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restraint by means of a fire-place, to prevent it frum burning down your houses; but though the passions of men are more dangerous than either water or fire, you use no means whatever to keep them under restraint or to
prevent them from bringing your villages to ruin!
Compare this disorderly condition of things with the order which prevails wherever the Christian church is established. The ministers of the Christian religion, or Missionaries, commonly called“ Tadre-gentlemen,” have come from a great distance for the purpose of doing good to the people of this country. You must occasionally have seen them going from village to village, or heard of their doing so. Would you like to know what they do when they arrive ina village in which Christians reside 2 They assemble the people of the congregation in the church, and after performing with them the worship of God, they remind them of the justice of the heavenly King and of the love of the Divine Saviour, Jesus Christ, and urge them to walk in the way of virtue. They exhort them not to tell lies, not to steal, not to do any injustice to any one; to be patient, to be at peace with one another and with all men, and to show their faith and piety by their good conduct. They comfort those who are in sorrow, they strengthen those who are weak, they reprove those who have entered upon evil courses, they seek those who have gone astray from the right way, they give instruction to the ignorant and simple. They enquire after the poor and widows, and
assist them with the alms of the congregation. They ex
amine the lessons which the children have learnt in school, and exhort parents to bring up their children properly, and children to be obedient to their parents. They teach to all the wisdom of this life and the wisdom of the next.