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established. In effecting this, another end would also be 
gained, viz., the removal of all difficulty from a state endow¬ 
ment; the great obstacle to which, at present, is, the 
multiplicity of sects, and the want of it will be the certain 
increase of infidelity, now lamentably apparent in the colonies. 
It would give them the character of Christian states, which 
at present they have not, and ensure the divine blessing, 
which we cannot expect so long as (heathen-like) we nationally 
deny God ! 
Could but the present Bishop of New Zealand entertain 
similar sentiments to those here expressed, there is no one 
whose learning, zeal, self-devotion, and energy, would better 
fit him for such a noble undertaking; and I feel firmly per¬ 
suaded the time is rapidly approaching, when these views will 
not be thought chimerical, but the only sound ones which will 
test of Scripture, and which, therefore, must finally 
bear the 
prevail. 
11E WI1AEE FEN I, A HOUSE. 
