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, doubtless, holds a high and distinguished place among the nations, as to the rights its Inhabitants enjoy; and when we further consider her state as to, as being a land on which the  has long shined, and where its divine effulgence is enjoyed, and in a great degree appreciated—this distinction is still more remarkable. These high privileges, however, from the very circumstance of their undisturbed and abundant enjoyment, we are very apt not to value according to their immense importance; and there is nothing so much calculated to make us feel the importance of these privileges, than making a comparison of our circumstances with the state of those who have not enjoyed the benign influence of Christianity;- where gross darkness covers the people, and whose habitations are the abodes of horrid cruelty; having no hope, and without God in the world. On such a contrast we cannot fail to be made more sensible of the benefits we enjoy, and more grateful to the Great Disposer of events, for casting our lot in these highly favoured lands.