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Was an infidel, and one of the first mathematicians of his age! Though, in some respects, he might be considered a worthy man, his conduct through life, was rude, vulgar, and frequently immoral. He paid no attention to religious duties, and both intoxication and profane language were fal miliar to him. Towards the close of his days, being afflicted with the stone, he would crawl about the floor on his hands and knees, sometimes praying, and some> times swearing. What a poor creature is man without religion! Newton died of the same disorder, which was attended, at times, with such severe paroxysms as forced out large drops of sweat down his face. In these trying circumstances, however, he was never observed to utter the smallest complaint, or to express the least impa tience. What a striking contrast between the conduct of the infidel and the christian!

VOLTAIRE,

During a long life, was continually treating the Holy Scriptures with contempt, and endeavouring to spread the poison of infi delity among the nations. In his last ill

ness he sent for Tronchin. When the Doctor came, he found Voltaire in the greatest agonies, exclaiming with the ut most horrorem abandoned by God and man. Doctor, I will give you half of what I am worth, if you will give me six months life. The doctor answered, Sir, you cannot live six weeks. Voltaire replied, Then I shall go to hell, and you will go with mel and soon afterftxpired. 41

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This is the thero of moderni-infidels!! Dare any of them say,Let me die the death of Voltaire, and let my last end be like this? That he was a man of great and various talents,

want of sound none can deny. but his

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learning, and moral qualifi tions, will ever prevent him from being ranked with the benefactors of mankind. If the reader has felt himself injured by the poison of this man's writing's, he may find relief for his wounded mind, by peru sing Findlay's Vindication of the Sacred Books from the misrepresentations and cavils of Voltaire; and Lefanu's Letters of certain Jews to Voltaire? The hoary infidel cuts but a very sorry figure in the hands of these Sons of Abraham, da L.During Voltaire's last visit to Paris, when his triumph was complete, and he had seven feared that he should die with

glory, amidst the acclamations of an infatuated theatre, he was struck by the hand of Providence, and fated to make a very different termination of his career. b 7 besk In the midst of his triumphs, a violent hemorrhage raised apprehensions for his life D'Alembert, Diderot, and Marmontel, hastened to support his resolution in his last moments, but were only witnesses to their mutual ignominy, as well as to his own. Rage, remorse, reproach, and blasphemy, all accompany and characterize the long agony of the dying atheist.

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On his return from the theatre, and in the midst of the toils he was resuming to acquire fresh applause, Voltaire was warned, that the long career of his impiety was drawing to an end.

In spite of all the sophisters flocking around him, in the first days of illness, he gave signs of wishing to return to the God whom he had so often blasphemed. He called for the priest. His danger increasing, he wrote the following note to the Abbé Gaultier:-"You had promised me Sir, to, come and hear me. I intreat you would take the trouble of calling on me as soon as possible,Signed VOLTAIRE. Paris, 26th Feb. 1778."

A few days after he wrote the following

This declaration is also signed by the Marquis de Villevieille, to whom, eleven years before, Voltaire wrote, "Conceal your march from the enemy, in your endeavours to crush the wretch !"*

Voltaire had permitted this declaration to be carried to the rector of Sulpice and to the archbishop of Paris, to know whether it would be sufficient. When the Abbé Gaultier returned with the answer, it was 'impossible for him to gain admittance to the patient. The conspirators strained every nerve to hinder the Chief from consummating his recantation, and every avenue was shut to the priest, whom Voltaire himself had sent for. The demons haunted every access: rage succeeded to fury, and fury to rage again, during the remainder of his life.

D'Alembert, Diderot, and about twenty others of the conspirators, who had beset his apartment, never approached him, but to witness their own ignominy, and often he would curse them, and exclaim: "Retire! It is you that have brought me to my pre

It had been customary during many years for Voltaire to call our blessed Saviour-The Wretch. And he vowed that he would crush him. He closes many of his letters to his infidel-friends with the same words-crush the wretch !

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