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attentively what is done in those places® If you will but come to one of those stations on a Sunday and look around vou, and take notice of the orderly manner in which the people have built their houses; the straightness of the streets; the attendance of the children in school; the people ceasing from their work on the day of rest; their going to and returning from church cleanly dressed and without noise or rudeness; the order they observe when assembled in church, the men, the women, and the children sitting in separate places in rows; their rising up, sitting down and kneeling, like one man, at proper times in the performance of divine worship; their confessing their sins and praising(God with one voice, their listening in silence to the sermon of the minister;—when vou observe all these things,
you will ask with surprise, arc these really native people that behave so orderly?
If you have never up to this time been in a Mission village or scen any of these things, come some Sunday and see them for yourselves. If you do so, vou wil be able to judge whether or not Christianity teaches good order, and what progress in civilisation native Christians may be expected to make in process of time.
3. Temporal prosperity—Christianity not only promotes education and civilisation, but it also tends to promote the temporal and material prosperity of those who embrace it.
Christians, it is true, do not always prosper in the world. They suffer occasionally from discase and are afflicted with trials like other people. They are sometimes in distress even for the necessaries of life; and they must at length die, like all the rest of mankind. But though they are afflicted like other people, they enjoy comforts which other people know nothing
of. Their afflictions also are found to be blessings in the end.