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4G EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR.
expressed. But no doubt to some extent it was, and
is, a real indifference; and I fear that what an ancient
prophet said of a Jewish tribe, " Ephraim is a cake
unturned," may be said of us. Delivered from
personal danger by our belt of ocean, and prosperous
as a nation beyond all precedent in the year just gone
by, security and luxury have made us selfish. We
must awake to this, else God in His mercy will arouse
us by chastisement; for although it seem not so, yet
it is true, that selfishness and indifference, sloth and
luxury, are greater evils than death and suffering;
and God frequently, in mercy, interposes with these
rods to awaken men to the thought of the needs of
others, and to arouse and awaken those who are fall-
ing asleep solely wrapped up in themselves and de¬
sirous to be left to their repose,—to higher things.
DANGERS OF REVOLUTION.
We have not much to dread from foreign foes, per¬
haps, if we are true to ourselves and our principles.
But in what these consist it is not at present, pro¬
bably, easy to say, for the same double idea of things
is present among us as to our own affairs, as we have
seen to be present with us as to the affairs of others;
and, no doubt, we live in an age of change when
opinion is only in a state of formation. The nation is
growing both in Church and State. " The old order
changeth, giving place to the new;" yet we have no
cause to fear that which is to come, if we recognise
that it must be good, if dealt with lovingly and
wisely.
We, in this part of Scotland (Appin), used to be the