fellow creatures: It seemed to change mankind into another species of beings. Origen represents this power in the Christian religion as no less wonderful than that of curing the lame, and giving sight to the blind, or cleansing the leper. For where hatred, variance, wrath, emulation, envyings and strife prevailed, the Christian precepts have produced love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, &c.

If a tree be known by its fruit, these are not the sort of fruit which a tree planted by magic, or the devil, would bear.

We might also quote St. Paul, for he, before his conversion, was a bitter enemy to the Christians, "punishing them in every synagogue, and compelling them to blaspheme and being exceedingly mad

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against them, persecuted them even unto strange cities." St. Paul, as he himself tells us, was a Pharisee, the most learned sect amongst the Jews: so learned, that Festus told him much learning had made him mad." But he saw and believed. The Lord Jesus himself appeared unto him, and he could not resist the evidence of his senses.

Dr. Samuel Johnson is said to have been sceptical during the early part of his life. But he said to himself, If Christianity be true, I am in a most desperate state; it is my interest to examine it thoroughly:"—he did so, was convinced, and became one of its warmest and most powerful advocates.

It cannot be supposed that a man like Dr. Johnson would take up an opinion lightly, or that he became a Christian

until he had the most convincing evidence of Christ's divinity. We could mention several other learned men who followed the example of Dr. Johnson, and like him became eminent and zealous supporters of Christ's Gospel.

We are fully convinced that Infidelity can be entertained by two classes of men only, the careless man, and the man of weak intellect. The former is too idle to read and study the Scriptures, and the latter has not capacity to comprehend what he reads. With regard to the first, we can vouch for the truth of the following circumstance. A friend of ours, of that careless turn of mind, had a well chosen library: we particularly remarked that Paley's Evidences of Christianity, and Dr. Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testi

mony, were placed in the centre of the bookcase. Imagining that our friend was in the habit of perusing those books, we asked him his opinion of them? His answer was, "that he was unacquainted with their contents, having never opened them." Such carelessness concerning our best interests is scarcely credible! How little did our unthinking friend imagine that had he studied the two mentioned books in the centre of his library, they might have led him from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God: for we are fully convinced that none but a madman or a fool could resist the force of these Evidences.

Sir Thomas Brown says in his Religio Medici : "I dare, without usurpation, assume the honourable style of a Christian.

Not that I merely owe this title to the font, as most do, taking up their religion according to the way of their ancestors, my education, or clime wherein I was born; but having, in my riper years and confirmed judgment seen and examined all, I find myself obliged by the principles of grace, and the law of mine own reason, to embrace no other name but this. I am of the same belief our Saviour taught, the apostles disseminated, the fathers authorized, and the martyrs confirmed."

We once heard some Infidels say, that, 66 were they to see an angel walk through a stone wall, they would believe him to be a heavenly messenger, and would faithfully perform whatever he might desire them."

For our part, we should be very sorry

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