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 good, or it may be bad; much will depend on right regulation and direction."

"Can anything stronger than this half-reluctant but most decided testimony to the truths we are advocating, be conceived? They who view the event with trembling, nevertheless acknowledge, that "the fountains of the great deep have been broken up!"—who can doubt, that it has been effected by a similar divine interference to that which was exerted in the days of Noah?—It was, we may also add, exactly in the spirit of these remarks, that the Bishop of London, in his famous Charge, some years since warned his clergy, that if they wish, in these days of rapidly increasing knowledge, to retain the consideration they enjoyed in former times, they must allow the current, since it cannot be resisted, to carry them along with it, and be careful, by their increased attainments, still to keep in advance of the general knowledge of the age. This is excellent advice: but it will not be sufficient, unless the clergy allow the improvements to be extended to their Articles and Liturgy. The advancing intelligence of the age must renovate the doctrines they preach as well as embellish their mode of preaching them: must permit the energies which are now operating from heaven for the enlightening of the human mind, to enlighten it in the most important points of all: and then they will retain their ancient consideration unimpaired, and will be respected by all as the heaven-commissioned ministers of heaven-born truths. Thus only will they be qualified "to ride that whirlwind, and direct the storm."

Here occur some interesting remarks, which for want of room I am compelled to omit, in regard to the distribution of the Word of the Lord, among all the nations of the earth.—This, and other benevolent enterprises, which so peculiarly characterize the present age, are regarded by many as indications that a new and more perfect dispensation is about to commence. The error of such persons consists in not seeing that the sign is an effect, and hence that that new dispensaiion has already commenced.

I have only room in this connection for the author's closing remarks in reference to the external evidences of the Last Judgment. "Allow me then, ye candid and reflecting, to request your serious attention to the instances which have been adduced,