tand alone. What does God say to the
prophet, who should see the peril of the wicked, and neglect to save him
by giving him warning? "His blood will I require at thy hand." What does
God say of the watchman of a city who should see the sword come, and
blow not the trumpet? "If the sword come and take any person from among
them, his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."

But this is not only the sentiment of the Bible, but the voice of common
sense.

A neighbor of mine is drowning in the river. With a little exertion I
can save his life, but neglect to do it. Shall I escape the goadings of
conscience and the charge of blood-guiltiness?

A house is in flames. The perishing occupants, looking from a window,
implore of me to reach them a ladder. I have some little affairs of my
own to attend to, and turn a deaf ear to their cry. The flames gather
around them: they throw themselves from the window, and are dashed in
pieces on the pavement. Who will not charge me with the loss of those
lives?

To-day, a raging malady is spreading through the streets of a large
city. The people are dying by hundreds. I know the cause; the fountains
of the city are poisoned. From indolence, or some other cause, I neglect
to give the information, and merely attend to my own safety. Who would
not load me with the deepest guilt, and stamp me as the basest of
murderers?

Both Scripture and common sense, then, concur in establishing the
sentiment, that if our fellow men are perishing, and we neglect to do
what we can to save them, we are guilty of their blood. But if this
doctrine be true, its application to Christians, in the relation which
they sustain to the heathen world, is irresistibly conclusive and
awfully momentous. The soul shudders, and shrinks back from the fearful
thought: If six hundred millions of our race are sinking to perdition,
and we neglect to do what we can to save them, we shall be found
accountable for their eternal agonies.

If such a charge is standing against us, we shall soon meet it. The day
of judgment will soon burst upon us. Let us look, then, at the subject
candidly, prayerfully, and with a desire to do our duty.

The conditions on which the charge impends are simply two: that the
heathen world are sinking to perdition, and that we are neglecting to do
what we can to save them. If these two points are substantiated, the
overwhelming conclusion is inevitable. It becomes us, then, to look well
at these