he sight of the grace which
has been working in and for them, and the glory which is now their
blessed portion." Such persons, perhaps, as those two poor negresses--to
remind you of a story which was famous in our fathers' time--those two
poor negresses, I say, who found the African traveller, Mungo Park, dying
of fever and starvation, and saved his life, simply from human love--as
they sung to themselves by his bedside--

"Let us pity the poor white man;
He has no mother to make his bed,
No wife to grind his corn."

Perhaps it is such as those, who have succoured human beings they knew
not why, simply from a divine instinct, from the voice of Christ within
their hearts, which they felt they must obey, though they knew not whose
voice it was. Perhaps, I say, it is such as those, that Christ will
astonish at the last day by the words, "Come ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

If this be the true meaning of our Lord's words, what comfort and hope
they may give us, when we think, as we are bound to think, if we have a
true humanity in us, of the hundreds of millions of heathen now alive,
and of the thousands of millions of heathen who have lived and died.
Sinful they are as a whole. Sinning, it may be, without law, but
perishing without law. For the wages of sin are death, and can be
nothing else. But may not Christ have His elect among them? May not His
Spirit be working in some of them? May He not have His sheep among them,
who hear His voice though they know not that it is His voice? They hear
a voice within their hearts whispering to them, "Be loving, be merciful,
be humane, in one word be just, and do to others as you would they should
do to you." And whose voice can that be but the voice of Christ, and the
Spirit of God? Those loving instincts come not from the fleshly fallen
nature, or natural man. That says to us, "Be selfish; do not be loving.
Do to others not what you would they should do to you, but do to others
whatever is pleasant and profitable to yourselves." And alas! the
heathen, and too many who call themselves Christians, listen to that
carnal voice, and live the life of selfishness and pleasure, of anger and
revenge, of tyranny and cruelty--the end of which is death.

But if any among those heathen--hearing within their hearts the other
voice, the gracious voice which says, "Do unto others as