you fail, you will at least have the inestimable consolation that you have done what you could to undo the heavy burden, and to let the oppressed go free ;' and that the sins and calamities of your country, however pernicious in their consequences to yourselves or your children, were evils which you could not avert.'

"One word more; we rejoice to be able to report, that the number of associations, and especially of Ladies' associations, for the abolition of slavery, has been increasing of late. We trust that they will be largely multiplied both in the metropolis and in the country at large.

meanest has its appropriate weight in Parliament, imagine that he can discharge himself from the performance of this solemn duty; or should his application to Parliament fail of its effect—from adopting every other expedient in his power, such as abstinence from slave-grown sugar, the promotion of cultivation by free labour, &c. for wiping away this foul stain from the national character. And we would address this call to men of all political parties in the state. Those of every party who have sympathized with the victims of despotism in Spain, in Italy, and in Greece, have now an opportunity of combining to deliver 830,000 of their own fellow-subjects from a still more grievous despotism. The friends of the Government are bound to see its orders respected, and to repress that insubordinate and contumelious spirit in the colonists which would set them at nought. The members of the Opposition are bound by all their professed principles, to unite heart and hand in undoing the fetters of our own fellow-subjects. Above all (to avail our selves of the language of one of the ablest advocates of this cause)-above all, we would call on Christians of every name to come forward to lend their aid as one man to deliver their country from this great national iniquity to reform this cruel and impious system which shuts out the light of the Gospel; which violates, in the grossest manner, all its precepts; which keeps, in a cruel thraldom, the minds as well as bodies of its unfortunate victims; and which adds to its other enormities the fierceness of antichristian persecution. There would surely be an inconsistency in the charitable efforts now making to convert our fellowcreatures in the most distant regions of the globe, while we suffer our fellowsubjects to be kept in pagan darkness, and the vilest moral degradation, not by choice but by compulsion, through a domestic tyranny, which our own power, within our own territories, alone upholds.' To all then we would say, in conclusion," It would be ingratitude in this conin the words of the same eloquent writer, nexion to withhold our warm acknowCome forward with your petitions. ledgments of the great services which Instruct your representatives. Give or have been rendered to our common cause, withhold your suffrages for the next Par- since we last met, by the able, zealous, liament, and use your personal influence indefatigable, and successful efforts of Mr. throughout the country; all in such a Cropper of Liverpool. manner as may best promote the success of this great and sacred cause. If you succeed, you will give a new triumph to the British Constitution. You will exalt the glory of your country, in that best point, her moral elevation, and recommend her to the favour of Heaven.'

If

"The present meeting, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, has, we are also happy to say, been anticipated in several places, by the impulse of that popular feeling which furnishes the best pledge of our ult mate success. In this important line of service Norfolk has taken the lead, and has been followed by the city of Norwich, by Birmingham, by Hull, by Beverley, by Derby, and by Ipswich; as it had been preceded, though not for the express purpose of petitioning, by Edinburgh. In all these places our cause has been advocated with remarkable power and effect, and has happily united the general suffrage. The Corporation of the City of London has signalized itself by its zeal in the same cause, and we are anxious to record the high sense we entertain of the advantage which has accrued from the nearly unanimous and energetic declaration of the chief authorities of the first commercial city in the world, against the principle of colonial monopoly, and in favour of the claims of injured and outraged humanity. The influence of their high example will, we trust, induce the mercantile and manufacturing classes, throughout the kingdom, to come forward to vindicate the commercial character of this country from the discredit, and its commercial interests from the injury, caused by the prolongation of the existing colonial evils.

"These various indications of the general sympathy in our labours are strong incentives to perseverance. And we must all feel it as not among the least cheering and encouraging circumstances, which we are called to acknowledge with gratitude to the Giver of all good, that we

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TO THE

CHRISTIAN OBSERVER,

VOLUME THE TWENTY-FIFTH,

FOR 1825.

RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

MANKIND RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR things which were told them by the

And, first, it is a very important advance towards a correct understanding in religion, when the mind is honestly disposed for serious investigation. The Bereans "searched the Scriptures daily whether the CHRIST. OBSERV. APP.