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is constantly in their eye. they po«sea the only clue to ilie confidence oCthe miserable, imd the only expedient fur their Tefomiation, !^o much seemed to be called for in eiictftinigemenl of all charitable exertions for the sake of a people whom we h<ive described a^^ so far fallen from the better estate of their fathers. And now, brethren, with respect to the indiri^ dual case beforeus, itie of Lbcmostgricvons kind. We have before us, authenticated by the most honourabla and most reverend names, relations suJUeient Ut make the heart sicken, of miserable dvuths by hun-ier, of ravaging diiti-a-He, in the train of horrid famine; of a shadowy feeble po* pulatioOf unfit for labour, if labour were to be 950 G0D'» CONTHOVKKSV WITH TUK LAHD. [, had, — fiionty for nursing; and when God's blci iog upon a promising harvest $-haU h&re alleviAted these distresses* of a cold winter to be passed ia nakedne.'-A ; for they hare stript tbcmsclvca of cloUiiiig to [trucure fiKxl, without having wh wltha) lo purchase more, and this not over a di»tri but over whole provinces of this land, affecting nearly one half of the kicgdom. If this be not a catl for Christian chanty, whejicc or when will that call occur? The five timusand for whom Lord created food were faint, and had the [>: fioeci of pa&fiiiig a liunj^ry night : but there was ruk of disease or death; yet to save them from craving pain of hunger, he gave forth hift creati word. When Peter and his brethren complain that they hud lukcn nothing the whole night, o Lord, unracaRured in hi^ bcunty, gave them su a draught of Mtt.^% n** was iniraeuIuuK. Yet hiuiftelf ^vas cuntent to rcmaiu an hungered fo days; and though braved to the experiment, would not create for himself a fiiogU morsel ; vrt ing to prove how much he could endure for I sake of otherd, though he could not suffer oth to endure- After the descent of the Holy Gbust, when the disciplefi began to multiply, and aooM to be in want becau«e of the prufession of Christ, thoee amonj; them of condition* rather than the poor »houId suffer, sold what they had, and, having poured out the price at ihc Apofitles' feet, committed themselves to Providence, and to the meanest fare. In the deartli which Agabos prophei^ied was to (M uut in Ihc reign of Claudlut C^sar, Paul himtielf besought the liberality of the richer chnrch^^ of Corinth and Macedonia for the poorer church of Jerusalem ; was at chargtA to IILI tiOD'« COKTaOVEKSY WITH TUB LAKD, 957 collect it, aDd to coavcy it with his own hand to itH ilei^timitkin. Th