that would be for good, fostering into pernicious luxuriance all that is evil. Men suppose that to unfold the truth and to establish the prin- ciples of the gospel, is to be considered as ex- clusively the duty of a certain class of men who have prepared themselves, or been selected for that service, whilst ordinary Christians are exempt or precluded from engaging in it. Now the truth really is that in this land of heathen darkness every Christian may be, nay more, if AND NE1LG KERRY HILLS. QQ he live in any way up to his profession, must be a missionary. When our blessed Lord bade his disciples regard themselves as the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a city set upon a hill, was it, can we suppose, to encourage in them any feelings of undue elation and confi- dence ? Must it not rather have been said to bring home to their hearts, a full sense of their responsibility by shewing them what they ought to be, and what was expected from them ? " ' In the same way we would now address all who profess and call themselves Christians, the minutest circumstances of whose conduct are liable to be noted and censured. Let the heathen see us living the life of faith : let them be taught to understand that the principle which