The Infidel's Confession.
A SKEPTICAL family recently removed from a Christian community, where they would not encourage, but rather opposed Christian institutions and efforts, to a township where there was no church, no Sabbath schools, no regard for the Lord's day, no respect for his law. We called upon them some weeks after the removal, and almost the first words they uttered were, "We can not live here; this is an awful place; every one fishes, hunts, or works on Sabbath; we have no meetings, no Sabbath Schools, no regard for anything of the kind; we can not endure the thought of bringing up our children here." Thus even unbelievers testify that "godliness is profitable;" that the benefits which it confers upon society, place every man, infidel or Christian, under obligation to patronize it. All men see this when they compare a Christian people with those who are destitute of these influences. There is not a foot of land, a temporal privilege, a social relation, but what is made more valuable by Christian influence; and yet, how many there are who live in the midst of these benefits, who throw all their influence against the very religion which blesses them! They curse their best friends; they fight against their best interests; they are their own worst enemies. Why will they not reflect, open their eyes and see that duty, interest, gratitude, every consideration, bind them to befriend Christianity.—Sel.