nious travellers to visit distant and dangerous climes, in order " to contemplate "mutilated statues and defaced coins, "to collate manuscripts, and take the height of pyramids," with the zeal which carried the late martyr of humanity on a more noble pilgrimage, "to "search out infected hospitals, to ex plore the depth of dungeons, and to "take the gauge of human misery" in order to relieve it. Without the unworthy desire to rob this eminent philanthropist of his well earned palm, may we not be allowed to wish, that the exquisite eulogist of Howard had also instituted a comparison which would have opened so vast a field to his eloquent pen, between the adventurous expeditions of the conqueror, the circumnavigator, the discoverer, the naturalist with those of Paul, the martyr of the Gospel? Paul, who, renouncing ease and security, sacrificing fame fame and glory, encountered "weari"ness and painfulness, watching, hunger "and thirst, cold and nakedness; was "beaten with rods, frequent in prisons, "in deaths oft, was once stoned, thrice "suffered shipwreck, was a day and a "night in the deep *," went from shore to shore, and from city to city, knowing that bonds and imprisonment awaited him; and for what purpose? He, too, was a discoverer, and in one sense a naturalist. He explored not indeed the treasures of the mineral, nor the varieties of the vegetable world. His business was with man; his object the discovery of man's moral wants; his study, to apply a proportionate remedy; his work, to break up the barren ground of the human soil; his aim to promote the culture of the undisciplined heart; his end, the salvation of those for whom Christ died. He did not bring away one * 2 Corinthians, ch. xi. C 5 poor poor native to graft the vices of a polished country on the savage ignorance of his own; but he carried to the natives themselves the news, and the means of eternal life. He was also a conqueror; but he visited new regions, not to depopulate, but to enlighten them. He sought triumphs, but they were over sin and ignorance. He achieved conquests, but it was over the prince of darkness. He gained trophies, but they were not military banners, but rescued souls. He erected monuments, but they were to the glory of God. He did not carve his own name on the rocky shore, but he engraved that of his Lord, on the hearts of the people. While conflicting with want, and struggling with misery, he planted churches; while sinking under reproach and obloquy, he erected the standard of the Cross among barbarians, and (far more hopeless enterprise!) among philosophers; and, having escaped escaped with life from the most uncivilized nations, was reserved for martyrdom in the Imperial queen of cities! сб CHAP. XII. SAINT PAUL'S HEAVENLY MINDEDNESS. TRUE religion consists in the subjugation of the body to the soul, and of the soul to God. The apostle everywhere shews, that by our apostacy this order is destroyed, or rather inverted. At the same time he teaches, that though brought into this degraded state by our own perverseness, we are not hopelessly abandoned to it. He not only shews the possibility, but the mode of our restoration, and describes the happy condition of the restored, even in this world, by declaring, that to be spiritually-minded is life and peace. He knew that our faculties are neither good nor evil in themselves, but power |