...after; the former must he offered to a people, whose spiritual appetite is in a state of dormancy, ancf with whom it is just as necessary to create a hunger,...abandon to the operation of the principle of demand IT is perhaps the best among all cmr more general arguments for a religious establishment in a country,...

...and with whom it is just as necessary to create a hunger, as it is to minister a positive supply. Jn these circumstances, it were vain to wait for any...receivers. It must be made on the part of the dispensers." (P. 89, 90.) On these principles, all the arguments in favour of an obtrusive or aggressive system,...

...can be for want of them, that society will languish under the want of aliment for the human body. " But the case is widely different, when the appetite...It must be made on the part of the dispensers. Nor docs it follow, that be•fuue government may wisely abandon to the operation of the principle of demand...

...Protestantism, is not Popery gaining ground r It will be readily admitted, that, in the case of the Gospel, " it were vain to wait for any original movement on the part of the receivers," and that " it must be made on the part of the dispensers." But who does not see that this is the most...

...Protestantism, is not Popery gaining ground ? It will be readily admitted, that, in the case of the Gospel, " it were vain to wait for any original movement on the part of the receivers," and that " it must be made on the part of the dispensers." But who does not see that this is the most...

...offered to a people, whose spiritual appetite is in a state of dormancy ; and with whom it is j ust as necessary to create a hunger, as it is to minister...of our nature, are adequate, the one to the other, ehe ought, therefore, to abandon all care of our interest, when the desire on the part of our species...

...of the present day, a Minister of the Scotch Church, I mean Dr. Chalmers. " It is not," says he, " with the aliment of the soul, as it is with the aliment...part of the dispensers. Nor does it follow, that, 53 because government may wisely abandon to the operation of the principle of demand and supply all...

...and with whom it is just as necessary to " create a hunger, as it is to minister a positive sup" ply. In these circumstances, it were vain to wait " for any original movement on the part of the re" ceivers. It must be made on the part of the dis" pensers."* Yet, in broad defiance of this argument,...

...the former must be offered to a fwple whose spiritual appetite is in a state of dormancy, and »ith whom it is just as necessary to create a hunger as...original movement on the part of the receivers. It most be made on the part of the dispensers. Nor does it Ulow, that because government may wisely abandon...