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In accordance with this verse in the Kural, there is a judge, called“conscience,” in every man's own mind, which inquires into offences and passes sentence upon offenders. Your conscience reproves vou when vou have done any thing that is wrong, and exhorts you to do the good aetions that you were leaving wndone. Ilowever virtuous men may be, their conscience is always much purer and better than their conduct. We never see any one whose conduct is perfectly in accordance with the law of his own con science. Notwithstanding this, people never say that they do mot require a conscience, or that there is no use in their knowing good from evil. On the contrary, all persons of reflection will say,“with a conscience we are men, withcut it we are beasts. Leave us our consciences, and we will endeavour to obey their dictates better in future.” Just $0, when Christianity teaches a hich morality and a pure character, and illustrates that morality and that character by the history of Christ, you oursht not to sav that it is beyond your power to act up to so exelent a relivion, and, therefore, that it is not your duty to embrace ir: but on the eontrary, vou should accept it with Jov, because it is approved of by your consciences, amd beeanse it is of so divine a nature, and should use all vour endeavours, thronzh the help of God's grace, to Keep its precepts.
Thouzh it is true that ny one acts porfeetly in arceordance with the Christian relizion or with the examnle of Christ, yet that religion ad that example are sources of wich benefit. If one takes a bow and aims at the sun m the heavens, thonsh the arrow he shoots will not hit the sun, vet it will mount upwards into the sky. Not so
with the arrow that is aimed at the ground,—it mounts
not wpwards. Even so, though Christian perfection and ex