When so many millions of the human race are suffered to live in ignorance of the way of salvation, what thanks are due to God on the part of those whose lot has been cast in a land of light! It is likewise calculated to awaken the most ardent zeal for the dissemination of the gospel. If men might be saved through Christ by the law of nature, what encouragement would there be for any extraordinary exertions for this object? The view, then, which is here given of the subject, is the only one which stimulates zeal for the spreading of the glad news of salvation. If the gospel is the only medium of communicating to men the salvation that is in Jesus Christ, let Christians do all that lies in their power for its diffusion, till the knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea