296 John, Iv. 24. [1618.

" If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins?" If this be true, then are that whole people perishing by millions. And shall we suffer them thus to " perish for lack of knowledge ?" God forbid. If any of us know what salvation is, we ought to impart it to others. We feel this obligation in some mea- sure to the heathen, to whom we are not at all indebted; and yet overlook it in reference to the Jews, from whom we have received all the light and knowledge we possess. This ought not so to be : this should not continue one hour longer : we ought all to rise, as one man, to repair, as far as possible, our past neglect, and to fulfil our duties to God and man. But, if we will still continue to hide our talent in a napkin, know all of you, that you shall be called into judgment for it, and that the doom of the unpro- fitable servant must await you. But " let me hope better things, though I thus speak, even things that accompany salvation." I thank God that some at least have awaked to the calls of justice and of mercy; of justice to God, who has entrusted them with their talents ; and of mercy to the Jews, who so greatly need their improvement of them. And I pray God that this spirit may abound more and more ; and that they who embark in this good cause may soon have the happiness to see that " they have not laboured in vain, nor run in vain."