OUR MODEL. 495 as this country is the centre of trade, and the seat of learning, a very few years, in all probability, would settle Christianity in every country in the *world without miraculous assistance." If we, then, in .this highly favoured land, are blessed with the _volume of Divine Revelation, let us impart it to others with the greater alacrity, from the humiliating recollection that it was no merit of our own which brought the news of eternal life to an island of barbarians and idolaters. Freely we have received, freely let us give. The Sun of Righteousness, which first arose in the East, rejoicing as a giant to run his course, has gavelled iruthe great- ness of his strength, till, having made the circuit of the globe, having illuminated the western world, he is once again rising to shed the glories of his orient beams, where they first dawned. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet again repairs his drOoping head, And tricks his beams, and with mew-spangled oi Flames in the forehead of his morning sky."
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