wrath,  and  mii;ht  lla^•e  been  doomed  to  hopeless  so,  but  because  God  had  determined  that  the  corn-
misery,  there  is  not  the  shadow  of  injustice  in  the  puny  should  be  saved  by  the  skill  and  activity  of  the
exercise  of  His  mercy  only  to  a  portion  of  the  crimi


nals.  When  one  man  is  exempted  from  punishment,
no  injury  is  done  to  his  comijanious  in  condemnation,
■who  are  loft  to  the  vengeance  of  the  law  because
they  richly  deserve  to  suffer  it  and  do  not  become
less  guilty  because  he  is  pardoned.  He  only  is  a
resijecter  of  persons  who  confers  favors  ujjou  some


sailors?  It  is  not  more  necessary  that  those  who
were  chosen  to  life  should  be  saved,  than  it  is  that
they  should  repent  and  believe.
Prentiss,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  was  born  in  Tort-
land,  Me.,  October  2(!th,  1818.  Her  father  was  the
gifted  and  saintly  Edward  Payson.  Her  mother  and
only  sister  were  also  remarkable  persons.     She  early


and  withholds  them  from  others  equally  deserving;  I  showed    rare


endowments    of    mind,    united   with


not  he  who,  where  none  has  a  claim  upon  him,  dis-
poses of  his  gifts  in  the  free  exercise  of  the  power
over  them  which  naturally  belongs  to  him.  Jlay  he
not  do  what  he  will  with  his  own  ?

It  is  objected,  that  tlie  doctrine  of  predestination
supposes  men  to  be  under  the  necessity  of  siuuiu;


intense  aftections,  sj'raiiathies  and  spiritual  longings.
