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I) their own; brokon in fortunes, de-pressed in sirtrit, and emaciated in body; uithout em- ptoymenCp without any variation of their tniMry from morning unto latest evening, stretching thcmselvcA liimugh the night upon the cold earth, with fevered and dying wives and children for their comrades; infirmity their portion; ibt bitter cup of death their only solaeement; who can endure the thought? Metbinks 1 see the sea- port towns into which they have crowded tnm their desolate homes, filled with famislicd people, lending all day lon^ their children about IVora place uj place, not having where lo hide ihetr head. They watt from meal to meal, having do- tbinif to divert their thou^ht^i from their misery: they crowd aroui^d the bouse where their scanty pittance is doled forth ; Ibey see their stofie faaC iuling before the accumulating objects: lb IlIJ OOD'S CO!tfTftOV£H5V UUU lll£ LAKl>. 969 ^wander lo th« sumroil^ find look out over the B ocean* tor the sail of some provision-ebip. Thus, Bfrom day to day» from week to week, from month ^vto month, tbe peo)>Ie are made fiimiliftr wiih r Biisery. Methinks I hear tlie i^oice of tlieir groaa* iigi »ceDd into the ear» of the Lord tiod of Sab- Hlnoth, who lookcth down from his holy hi)l upon "the orphan and those who have no helper. He be- boldctJi the lAnd» and it i» full of picoly in one part ; be bcholdctb it ia aootber* and it ia perish' ing for want : in one plac«! it cuinplains becnute of cheapness; in atiuthtT, famint? iiHth a glut of vTctiros. Then he riseth in his wrath, to vex it in hii hot di«p]efuure, and to avenge the wrongfr of the poor nod the dcdtitute. The spirits, as ttiey arnvc hctore him. cut oft by misery —ha ply hia own Ksinta^tell him of their endurance, and ask ■Ihow long he will hold his hand. That upliltcid band, "if aughi will avail to stay ; that anger, if au^bt will arail to avert; it will be thereadioesg with which Inttbe people of condition came forth &o coon an the; kiMW the extent of the diatress, and liatcncd to the cry of the di^titutc, and largely contributed to their relief. But the evil 15 not over: the people are lirokeu in their circtimAtanre»; their little savings expended, their clothing parted with, their cattle slanghtored for food, their implements of house-keeping and husbandry pawned, their LA^very^ift exhausted, the very musclea of their ■Strength, and the very marrow of their bones con- fiom^d within tliem, in hundreds of thousands for pk single county ; in millions, it i» ca