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 neer or tyranize over a stranger, yet the time it will come, when you will get no more but the breadth of your backs. Yet all of you must come to a level in the grave; and why should any of you be such lovers of amor patriæ, for they will not always keep you a-live upon the earth; and when vox Deau, or the voice of God, will call you to his bar, as before it, in one day, all of you must appear, neither your gold, silver, or tinsel, will be able to deliver you in the day of the Lord’s wrath. And if you do not use your riches on earth, you cannot get the use of them in heaven; a place where money will not buy. So I well may call some of yon crazy bodies, and well I may say some of you is destroyed for lack of knowledge, and some of you are not half wise; and I often have heard of the gouks of Borrowdale, and they may be compared to the cookoo, crying in the fields, for they are so brutish and ignorant. But before pale death annihilate and and close your eyes, you may pray to God for his be-nediction, that you may be converted from the dark-ness of your sins, to the knowledge of J XT for many of them are but as wild sheep running without a shep-herd, and will not he guided. And you think if you have plenty of money you are very well; but you may have plenty to-day and nothing to-morrow.And you have both meat and money in abundance. Yon can-not take the use of them, and you live on a diet in the comparison of a swine in a manner, and before any of you will supply a stranger if they be hungry, you will rather throw your meat on the ground, and bid a stranger begone.

Oh, are not you ordered in Scripture to let fraternal love continue; and you may say in you have done evil, do so no more. So you may turn your hearts and feed the hungry, for you have plenty to do it with, both bread, cheese, milk, butter, beef, mutton, venison, lamb, bacon, and potatoes. Yes, you will not give them to a stranger; and by doing so you are abusing the mercies of God, and to have sent you plenty; and while you are spending the one year’s pro-ductions he is providing you with another; and he is sus-taining you with all things that is necessary, fo the sup-port and comfort of human life, and bread is the stuff of