The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

iceSERMONS.and furely it floweth with milk and honey ; and thisis the fruit of it. The land we pafTed through tofearch it is an exceeding good land." Nay, I am perfeftlyfure, that the clearer information you get concerningit, the more you will be convinced that theland is fertile and defirable •, fo that I may apply tothis land what Mofes faid of Canaan, and underftandhis exprefTions in the fulleft fenfe :" For the Lordthy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land ofbrooks of water, of fountains, and depths that fpringout of valleys and hills •, a land of ^^heat, and barley,and vines, and f:g-trees, and pomegranates ; a landof oil-olive, and honey ; a land wherein thou {hall£at bread without fcarcenefs, thou fliall not lack anything in it ;. a land vvhofe ftones are iron, and out ofwhofe hills thou mayefl dig brafs.". The continent of North America, now the pro-3perty of Great Britain, is large '* : I am come/' as itis in the text, " to bring you into a good land and alarge." AVas it only fome narrow province, thoughever fo good, the thought of going to it would yieldlittle comfort to fo great numbers as are here oppref^fed, becaufe it could bring relief but to a few : Butas it is fruitful, it is alfo large, and almoft unbounded,extending from the Britifh fettlements on the fea--coall (which reach along the fhore 2000 miles), weft--ward to thefe immenfe rivers Miflilippi and Saint Laurencej a country large in a literal i'enfe, fifty or anhundred times as large as that v/hich is fpoken of inthe text Ja country which is able to accom.modatetwenty times as many people as are at this day inScotland. Here, for many years paft, it would almoftfeem there was not room for men of your laboriousoccupation ; for whenever a farm was to be let, therewere many of you in competition, juftling againft oneanother to get into it ; and this pra£lice many of youfollowed, till you ruined yourfelves by it. But therethere can be no fuch competition ^ the land is large,.