by a wise Creator, is as evident as the admission that such a Divine being exists; and I believe I need not be called upon to prove that existence; but if I were, I should simply reply that there is so much design and skill displayed in the formation of every natural object around us that it must be occasioned by a wonderful agency that entirely surpasses the comprehension of skill of the most active, visible agency that has ever been seen or known to exist; though man is insome degree, actuated and influenced by a similar - tho' far inferior - degree of design and ingenuity. This would only prove the connection in which he stands to his Creator; who surpasses him in such a wonderful degree that the comparison would shew the vast inferiority of the mortal agent. Christianity is also the principle enjoined by the Divine Agency for our guidance, and nearer approach to him; and in this view it may be considered as the connecting link between Him and His followers; and though it is not, in itself, a material substance, acted upon by the laws of gravity or attraction, it is, notwithstanding, a constituent part of man's nature,- that is, man when actuated by his or any other devotional feeling is raised above every other order of animals in the creation; and according as he progresses, will he raise to that superior ascendancy of mind that shews the vast distinction of his nature from any other unintelligent being. To define religion as a principle confined to Christians alone would require us to base our enquiries on Christianity,- that is, religion being first admitted as the source from which it is derived,- that is, on God as its first and primary object; from whom both we and all proceed to acknowledge him as possessed of the wonderful attributes ascribed to him; and to throw every other deification out of sight; taking God the Father as the Founder of our world, the author of our existence, the awarded of rewards and punishments, and indeed the great and wonderful Director, not only of our earthly sphere which we inhabit,- but of the heavens, and all that our minds can even contemplate of creative power. Then we take Christ, the Son,- the Father's only begotten Son; who worked the wondrous redemption of the human race; took upon him the nature of man, while he was yet God; and promulgated the great Christian truths, for which He, Himself, in the nature of man, suffered the severest death, that worldly terror, pains, cruelties, and barbarism could inflict. From Him, as the Mediator between God and man, we receive the directing influence of Christianity, superadded to our own natural religion; by which we attribute to ourselves the designation of Christians or followers of Christ; all that has been hitherto enveloped and hidden in remote obscurity, not even demonstrated to the keen and ever searching perception of