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ting them far I IIT] ooD'ft ooirTicoTitR«r with thrlAnd. 914 away to starve, if the parish cannot maintain then* In g:ood tinies^ allowing tliein to drink and uhorc, and live m coDcubinoge ; to cn»iavo their immature children, to profane the Sabbath, to blaGjihc&ic the Lord, to educate their childreii in infidelity, aud to club to^th<:r for all inaimt>r of political disaflection : then in bad times turning them over to their unroclaimcd will5> and fciociauA pa?^ion», to revenge, and violent oct^, which can he re- preH^ed only by the nword. That i-s the way uf it ^ it begins ill the thirst of gold, and it ends in the mediation of steel; ^old tiie ^od, the aword the vtdistor, bell upon earth the consummatioo. Oh ! ohl it is ft system such as the world hath never aeen, and crietb to Heaven for vengeance: it is mammims sowing^-tiine ; his harv^t in h))e, and hiv jiibili:^e will come; and woe, woe, woe, when he putteth in the sickle. Aod for your money* lenders, or capitalists, who are the lords of tbi^ new creation of political economy, Uicy are bring- ing thing?* to the criHis of old Rome, when the people, who bore the burdens of the state in peace and war, were fain through the very weight of U8ur>% to secede to the Aveutine Mount, and tlircaten to dif^aolvc the community; when the common weal went plunging on through war and peace, and all civd broils, by the mediation of trt> Mnexof Uic {ieo[de, until at It^ugtli it landed in their triumvirates, who proscribed and slaughter- ed the bee^tand DOble»t blood of Rome. So are they hasting to work out of oar ancient Ctinsttan eystem of the state, all principle of obedience to* wards God, all obligation of man to men, ail dcnae of reciprocal duty, all the dignity and burd4in of t&ce, all Uie grace of life» and lo reduce every 900 OOd's COKTftOVSttST VJTn THE lamd, [. tiling ta the increase of gain, and the accumula- tion of weatUi, vrhicli from ilieComiimiisncmse. St. Stephens in the west, to tho Exchange in oast, 18 the great subject of coDTcrsation, and great object of pursuit; the great cause of dii patches and cxprcsu.'s from nation to nation, tl first cause of power, the^jreat eadof combioatio] and I may say, in answer to the question^ ' Whi is the chief end of man now becomel' The end of man is now become to glorify mammoj and to enjoy him how and ^hile we can. ThuA far have vre proceeded in our discourse upon the sine of ihh nation, for which the Lord bath eeot cleanne^ of leetb into many of our cities, and loss and dismay into all. Wc hav