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was fouadiA ikm £ and that before the Parliamentary OoouttiieiAt their witncsiWfl did not fear tn declare their cod- Tiction and their purp^ise to be the tctmnigof.4h|B people from darkaefr^ to light. They have, therfr fore, become tite ^eat but of the liberal party; and it ia their capital object to drive them to the wall. They arc maii^ntd, they arc misrepre- sented ; and a« I stood forth fur tl»e Coaluieuitd Society last year, bearing the reproach or the Christian worid in respect of mbsjoiu, so do I BOW stand forth for thia Society, bearing the re- proach of Christ, in respect of Irish educ^ou. It i8 honourable for them to have that reproach to bcar< 1 feci it to be honourable to havetli^ catue of the reproached to advocate* seeing if i« for toy Lord's cattse they are reproached. Acd DOW it is to be determined, by this year » tran- sactions, whether you will fiupport tbcac men that have stood, and are standing, in the breiialL; wbtrtlier there be still living amoogHt ua cuou^ of principle, enough of Protestant principle^: maintain thi^ truly Protestant Society; orfunbe* titer even in the church these political wrangliilfft ' about emancipation have undemuned ao the foun* ^dalions of all that is peculiar to the faith uf oor I churches, as to have made iiiditference the rally* tng word of the people of God also : then arc they no longer the people of God, or they are I I VIL] miSLAVD^S KV1L COVDITION. 1251 come 10 the condition ot' the Laodicean Church, wbicb wad nigh unto rejection. But I finnly^ believe it will be made appear, by tlie firmi support which this Society is destined to re- ceive from «J1 trtie spiritual men, and true Pro-^ tevtants* a^ain^ Citthotic errurH and aiurpalionv, that we are yet a people, that we are y«t a nation, a bolyiuitien, and a peculiar people, to sbewl'ortfa the glory of Ilim who hath called ua out of dark^ DC® into hift marvellous light. Tbeae three remedies I command unto every ooe ivfao hath a tender heart to tht^ c'oiLdition of Ireland* natural and tpihiual, temporal and eternal ; First, the labours of the minidlry, m preaching the living- word ; second, the labour oi all, in circulating tbe written word ; and, la^tlyj the most atrcnuouB exertion of aJI, eapeciaily Ihft luynn^jip and llinst? of wei^it aiul uilltjeiice, in tiy* sUting the present n^^asuruft contcrmplatt^ (oi education, and maintaining those presently iq opeialion. valihni; them, not by their indiffercooe to, but their enlightened ^al against, the moi crrora with which the people and their c