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A reference to the “ Clergy list” of Prince Edward Island, for eighteen hundred and sixty, will at once place the reader in a position to measure the spiritual circumference of 1860, from the centre pOint of 1818. The laborers in the vineyard are now many, and the harvest is great. The people of the Colony are now willing, and their opportunities wide. Religious meetings are now frequent and the l attendance is abundant. The means of charitable. action is now strengthened, and the field of benevo- lence is faithfully cultivated. The fountain open and now offered by the stewards of the words of life, relieves a thirsting multitude, and as the hurt panteth for the 'water brook, so do the congregations desire to drink to their refreshing the wholesome words of Truth.

It may be, and probably is, the case, that in this Island there underlies the externals of religion and morality, many symptoms of the Pharisee, and some feelings of the Levite, but while the inhabitants “ suffer the word of exhortation” and bear rcproof without resistance, and treat their ministers reverent~ ly and with kindness and respect, they may safely hold up their heads before the world at large, as a religious and moral Colony. But the best estimate now a days is not so much in the distance ofthe past was from the present is of any one country, as in the degrees of zeal and devotedness, which one country measures with another—as in the greater aptitudes that one possesses over another to make means ' availing—as in the accuracy with which truth is transplanted from soil to soil. The best estimate of a progress in religion and morality is not so much in the reckoningsofa mileage from Satan. asthe ponder- ings on the approaches to God—as the greater con- tains the less. so religion necessarily embraces morality. But people may travel a long way from the haunts of evil on the road of morality without seeing before them the path of religion—they may feel the coldness 'of this unsatisfying world without desiring to be touched with a live coal from off the altar—aye,they may go further, they may abhor the