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r duTs i the work-house, or some worse place of con ment, or, like their parent, to live at a d from God, and die without one hcaTcnly elevati hsffiag ever been excited in their souta, things 1 meditate upon, atid ha^itrn tu express grief, as now I do to tny beloved brethren, each one within his sphere may do hia part d the salvation of their souls, and the mitigation of their misery. Now, if you go unto thcfc over-laboured meo; and endeaTour to come into converse with tkcir spirits, tl>ey seem to hare no fipiriiswith whiek y«tt€8n come into converse. Their idea^ orftaB ofimsual cnjoymcuu, and of physieil ilb. Tbey have no knowledge of things unseen, no acquaiol- ance with their souls, no moremealii of tawari coiMcimce ; — nothing truly on which yoti can lay the foundation of Christ, and the apostles, aad the prophMs, Their souls have been allogethir obscured, and are visible only by flashes ofaniw and &crcc jollity. But their itpintual life, tkngk a1mo<itdeacl. is nt^ beyood recovery, as the Me- thodintH prove every day by their suocessful boun, and as I have oft proved in my own ptritnee. Kut to what low levels of tboQgbt and speech you have to descend, in order to wtkt v.] TH£ CUKflfi At to BODILY LAItOUR. 1069 Uiem agipTchend wh&t crude and cxtmvsbgant faD- cie* you are fain to use ia order to moTc tUcm. Nothing but pictures ol' bodJy misery make any impffiiiion^ nothing but the broade?«t delineatioiis of things preftent, and the most figurative descrip- tions of tilings to conte, havo any induence upon such unintcUcctual and unspintual mcu. Vou have to make a caricature c^ trutht rather than the true figure of it, which, ta one unediicat^, seems very ridiculous, ])ut it it only the greater ar^ufnent of the grossncss of the people. Aod here we cannot help wondering at the igno^ ranee of educated Chrialians, for contemning th« rwltt dificourfic which the Mctbodist ia fain to hold with them, whereof they make jokea for circiilatrou, and serve them u[>o« the stage for tlie public entertainment. But they never wiss that the Methodist is the wise man and the phi- losopher, and they themselves the setolistd; for the Methodist has found out the language proper to the creature, and is Vh^rking a passage into bis souU which a whole theatre full of these vain, senlitDcntal, lustful scoffem would brsiege for a eentury with their elegant dignified phrases, with- out making in all that century the Eligbtcst im- pression upon the gross and callous ignorance of the man whom labour hiUi thus debased, and