Such was the opposition once shown to this venerable Society, and by persons too within the pale of the church. Who these persons were signifies now as little to us, as the arguments which they advanced, and which have so happily failed of success. And such we hope will be the fate of all objections to the Bible Society. Could these opposers of the Old Society, now contemplate its progress, how would they shrink within themselves, and condemn their own blindness and bigotry. Could they now see the fields trodden by Ziegenbalgh and Swartz, once “a waste howling wilderness,” now “rejoicing and blossoming as the rose,” with what anguish would they regard their own hostility, and how would they bless the author of all good, for having wrenched the weapons from their hands. Now every thing is seen by them in its proper colour and dimensions; now every object is merged in the one great object of the prevalence of truth. The triumphs of the gospel fills, if we may so speak, their whole field of vision. Let the opponents, then, of the Bible Society, learn a lesson from this. For with them, soon, all the hopes and fears of this world will have passed away; they will see every object in the light of the sanctuary, and measure every institution upon its sacred scale: the world will be nothing, and Christ will be all in all. May these persons at that awful day be enabled to justify themselves before that God, who would not that _any_ should perish, but that _all_ should come to the knowledge of the truth; before that Saviour who has commanded us to preach his gospel to all nations, and who, in the glowing language of his own book, has shadowed out this and similar institutions, under the image of an angel carrying the everlasting gospel to every nation, and language, and tongue, and people; before those souls, who are now crying to us for help—for that help, which the British and Foreign Bible Society is seeking to impart. * * * * * * * * * * FINIS. * * * * * * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR, SERMON ON THE BIBLE SOCIETY, PREACHED _AT BECCLES_, AND AT ST. MARY’S CHURCH, BUNGAY. _Price_ 6_d._ * * * * * ALSO, _THE FISHERMAN’S DAUGHTER_: A NARRATIVE FROM REAL LIFE. _Price_ 3_d._ or 2_s._ 6_d._ _per dozen_. * * * * * _Printed by J. Keymer_, _King-Street_, _Yarmouth_. FOOTNOTES. {12a} Vide British Critic for May 1816, Arte 10. {12b} Vide British Critic for May 1816, Arte 10.