there! Yet so it is. Man, exercising his reason and

conscience in the path of love and duty which his Creator

points out, is God's noblest work; but man, left to the

freedom of his own fallen will, sinks morally lower than

the beasts that perish. Well may every Christian wish

and pray that the name and the gospel of the blessed

Jesus may be sent speedily to the dark places of the

earth; for you may read of, and talk about, but you

cannot conceive

the fiendish wickedness and cruelty which