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lculated^ for the kint^om. They are driven out of every re- .^ource, and depending upon charity; hanging " — '^ I I QBO OOO'S COlfTHOVllBSr WJTII THli LAND. iDifti Upon the charity chiefly of thi» city, removed from us by buadreda of mile^t, liy intervening ac&a,. with all die delays niuX ri>k& of navi^tLOpH Such a population, so reduced, would n€cd almost two crops to recruit them in strength, and set them up, I do not say in comfortable, but in decent pligfaL Therefore say not, my friends, it ta over, tile fields are ripening to harvest, the root* in the ground are ready: say not, it is over, while the people have nothing to go home to but naked walls, aod a cold floor of clay. And bow shall a winter's cold be endured, and how shall tender chddrcn be shcllcr^-d and clothed, and hungry mothers be sustained, and sickly men be strength^ ened, and hed*rideti age cured lor, and the other solaeemeots of our weary life provided I Smy not it id orer : the earth can leem much out of her bosom, thanks to God who made bcr fertile ; but she does not bring forth fabrics and stujfs ready made for use, nor the various utenrils which Ufe can ill brook the want tif Sen you not the people will fctll on like hungry and starving wolves, and coofiumc without remorse of the future, to briufE up the loss of past nourishment and strength! See yenot that they will part with what their little plots yield, to recover their thmgs from pawn, , and lo replace what cannot be done withuutf^H Thus iIh? store of provisiunR which Ibcir littla^^ means do yield, will be drained for every purpose, and the people ooee more, unless seen through their evil case by your tenderness, wUI be al their wila' end- Therefore, say not it is over, until those benevoleni n>en in our city, who, liko St. Paul, sen our charity to its destination, declare III.'^ CIOd'a COVTROVKHSr WITH THE LAND* 961 tliat tbey have caougti to meet tbo ueccssity, or Utac the necessity no longer exists. If there be any vrith whom the tender mercies of Christ avail not, any with ^boro the humtin- hei]irtcdtie»s ofnatarc availeth not, then one word to thcAe, drawn from another quarter, to which I wurmnt they will not be deaf. The e.vjl i% not ov€r; the deud nmy be buried, and the remem- brance of their suiTerinL;B depart from the living; the pole eniPLoiated population will gather come- liness and strength: but the di&casc, engendered by their privation?, may find its way across the line of poverty as it did nome years agu, atid then cornea the