ever profusely distributing the benefits of time, while its ultimate results are lost in the glories of eternity.

XIII. The Bible Society affords an excellent illustration of how closely connected the advancement of religion is both at home and abroad; so mutual is their progress, that it is difficult to separate them even in thought; and the action and reaction of their common movements are not only conjoined, but mutually accelerating and augmenting. The efforts that are made abroad, demand more than an equal effort at home, to supply their expenditure; and the improvements that are made at home will not only be transferred to foreign enterprise and missionary exertions, but will be spread over a large expanse, and have a wider range than the country which gave them birth could afford. What is gained for humanity in one corner, however remote, is gained for humanity throughout the world; in the course of years the same improvement in practice will be everywhere adopted, and the new accession of principles will be universally made known; the schools of arts in Great Britian will serve as models for the instruction of the workmen in

Mexico and Peru; and the schools which circulate through the glens of Wales, or the Scottish Highlands, will have their counter-parts in the defiles of Caucasus, or in those which are ascending the sides of the Andes, or penetrating the roots of the Himmalaya.

PART FOURTH.

Advancement of Religion abroad.

I, Map of the World.

II. Rise of False Religions.

III. Nominal Christendom.

IV. Mahomedan Countries.

V. Eastern Asia.

VI. Central Africa.

VII. The Jews.

VIII. Christianity Universal.

IX. England the Centre of Action.

X. System.

XI. Economy.

XII. Superintendence.

XIII. Native Agency.

XIV. Education.

XV. English Language.

XVI. Translations.

XVII. Colonies.

XVIII. Conclusion.

PART FOURTH.

I. THE ancient mythologists divined well when they said, that the "River Ocean" flowed round the world. They could scarcely have guessed, however, that it divided the earth into two great islands, though they had some dark forewarnings of the existence of America in the fable of Atlantis, as mariners sometimes see the land to which they are steering, long before they have reached it, indistinctly reflected upon the clouds.

Asia may be considered as constituting the mass of the old continent, and branching out into three subdivisions the islands of the Great Ocean, Europe, and Africa-broken down towards the east into innumerable islands, which, diminishing in size, and increasing in number, are lost in their minuteness, and their multitude, in the expanse

of the Pacific-prolonged towards the north-west by Europe; which, though not altogether divided into Islands, is yet, in some measure, insulated by Mediterranean Seas-and continued to the southwest by the peninsula of Africa, which, the contrast of Europe, repels every entrance of the waves from its unbroken and continuous coast. While the new continent of America, opposed in its direction to the old, and stretching from pole to pole, is determined in its shape by that gigantic line of mountains, which, bordering on the perpetual winters of the arctic and antarctic circle, carry a range of unmelting snow through all the zones and climates of the earth.

Asia is distinguished by natural divisions into central, northern, south-eastern, and south-western Asia. Central Asia is separated by ranges of mountains into the middle, eastern, and western region, the original seats of the three great races of Scythian Herdsmen, the Moguls, the Mandshurs, and the Turks. The middle region, the country of the Moguls or Calmucks, may be considered as the nucleus and head-land of Asia from which the mountains break off in all directions, and from which the immense rivers of Asia run to the east, and to the west, or fall into the