Christ. Their feeble substitutes, their small social meetings, without the "ministers of grace," soon die away. Their Sabbaths are Pagan: their children grow up in ignorance, in unbelief, and in vice. Their land, which smiles around them, like the garden of God, presents an unbroken scene of spiritual desolation. In the course of one or two generations, the knowledge of God is almost obliterated; the name of Jesus is a foreign sound; his salvation an occult science: and while plenty crowns their board, and health invigorates their bodies, the bread of life blesses not their table, and moral pestilence is sweeping their souls into death. All this from the idolatry of "our" church. They might have had Christ at the expense of sect. They preferred sect, and they are without Christ. How far the mischief shall proceed, God only can tell. It is enough to fill our hearts with grief, and to shake them with terrour, that from the combination of this with other causes, we have already a population of SOME MILLIONS of our own colour, flesh and blood, nearly as destitute of evangelical mercies as the savage who yells on the banks of the Missouri.*

* See, on this subject, an interesting tract by the Rev. Dr. LYMAN BEECHER, "On the importance of assisting young men of parts and talents in obtaining an education for the gospel ministry." pp. 20.

The ingenious and inquisitive authour has calculated, from various data, that out of the eight millions of souls which compose the popu

When sectarian jealousy and pride lead professing Christians thus to sacrifice themselves and their children, it would be vain to look for their concurrence in generous efforts for the good of others.

How much yet remains to be done before "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea;" how much before it fill the corners of every Christian country, it would be superfluous to show. "Darkness covers the earth; and thick darkness the people." Millions after millions go down to the grave unacquainted with the "grace which bringeth salvation;" uncheered by the hope which conquers death. If the world receive the knowledge of "the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he

lation of the United States, five millions are either utterly without the stated ordinances of the gospel, or are consigned to the most illiterate ministrations. Supposing his calculations to exceed the fact, as it is difficult to be accurate upon so great a scale; yet, with every reduction which fastidiousness itself can require, the result is sufficient to alarm, to appal, and almost to overwhelm, a Christian who compares the ratio of our increasing population, with the probable supply of the means of grace.

Several causes have no doubt concurred in producing our deplorable state; but that sectarian jealousies bave not withheld their full amount of influence, seems not to admit of a question. The churches have been in a profound sleep, as to this momentous concern. The good God awaken them with his own voice; for every other is wasted on the wind.

hath sent," they must owe the blessing to those who already enjoy the "words of eternal life."If the banner of the cross ever wave triumphantly over the last battlements of idolatry, it must be planted by hands which have been washed in the blood of the cross.-If the doctrines of kindness and peace shall humanize the habitations of cruelty, and subdue the sons of blood, they must flow from the lips of those who have "tasted that the Lord is gracious." Here is a field large enough for their labours; an object worthy of their zeal. Here are conquests to be atchieved infinitely more splendid than any which signalize the heroes of the sword; and a "recompense of reward" as far above their brightest honours, as the "crown of glory which fadeth not away," is better than the breath of a "man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass." The enterprise is stupendous; the thought is awful. Yet awful and stupendous as they are, the thought is to be embodied in fact, the enterprise to be a matter of history. So saith the word of our God. And that Christians, were they hearty in the cause; half as hearty as they are in getting the "mammon of unrighteousness," are able to accomplish that word, does not permit a doubt. But for its accomplishment there must be a union of counsels, of confidence, and of strength,

unknown in the church since the days of apostolick harmony. To such an union nothing can be more hostile than the spirit of sect. We do hail indeed, with an exultation not unworthy, we hope, of bosoms which have been touched by celestial fire, the auspicious dawnings of such a day of love. The truly gracious efforts in which the land of our fathers, the island of Great Britain, has taken the lead; and keeps, and seems destined to keep, the pre-eminence, encourage us to anticipate things which many prophets and wise men have desired to see, and have not seen them. Eternal blessings on those children of the truth who have excited what may one day prove "a general movement of the church upon earth," in order to "speak peace to the heathen!"-Upon those benefactors of the nations, who have poured their offerings into the treasury of God, and have joined their hands with their opulence in the glorious work of sending the Bible, which teaches sinners what they "must do to be saved," to "all peoples, and kindreds, and nations, and tongues"-Upon those vigilant sons and daughters of charity, who have gone out into the "highways and hedges" of the country-into the "streets and lanes" of the city, "to seek," like their adorable Redeemer, "and to save that which was lost;" to bring the Sabbath, with its mercies,

into the cabins of the poor, and the houses of the profane; andto train up, by labours worthy of the Lord's day, for "glory, honour, and immortality," those wretched outcasts who were candidates for infamy in this world, and for perdition in the next!

Whose heart does not swell with transport? Whose lips do not pour forth benedictions? Who that names the name of Christ can refuse his "God speed?" But what do these things involve, and how have they been accomplished? See it, O disciple of Jesus, and rejoice!—They involve, they have been accomplished by, the prevalence

the CHRISTIAN over the SECTARIAN! No such thing was attempted by modern believers; no such honours encircled their brow, till the "Sun of righteousness, arising upon them with healing in his wings," melted their ices, warmed their soil, and made their sectarian "wilderness to blossom as the rose."

Stronger proof of the baleful and blasting influence of sect on the "kingdom of God," no man can ask, than the fact, now notorious to the whole world, that what has been thus effected for the one, has been done at the expense of the other. If he wishes for confirmation, let him cast his eyes around. Let him see in the caution, the management, the address, which Christians of a