was uttered but lately, we have more than once been present when they promulgated their pernicious sentiments before young persons of both sexes.

Suppose, to take a very low ground indeed, we were to admit their creed to be orthodox,-would that belief add to the sum of human happiness? Would it give them more faithful wives, or their children more careful mothers? We imagine not: why then are they so insensate as to injure themselves by seeking to make their mothers, their wives, and their daughters worthless, by robbing them of their chief source of strength, of happiness, and of consolation? for what supports the mind of woman under the pressure of affliction but a confident re

liance upon the mercy of a crucified Redeemer? He who took man's nature upon him, can feel for man.

Woman, in all her afflictions, pours her sorrows into the bosom of her heavenly Father, and is comforted: knowing that he who was dead, and is alive again, will intercede for her with his heavenly Father, and bring her out of all her troubles.

The most devoted followers of Christ upon earth were females; by females he was ministered unto from his first to his last hour; and by females he never was denied or reviled. From this circumstance, we assume that women have a right to raise the cry of rallying round the cross, and of boldly standing forward to repel Infidelity from the fireside of the Christian.

Should the humble efforts of our pen be blessed, by causing but one human and accountable being to think, we shall glory in the toil and praise God for the momentous result.

INTRODUCTION.

SINCE the Infidel seeks to deprive us of our ground of hope, will he have the goodness to tell us what we are to substitute in the place of the atonement? It is a hard case to deprive a man of his living without making him some remuneration for his loss. We have read the works of several Infidel authors, and not one of them has even hinted at a substitute for the atonement.

We are at a loss to know the views of the Infidel—if he reject the mediation of the Lord Jesus, to whom, or to what, does he look for salvation? If the Infidel

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believe in the fall, what is to redeem him?

He surely cannot imagine that his own merits will. And if he do not believe in the Fall, what does this amount to ?— This, that man must have been made imperfect. See what a string of inconsistencies the Infidel's creed would bring upon the world, whereas the Fall clearly and satisfactorily accounts for all the crimes committed by mankind. Whatsoever view the infidel may take of the world, whether he believe in the Fall or otherwise, his position is not tenable. For if, in the Fall, he must acknowledge that he has offended God, and by what means is God to be reconciled? If he do not believe in the Fall, yet, if he believe God to be of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, how does he reconcile this with man's apostacy? Thus we find,