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and be saved, all ye ends of the earlh!" O! what an ample field 

 is here opened for holy meditation and solemn musing! for pious 

 resolves and holy energies, which are not confined to the brahmi- 

 nical groves, nor the cloisters of a monastery ; but are to be found 

 in the heart of every real Christian, who knows that his body is 

 the temple of the Holy Spirit; and that, assisted by divine grace, 

 it is in his power, from that indwelling principle, to perform the 

 relative duties of society, to enjoy the innocent pleasures of life, 

 and at the same time to find himself, at solemn seasons, exalted 

 above this fading scene, in celestial intercourse with his Creator, 

 Redeemer, and Sanclifier! 



Under such a view, shall it any longer be said that the Hin- 

 doos, who are in a state of spiritual darkness, and practise crimes 

 of the most atrocious nature, do not need the blessings of Christi- 

 anity? or that their moral and religious codes, even if accompanied 

 by their enjoined virtues, place them above those nations to whom 

 the apostles were immediately sent? Are the inactive brahmins, 

 the idle yogees, the oppressive duans, and cruel zemindars, supe- 

 rior to the active minister of the Ethiopian queen, to whom an 

 evangelist was commissioned to explain the prophecies, and to 

 baptize in the name of that Saviour whom he wished to know and 

 love? Are they coequal with Cornelius of Caesarea, whose prayers 

 and alms ascended as a memorial before God; whose household 

 was composed of good men, and on whom devout soldiers waited 

 continually? In the opinion of modern unbelievers, such a cha- 

 racter needed no conversion; he stood firm on a rock, surrounded 

 by his virtues. But we must not be governed by man's opinion, 

 the Almighty beheld the Roman centurion in a different light, and 



