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A GEN ERR I. VIEW QE WHAT ARE REGARDED &C, 
Here then we behold a widely extended nation of immortal beings 
manifestly showing- that the true God “ is not in all their thoughts,* 5 
The living- God, to whom they owe all they possess, and in whom 
they “ live, and move, and have their being,” is to their minds as if 
he had no existence; and never is he spontaneously inquired after by 
any individual of the vast population of this so called “ celestial em* 
• it 
pire. 
These facts are deeply humbling to the foolish pride of man : but 
they should also excite in all who know the truth an irrepressible 
zeal to promote the speedy diffusion over this gloomily dark land of 
** the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Je¬ 
sus Christ.” 
Amoy , China; \ Alexander Stronach. 
April 1 5th. 1848. / 
