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Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere;
Heav'n did a recompense as largely send;
He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear,

He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

No further seek his merits to disclose,

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God."

When with my intellectual eyes, I view the miseries of humanity, from the centre. to the circumference of the earth, my heart almost weeps blood! "I blush to find myself a man ;" and long to die, and leave this wretched world, teeming with villany and oppression, behind, The vanity and pride of aristocracy, I would silently and sorrowfully pity and despise, did it not produce war, cruelty and murder, and the chief miseries of the poor. How many this very moment, are bewailing in the shades of obscurity, the unrelenting ravages of despotism! Hungry orphans, weeping widows, violated virgins, and even the

hoary head of unresisting age, are now calling upon death to deliver them from a world of woe, produced not by nature, but man! They must worship those they despise, serve those they hate, kill those who never injured them, wretches as miserable as themselves, and at last, prematurely die in the field of battle, forgotten by all, and regretted by none; while aristocratical pride points the finger of scorn at misery produced by itself, and which it could, but would not alleviate.

God in the plenitude of his goodness, has scattered plenty, especially in Europe and Asia, but man has diffused famine and misery, over this portion of our terraqueous globe. The lands which were flowing with milk and honey, are now drenched with the tears of hunger and distress! The fields that waved with golden grain, are now sprinkled with human blood! The plains that were gay with flowers, and bright with verdure, are now the repositories of the bleached and whitened bones of wretched man! You who doubt the correctness of the melancholy picture I exhibit to your view, only cast the eyes of your mind for a moment on Africa, on the West Indies, on South America, on Russia, on Prussia, on Denmark, on Norway, on Spain, finally on England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the foreign settlements of the Dutch, the Swedes, the French, and the English, all which places I have personally visited! and you will be constrained to acknowledge, that man has unparadised this earth, and reduced it literally to a slaughter-house.

I have already adduced categorical proof from the Old Testament, of the abhorrence with which God views kings, because they infringe his rights in a compendious way, merely by putting themselves in his place, and exacting the adoration only due to his Sacred Majesty; we will now prove from the New Testament, that kings, and lords, and dukes, and earls, and their admirers,

both in America, as well as Europe, are enemies to the cross of Christ, and to the simplicity of his mission. Both his public and private conduct and discourses, from first to last, as well as his humble appear. ance in the world, all prove to a mathema. tical certainty, with what sovereign contempt God views the power, the pageantry, and pride of monarchy and aristocracy. The chief objects of his solicitude, were the poor and miserable ; and the primary objects of his animadversion, were the Jewish priesthood, as well as the Jewish aristocracy. I will just quote a few verses from the fouth chapter of Luke to illustrate my assertions.

“ And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias ; and when he Had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to

preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at lib. erty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down : and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill (whereon their city was built) that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.”

Mark, how the spirit of aristocracy opposed with unrelenting violence, the blessed Redeemer ! and methinks, was he again to appear in some courís, and some superb churches, he would again meet with similar treatment. · And in order to prove

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