parties in the Jewish synagogue; how ably he pushes on the waving faith of Agrippa, how he kindles into seven-fold eloquence, when the hope of reclaiming that illustrious Pagan flashes across his mind. "King Agrippa believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest; and Agrippa said, thou almost persuadest me to be a Christian; then said Paul, I would to God, that not only thou, but that all who hear me this day were as I am, saving these bonds."

Here, then, I will stop, and, recapitulating the plain story that has been told, make a stand for Christianity. At the first appearance of this religion, St. Paul declares himself its enemy, and becomes the bitter persecutor of its converts; he solicits, and obtains permission from the high priest to root it out; he, on a sudden, declares his belief in this heresy; fairly tells' the Jews, he has been converted by a miracle; not only believes, but ardently propagates it; and in the course of his religious labors, exposes himself to every possible danger, and difficulty that human nature

can encounter: The inferences to be drawn from this plain history, are these, that that man cannot be insincere, who has suffered evils worse than death, for what he believes to be the truth; who by a life of pain, and wandering, of anguish and labor, has borne witness to the integrity of his faith; that that man cannot be a weak man, who has carried the arts of successful persuasion through barbarous, and through civilized men, and extorted from Pagan pride, and Pagan power, such splendid evidence of his cogent arguments, and his imposing eloquence: He is, then, a good man, and a wise man; and as he is, let him not plead, and suffer in vain ; let not his long labor, and his illustrious life be lost upon us; let us finish what Agrippa began,-our conviction,and when he reasons of temperance, and righteousness, and judgment to come, let us do more than Felix, not only tremble, but tremble and repent.

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