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This hymn, faithfully and correctly rendered back into English, 
will, we are assured, be found to read as follows : — 
1. " Hail, inhabitants of the mountains 
( Still covered with snow — 
With those of Ethiopia, 
India, and China ; 
Old rivers. 
Isles, and mainlands, * 
Your captives are 
Invited to freedom. . 
3 " Wo to the people 
Of strange gods, 
Who adore idols ; 
The perdition of nations, ' ' 
The Africans in darkness, 
The Asiatics in ignorance, 
The Mahometans, and 
The Romans returned to their wickedness. 
3. " How can we. 
Who are enlightened, 
Refuse men in darkness 
The light of life ! " 
The life ! the life ! 
Let us diffuse -it — 
That the world may hear the Messiah 
And be converted." 
We have endeavoured to find, particularly in the second verse, 
something corresponding to the original of the eminent divine, of 
whose celebrated hymn it is said to be a translation. But admitting 
it as having been intended as a mere imitation of the original, the 
blending of the Mahometans and the Romans together, as having 
returned to their wickedness, may, for aught we know, be highly 
poetic, but is certainly no imitation of the spirit which actuated the 
benevolent author of the original production, or of that charity, and 
forbearance, and brotherly love, which are ever warm in the heart 
of the truly_ pious, no matter to what sect or denomination he 
may belong. We honour the labours of the missionary, who, in 
singleness of heart, and with rational and pious zeal, goes forth to 
labour in the vineyard of his Divine Master, whether it be among 
the ignorant and^needy in his own country, or among the heathen 
in far distant isles ; for good may come from his labours in the one 
instance, if not in the other. 
