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PREFACE.
which show what they might become, under
influences more favourable to their physical
and moral discipline than they are likely te
meet at present, if ever, in this country.
The question of their social and civil rela¬
tion may involve difficulties perplexing and
embarrassing to the Christian, but we know
that the truth, consolations and hopes of the
gospel are abundantly adequate to relieve the
wants and mitigate the miseries of every nu-
man apostate.
From the most ignorant and wretched of
mankind we are furnished with some of the
finest illustrations of the power of truth ana
grace. Those monuments of saving mercy,
while they in no degree detract from the value
of religious instruction or the means of ^race
at all times and in all classes of society, may
show the virtue of Christianity and the amazing
love of God in overcoming the most formida¬
ble difficulties in the way of salvation
The subject of the following brief memoh