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tmmnMxig mih the wonis of cliarity, some tilings have 

 been said on the subject of Borneo wlitch^ from thoir 

 mcori'cctiiess and tlioir bitterness, are unworthy of a place 

 whore so inanj mattcn? are well discussed touching the 

 highest interests of maiikiiul- But ikm it is — it can only 

 be — by peoplo \p1io know what thet/ arc tulkintj ahaut ; 

 whercaSj on tUh subject, there is often an ignorance even 

 of cotuinou geogi'aphy, which leaJj^ fchom into many 

 absunlifcics,' — not to mention other ami vjtrious points of 

 information, without which not the most able orator is 

 entitled to stand iip and work upon the impulses of aa 

 unreflecting and confiding audience. 



There doubtless, in the councils of Providence, a 

 time ordained when wai*s shall cease m all the world ; 

 but many signs, not yot visible in the distance, must 

 berdd that dawning of universal peace : and no 

 peremptory " resolution " of a Peace Society— no Essays 

 on the unjusfeiijableness of armameuts, can precipitate 

 " the times and the seasons wMdi the Fatiikh hath put in 

 Im own power." Such a trip to the Eastern Archipekgo 

 aa was suggested by a certjiin Captain Aaron Smith, amid 

 '* great consternation on the platform," would make jilain 

 to any of these respectable theorists wliat unattainable 

 whiles arise out of their closet thoughts : how unfair 

 towards fellow-Chi'istians as einoero as themselves, but 

 only more practical^ are some speeches uttered by veil- 

 meaning enthusiasts, — who, ignorant of the vjxst world 

 and of its actual doings, have svorked themselves up vainly 



