Here is a minister of the everlasting gospel; and in the person of one of his followers, he turns away the Saviour himself, "_hungry_, _naked_," and from "_prison_."--Rev. Sir, for just such conduct as you have been guilty of, in the instance alluded to, the Son of man will one day say to some,--"Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire!" After some time Mr. Robbins obtained help from his distant friends, and was enabled to make a respectable appearance. But in the interim he learned by hard experience, that shivering and half-clad limbs can, even in the benevolent, philanthropic, and christian city of Boston, pass by the priest and the Levite, and range the streets, impurpled by the wintry blasts, uncompassionated and unrelieved. As soon as circumstances would permit, he united in christian fellowship with a church, desiring in proper time to become a missionary to state prisons, to declare to the erring and degraded sons of crime the salvation of the gospel. In this view of his duty he appeared singular with some of the rulers of the church, and for this, or some other cause, he transferred his fellowship from the Congregationalists to the Episcopal Methodists. On making this transfer, he applied to the church for license to exhort, for which he obtained ONE vote only. But as there was no _contra_ votes, his license was barely granted. Not a very _cordial_ reception this, and more sensitive minds than his, would have felt it; but nothing of this kind ever had an effect to deter him from going forward in the course of his duty; and after the usual time, he was licensed as a preacher. He began now to think more seriously of turning his immediate attention to prisons. Explaining his views to the church, enough fell in with them to form a society, called "THE PRISON MISSIONARY SOCIETY," of which he was appointed Agent and Secretary. This Society was formed in Boston, and according to its plan, Mr. Robbins went out to form other similar societies in different places, till his views should be carried into effect by sending all the means of salvation to as many prisons as possible, and by finding employment for prisoners when they are released.