five hundred thoufand fouls of this globe, this grain of fand in the vifible creation, daily pass from time to eternity, are there not mansions prepared in our Father's houfe fufficient for their reception?

SECTION XII.

HINT S

RESPECTING

HUMANE SOCIETIES,

FOR THE

RECOVERY OF DROWNED PERSONS.

THE diftrefs of a fellow-creature, whether from poverty or difeafe, ever claims the fuccour of the affluent; and in this country this fuccour has been amply afforded: it is, however, but recently, that means of relief have been extended beyond apparent death, to convey new

life into a being, to every external sense, no longer fufceptible of pleasurable or painful fenfations; a breathlefs object, deftined to the grave, till Philanthropy and Science, under the name and aufpices of the HUMANE SOCIETY, founded in 1774, re-animated the elay, and restored the breath of life.

In Holland, interfected by water, a regu lar Inftitution for the Recovery of Drowned Perfons was formed, about the year 1773; and the Amfterdam Memoirs tranflated by Dr. COGAN, while Dr. HAWES was planning a fimilar inftitution in England; these physicians uniting in sentiment, attempted an establishment, now univerfally known, under the name of the ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY of London; from whence have branched fimilar Societies in various parts of the world.

At the commencement of the Institution, it excited more ridicule than patronage; few individuals early entered into the original plan of the projectors; and the labour of the new Inftitution almoft exclufively fell upon

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