name, but the benign Spirit of Christianity, 
may be expected to pervade every breast ; 
consequently that which has hitherto de- 
all, individuals as well as nations, 
from the days of Cain and Abel until now, 
the cannibal praca of man si di ss his 
. 
own sp 
way, must = di in its AR light, ud 
perpetually abhorred. "The sacred prophe- 
cies lead us to hope that there shall then be 
larger effusions of God's Holy Spirit, until 
at length men “ shall no more hurt nor de- 
stroy.” What a difference would it make if 
the genius, the invention, the zeal, which till 
now haye been employed by men in eruelly 
studying to render one another more ex- 
quisitely miserable, should be turned about, 
and with the thousand-fold energy which the 
excellence of such an end could not fail to 
inspire, were made to labour for the real 
happiness ofall!!! 
