There is something so fearful, so tremendous in this retrospect, that I do not wonder that men who have never known "the terrors of the Lord," and "the exceeding sinfulness of sin," should reject the theory altogether. While looking down into this abyss, my dear Friend, I am seized with a shivering horror. I tremble exceedingly. And yet the truth which is here so deeply impressed on my mind is the same as that which I learn from the history of the fallen angels, left without a Saviour; from the flood; as that which I receive in Gethsemane and at Calvary; and which is irresistibly confirmed while I look at the civil, and mental, and moral condition of these Seven Hundred and Fifty Millions of Pagans, &c. All proclaims the fearful truth, that there is a criminality, a turpitude, a desert in sin, which we cannot comprehend. And if it were the will of God, that the law should take its course, without mercy, to the end of time, what could we say?—"Is God unjust that taketh vengeance? God forbid."

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