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medy can have any effect which doth not at once address itself to the eril of the sensual re* li^ott which cultiratca and sanctifies the sense, and oppressetb the spirit; but those remedies of education and policy whicb they progiose g^ upoa the principle that there is no evil id aaensual reli-* gioD, but rather a i^ood, fornsmuch as they desire to promote it to some new point of adv^nta^ and dignity. The riMnedy is^ to attack the eril at Dnee, and to contend with it face to face, and drive it out. Suffer not the idolatry to be ; for so lonf^ as it IB, and where it is, God will send a blij;ht and barrenness of all grace and goodness; and not to them only, but to all who patronize it. Sillier it not la l>e : fighl agnin^t il, hk more ter- I23G |fli:tAMD's £VIL C<>N0lT3OW. [DH^ rible than the |iestileDce or famine, or the Rwi^rd of the invHtltT ; l>erause it is thai which brrnirflh all these iaatnimcats and cjcecutionera of the Lord's anger upon a people* Give it do toleration' in your spirit: do, oodc; unless you would tole- rate Satan'ft hoM. whose standard is ido)atr>'. Tolerate it, indee<I, if you woald tolerate igno- rance, darkness, brutality. iii&ufTectiou, ciFil war; which if yoti hate and Linder, then alio hate and hinder idolatry and Gnperstidon. But how fight against it ? Not with sword nor flret:i No, but with that which is proper to it»' dastniction and abolition. Sword will notslay it/ nor torture in»ke an cud of iu I wmdd not re- I taliate upon the idolaters their treatment of our fathers. Neither do I exhort to or recommend pains and penaltiei^ as an infitmniGniof the de- atmction of fiupcrstition. I will go as far ba the liberals m this kind of toletatJon, Neverthelecfl, I would dejHtroy it, utterly destroy it^ by thai which ift effectuat to destroy it. And if I were a<^ statesman, or representative uf this land, 1 would' meditate by night and by day, I would utter what- ever seemed to me most likely to root it out Now, of the^o means which have been found eifectual to the dcAtructinn of thift abomination, the first is the preaching of the word, for the end of wbieh our father? planted a Protesunt Church in Ireland, which our political reformers regard witli evil ej^o, nowwhen itsftervicesaremaiDlycalled for. Let the miniaters of that church, who know their callin; of ftbepherilji, and are not waUeff in sheep*f« clollr iug, be Mtirrt:d up to discliargi; it. not only foi their scanty flocks, but for the population ofthoii bounds, testifying in all ways and in all ph against the idol-shepherds