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    If a spirit from some higher region were moved by curiosity to visit our planet , what , in the circuit of the globe , would most excite his wonder and dismay ? There is much in every inhabited clime which to a celestial mind N must appear " most strange , most pitiful ; * much which cannot but draw down tears such as angels weep . " Here , oppression and answering degradation ; there , lawlessness and violence ; here , abject superstition ; there , rebellion against the common Father . Tn one country , the heavenly visitant would behold how the natives of the soil are driven back into the wastes to

    perish , not by destitution merely , but by the vices and diseases imparted by tbeir usurping conquerors . In another , he would mourn to see how the imperishable mind is shrouded in thick darkness , and the immortal soul buried in sensual degradation . In a third , he would wonder at the dominion of an idolatry , whose rites , too impure to meet the eye of day , are lighted by the unholy fires of human sacrifice . But he would remember that these slaves , these sufferers , these agonized victims , have not yet been offered the liberty ,

    the security and the peace of the gospel . He would joyfully anticipate the hour when the announcement of these glad tidings should be the signal for universal emancipation . He would count the days till the influences of Christianity should protect the Indian in his forest glades , spiritualize the relations of savage society , exalt the apathy of the Hindoo into heroism , and tame the ferocity of the Tartar into gentleness . He would expect with confidence that wherever this influence was acknowledged , freedom and purity

    would prevail . He would expect to see the limbs set free from chains , and the mind only subjected to that mild yoke which was not imposed by human hands . He would suppose that common rights would be respected , universal gifts equally shared , and domestic relations sanctified by the benignant operation of a power adequate to these purposes , and ultimately destined to fulfil them ; and with this hope he would turn to Christian lands . What

    would he see there ? Much to disappoint , and much to encourage . Much external inconsistency , weakness , and depravity ; but also much internal purity and stren gth ; many abuses , but a secret power of rectification ; great cause for mourning , but more for hope . But if he should at length arrive at a region where all the degradation , all the cruelty , all the sensuality , all the impiety of the worst heathen lands prevail , notwithstanding the influences of Christianity , and under its pretended sanction , what could he think

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    habit it is to believe that God is in every pure and rioble emotion of the heart , who in fact believes that God and goodness are one , and how is the darkness of this world cheered , and every outward object enlivened by that most reviving contemplation 1 On this , then , let us fix our eyes ; here let our weariness find repose . The cause of the Creator , the Father , the Friend of all , is bound up with that of human virtue and improvement , and we believe that it is not " in height or depth , " or any created thing , to separate them .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/4/