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dom whose ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are 

 peace \" 



The decrees of heaven are mysterious to short-sighted mortals. 

 "Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters!" was 

 the exclamation of a pious monarch; and it must often arise in 

 the mind of every one who attentively reads the history of man- 

 kind, or marks events passing around him: the former begins with 

 the premature death of righteous Abel, a living pattern of faith 

 and piety, and the continuance of his murderer Cain, as a fugitive 

 and vagabond upon the face of the earth. In contemplating suc- 

 ceeding events through every period of time, true wisdom wiil 

 instruct us in this truth, " Man was not made to question, but 

 adore." 



When I was a youth, a ship from England, bound for Bengal, 

 unexpectedly arrived at Bombay, with a number of passengers 

 for Calcutta; among them was a venerable clergyman, eminent for 

 his talents and piety, to whom I had the pleasure of an early in- 

 troduction: he preached only once, after having been a fortnight 

 on the island, and taken pains to study the character of the Euro- 

 pean inhabitants. He selected his text from the solemn address 

 to the church of Ephesus on forgetting her first love; and applied 

 it to the false philosophy which then pervaded the different classes 

 of society: "Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen; 

 and repent, and do the first works: or else I will come unto thee 

 quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of its place, unless 

 thou repent!'' The discourse was such as became a faithful teacher, 

 replete with sound reasoning, great earnestness, and affectionate 



