A scrupulosity of temper in the use of any lawful means to promote the spiritual or
temporal welfare of mankind, receives no countenance either from reason of Revela-
tion, or from the conduct of the best and wisest men. And when to this we add the
zeal and diligence with which bad men (and eminently at the present period) practise
every device to spread universal mischief, who shall deny that it is allowable for every
good man, nay, still more, that it is his duty, by every fair and practicable method, to
diffuse good; and when it is rejected in one form, to try whether it may not find en-
tertainment in another?
ELY BATES.
PUBLISHED BY JOHNSON & WARNER,
AND SOLD AT THEIR BOOKSTORES, PHILADELPHIA,
AND RICHMOND (VIRG.)