. 51 Thoy are not mutterers of incantations, or performers of empty
ceremonies. Their office is to teach people to be virtuous.
If you enquire whether Christian ministers really do all this, all who are acquainted with them will assure you that they do. If you enquire also how they learnt to guide their people with so much Jove, the answer is, that they are believers in the Lond of grace who thronzh his love for m-n beeam: man and suffered and died, and that they have learnt to follow him and to love like him. You will scek in vain amongst the followers of other relivions for any class of porsons win do so much good. They are found only where the Christian church is found. lt cannot be doubted that the office and work of Christian ministers must tend to promote virtue and good morals. Tt may happen, inleed, that through some cause or another no gird result is produced by their labours iu some partiendar place; nevertheless it mast be alnitted that
their labours are aluirably titted t) produce a good result.
Dear friends, would it not be greatly to your wlvantage, if those zurus were to beeome your gurus also, on your request, and if they were to give you the beneiit of the instriaction and guidance which they give to their own peo
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2. The Bille, which contains the Gospel of Chris!, is a
very important means of promoting virtue awd good orals.
If vou have met with any Christian teachers, vou must have heard them speak laraely of that book. Perhaps vou have also read some portions of it yourselves. Persons who have enquired into and examined all the ethical books of
any importance in the world confidently assert that the way