of the daughter of my people : mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,, without any intermission, till the Lord look down upon them, and behold from heaveng." This is the frame of mind which becomes us : and sure I am, that, if any measure of it be found in us, we shall neglect them no longer. We shall consider what can be done in their behalf; and shall not suffer every foolish excuse that can be offered to warp our judgment, or to paralyze our ex- ertions. We shall bear in mind, what arrears of love we owe to them, and what a fearful responsibility hangs over us before God : and we shall lend our- selves to every good work, whereby their minds may be enlightened, and their souls " subdued to the obe- dience of faith." We shall not account it superfluous to exert ourselves, because we do not expect " the nation to be born in a day ;" but shall gladly labour, in every possible way, for the promotion of their good, ". if by any means we may save some." If we may but gain "one of a city, and two of a tribe or fa- mily11 ;" yea, if after all our efforts, we may but glean a small remnant, four or five from the top of the outermost branches of the olive-tree1, we shall ac- count our exertions richly recompensed, and shall bless our God that we " have- not laboured in vain, or run in vain."
s Lam. iii. 48 — 50. h Jer. iii. 14. » Isai. xvii. 6.