therefore called upon my religious friends individually, and represented in the most lively colours, the miserable situation of this good woman. Some gave two dollars, some one, and some fifty cents. Among the rest, I called upon a respectable local preacher, of a pious denomination, worth about 150,000 dollars, whose name, or even place of abode, charity forbids me to particularize. I told him my lamentable errand, and humbly entreated only twentyfive cents ; but alas! I entreated in vain !! This unhappy incident never recurs to my mind, without producing the most painful sensations. Nothing but the want of common humanity, precluded this rich man from acting more like a Christian. This must be the case, for he could not harbour a doubt of my representation, as he was well acquainted with my moral character. This is only a specimen of what I have experienced of the charity, of what is called the

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mane barbarian more estimable and amiable in the sight of heaven, than a hard hearted and inhuman preacher of the gospel? without any manner of doubt. If any will affirm, that although there may be, and no doubt are, many amiable qualities observable in the characters and conduct of some heathens, yet without a literal knowledge of, and belief in the Saviour's name, there can be no salvation. In answer to which I would ask, is not the experience of the love of God in the heart, without the historical account of the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ, better than a knowledge of the history is, without this experimental feeling? Most assuredly it is. If the pagan world feels the direful effects of the fall of Adam, although they never heard of such a person, may they not, on the same principle, feel the blessed effects of our Saviour's obedience unto death, although they never heard the history thereof? If an ideot, who knows nothing of the history of our blessed Lord, is capable of participating the merits of his death, why may not a virtuous heathen be allowed the same privilege? Yet there are Christians, so called, who believe, and boldly assert, that they will all be damned, both good and bad, for not believing the historical account of our blessed Redeemer; yet they never had an opportunity of hearing any such account, at least with the outward ear; although, no doubt with me, many of them near in their hearts, and obey in their lives, the still small voice of the spirit of Christ.

St. Peter, who was inclined to believe, as millions of professing Christians now do, that God was partial to the Jews, in preference to all other nations, whom he considered as rejected by him. But God, in order to prove his impartiality as clear as a ray of light, convinced this good man, by a miraculous manifestation, that such sentiments were not agreeably to truth. As the narrative of Cornelius is so much to the point, and such positive proof of the force of my arguments, I will humbly take the liberty to introduce it in this place.

6. There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the Band called the Italian Band, a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway: he saw in a vision evidently, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming into him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter; he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea-side:'he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. And when the ange! which

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away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him. And the morrow after they entered into Cesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. And as Peter was coming in Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. And as he talked with him he went in, and found many that were come together. And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask, therefore, for what intent ye have sent for me? And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright