written in LATIN, which is the language of the empire of the world. Inventors of the arts, oh Grecians! inheritors of the promise of God, oh Jews! lords of the world, oh Romans! draw near, read this pregnant inscription, and bend before your king! The time advances, when this unpitied, deserted sufferer will call to his standard all the inhabitants of the earth. Let me yield to the exultation that now warms my bosom, while Tertullian informs me, that in his days, in the infancy of the church, the name of JESUS was universally adored:-'We form,' says that illustrious personage, 'almost the greatest number in every town. Pars pene major civitatis cujusque.' The invincible Parthians, the antinome Thracians, so called by the ancients in consequence of their refractory nature, which disdained the restraint of law: these ardent, undisciplined minds submitted to the yoke of Jesus. The Medes, the Armenians, the Persians, the remote Indians, the Moors, the Arabs, the extensive provinces of the East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Africa, the wandering Scythian, the savage inhabitant of Barbary, embrace the humanizing doctrine of Christ. England, inaccessible from its immortal bulwark-the ocean,

even on the shore of this isle,' says Tertullian, 'the faith of Christ has landed.' The British coast, which the stately ships of the warlike Romans ap