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talent, carried through their examinations of the Christian Evidence and Theology with strictest care and most rigorous severity? Is it deemed not enough for them to be expert in all such questions, but that they should be adorned with the graces of polite and various knowledge? Should not, then, our earliest, perhaps strongest, solicitude be applied to Native Institutions, in which future preachers may receive a sound scholarship and a thorough Christian tuition? An untrained ministry, whatever its accidental good, is an instrument so easily perverted, that they, who have pondered ecclesiastical history and modern events, will regard it with more than a feeling of distrust. We have but to ask, What would be the Christianity of our own country, if no Ministry was equipped with its proper furniture? What must, still more, be the condition of churches, just gathered from the heathen, abandoned to pastors who need to be taught, and who are exposed to every incursion of error? "Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?"

Since the converted Pagan must soon observe, when he associates with many who bear the Christian name, that the name is no certain sign of a Christian subjection, he should be early made acquainted with the distinction between an outward profession and a spiritual state of religion. He may have thought the white man to be invariably the believer. Scarcely, however, is it possible that he has not heard of the pallid slaver and marauder. A casuistry, by no means very simple, must from this time be pursued by his teacher, showing the counterfeit and the reality. He

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must prove that there is no religious nationalism. He must explore, for his disciple, the motives of avarice and love of power in the human heart. It must be for him to tell of his country's crimes. He will be compelled to confess that licentious ports are to be found besides Matavai; and that Britain has been compelled to put forth some energy to evangelise the sailor, whose visit he must dread. While he gazes on the approaching ship, he trembles for the injury which its landing seamen may do to native faith and profession. He enters into explanations, which not more surprise his auditors than they grieve himself. But these must be frequent. Christianity is to be disabused. The True Church is to be delineated. Vital piety is to be contrasted with the vizard which insincerity assumes. The unrenewed man, whatever his complexion, is to be told that he cannot see the kingdom of God. False brethren are to be exposed. As this is the detection of a painful fact, which the Missionary will always fear as most detrimental to success, so should he, again and again, urge that men may seem to be religious, while they falsify religion,-that there may be many a plant in the sacred enclosure, which our Heavenly Father hath not planted,—that, from these deceivers, all the stedfast should "turn away." Thus will "they who are Christ's," be watchful as to themselves; and prepared for those incongruous mixtures with which the professing Church was always corrupted, and by which our holy religion has always been profaned.

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Set up that kingdom.

Though Christianity is the religion which least of all depends upon an external form, yet it must be exhibited in worship and discipline. It seeks its visible embodiment in a church. A church being a society, cannot be conducted without certain rules. The followers of our Lord must, with a view to this due order, examine the Scripture. It is not our codify the laws of His kingdom for them. content with the principle. Let it take an actual mark and subsistence. Be not satisfied with what is casual and expedient, the mere creation of circumstance. Teach the converted heathen how the least commandment is subservient to their well-being, and binding on their observance. Leave nothing unsettled. Fill their mind with sacred precedent. Urge them to the oeconomy of mutual support. Embue them with proper respect for office. Make all feel a common interest. Feed the Church of God. You may inculcate this regimen with every advantage. There is no fallacious use of terms to redeem. There are no prejudiced archaisms to explode. And when you take from them any further supervision, "the building" will be left "fitly framed together," its holy proportions defined, its just limits affixed; within whose outline the temple may expand, and every "lively stone" may command its position.

The advice may seem more than difficult,—but we cannot withhold it,-that the Missionary do employ an unremitting effort to raise in the native mind an independence of thinking. Let it have a work set it. It should have seeds sown in it, which may

unfold in all their growth, and ripen to all their fruit. There is danger of enfeebling it when all processes are wrought out for it, and it is shown the naked result. This is like teaching arithmetic, by presenting to the pupil difference, product, and quotient, already summed: or geometry, by precipitately adducing its amplest corollaries. The Scripture must be delivered into the hands of each neophyte to learn from it. His faculties, under divine influence, must be exercised upon its meaning and application. He must reason for himself. He must form his own ideas. Thus will he originate, as well as receive. Intellectual habit will be shaped, and its hardy vigour be confirmed. The mind, once lubricous and ductile, will now be braced. A fearless integrity will follow the consciousness of strength. Public sentiment will acquire its stronghold. Vindicated principle will stand henceforth unquestioned. A healthy condition of opinion, a sound character of thought, will supervene. And though the teachers of those tribes no more inspect them, they have laid a good foundation ; and still more, as wise master-builders, they have made a good commencement of the edifice, which only requires to be carried up to its top-stone. They have taught the labourers, whom they leave behind, how to build the rest.

These nations, or sections of nations, should be instructed in a policy of peace. We do not feel ourselves called on to state the rights of war, or its

legitimate pretexts: the Missionary should feel that no advice is more delicate. Our desire rather is to

destroy the causes of violence. As, then, nothing can be more ruinous than war to a nation,-nothing more destructive to religion,-let the Christian people of those countries employ their best influence to form friendly treaties with their neighbours, founded, where there is superabundant supply or different production, on an exchange of commodities. Industry will be promoted. Traffic will be induced. Capital will be created. The contention of rival interests will be easily negociated. And, though these are not the noblest bonds to unite the nations of the earth,though the law of love shall hereafter affect the people, as truly as the individual,—yet even these are strictly proper, and may be the means of bringing the most distant nations within the limits of the Christian Mercy.

These Mission-Churches will find that a systematic effort to extend the knowledge of the gospel beyond them, to nations Pagan still, conduces in the most successful manner to their own edification. We have known, from a long experience, that indolence and selfishness are prejudicial to enlargement and unity. Wherever communities have merely thought upon their own interests, they have failed of their expectation. Principle is uniform. We cannot be generous and benevolent in arbitrary selections. If we care for a soul, we shall care for every soul: if we seek the honour of Christ, we shall seek it always. When this zeal, then, is genuine, it is impartially diffusive. Let the enlightened heathen be forewarned of the danger of disregarding others. Cause them to understand that,

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