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The value of theS criptures, aud the duty of perusing them, appear from many considerations. We may estimate the character and tendency of divine revelation, by contrasting the condition of countries where its true light shineth, with that of other countries to which its beams have not extended. The heathen world is large enough sui-ely for experimental proof. In many of its territories the richest blessings of sun and soil are enjoyed in abundance, and there, external nature presents itself in its stateliest and loveliest forms; but where are the beauties of holiness, where the fruits and flowere of moral culture? Or, if these are disparaged in comparison with intellectual stature and idolized genius, where are the distinguished philosophers and orators, historians aud poets of pagan communities? A mid numberless diversities of condition, they seem to have only this in common to explain their wretchedness, that they want those oracles of God which have been committed unto us; and the conclusions appear fairly deducible, that it is in the absence of theS criptures the people are there destroyed for lack of knowledge that spiritual ignorance, in addition to its proper maladies, has there entailed mental and civil prostration and that scoifers in our native land owe to the emancipating influence of God sword that very freedom of thinking which, with ungi-ateful and impious hand, they wield for the overthrow of its doctrines and institutions. The cases of Greece andR ome, so famous in the annals of history for literary attainments and heroic exploits, may be urged as evidence to the contrary. But all their civilization left their religion unimproved. Eminence was restricted to a proficient few, while the millions were hopelessly consigned to abominable idolatries. Philosophers themselves entertained the most unworthy and confused conceptions of mans relation to
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