less than justice, require them to cherish, they bring not upon themselves, the stain of national guilt; which must, in all cases, be repented of, and where possible, atoned for, or it will be visited, and before the millenium.

In the observations which have been made on the social system, results have been more particularly contemplated. Unquestionably, the transition from the individual to the social state, will be attended with great difficulties. Let those who take the lead beware of thinking to forward the work, by exciting unreasonable expectations, illusive hopes, of an Utopian paradise, to be at once enjoyed. Let this be left to rapacious speculators, and heated sectaries, who will enter the field, so soon as the advantages of the social system are known. These will be likely to engage in extensive undertakings, with inadequate means; and in various ways, to bring discredit upon the plan. I doubt not, that millenial institutions will, in time, raise mankind to a higher degree of felicity, than the most fervid imagination has ever yet clearly dreamed of. The capacities of mankind for happiness, and of the objects around to minister to that happiness, have as yet, only begun to be developed. But millenial institutions, like the arts which more immediately contribute to our enjoyment, are of slow growth. The former, as we have seen, are to be established more than a thousand years before the commencement of the millenium.

Probably, industrious and quiet laborers and artizans, would, in general, feel their situation improved. But those accustomed to the control of property, and whose habits are formed, would, in many instances, find their condition sufficiently irksome. They would pine for the unbounded liberty of the world. And it is more than can be reasonably hoped, that real inconveniences would not be heightened, by innumerable jealousies and feuds. Those alone who are early accustomed to the social form of society, whose habits and feelings are conformed to its discipline, as to the changes of the seasons, who are accustomed to contribute, in their sphere, for the common benefit, and to receive in return, every thing for need and for enjoyment, as freely, and with as little care, as the light of day, and who have acquired a fraternal regard for the enlarged family circle in which they dwell; it is these who will first begin to realize the advantages of the social system. A return to the perplexities, the anxieties, the heartlessness, the solitude of the world, would be not less formidable to these, than a sojourn in the literal wilderness.

I am not sure it is desirable that any, possessing wealth, should engage, but such as are willing to put at risque, much of personal enjoyment, actuated by a sober conviction of the importance, and the duty of making an effort, in the mode set forth by prophecy, for the reformation of mankind; and by the laudable desire of improving the condition

of their children.

The foremost ranks will thus

have fewer numbers, but they will be steadfast in the hour of trial; will form a chosen band, aware of the difficulties to be encountered, and supported by a belief, that the cause is of God, and must prevail.

MILLENIAL INSTITUTIONS.

EZEKIEL, CHAPTER XL.

In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the I beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the self-same day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. In the visions of God brought he 2 me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south. And he brought me thither, and behold, there was 3 a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. And the man said unto 4 me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. And behold a wall on the outside of the 5 house round about, and in the man's hand a measuringreed of six cubits long, by the cubit, and an hand-breadth : so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward 6 the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured