ENGLAND'S BEST HOPE. 111 father !' The severest evil and this perhaps is the most severe - is support- able, when not aggravated by the con- sciousness that we have contributed to bring it upon ourselves. Though it will not pluck the sting from his guilt, it will render the poignancy ofyour own anguish more tolerable. But let us indulge higher hopes and brighter prospects for our country. We refer to those hopes with which the first chapter of this little work concluded, namely, the rich provision which God has put into our hands for accomplishing his great designs in our favour. The hope there expressed, and the means humbly suggested for accomplishing it, was the re-reformationof the British cha- racter. We have here, feebly indeed, but honestly, shown what obviously ap-- pears to be the best security, the most effectual barrier, against the vices and contamination of our prolonged con- tinental intercourse. Religious educa- tion, with God's blessing upon it, which
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