God as a moral judge, will reward or punish all according to the measure of their capacities, the extent of their knowledge and the peculiarity of their means.  Justice will regard only what they have been able to be and do.  Those who have but the light of nature, will be accountable only for the improvement of that light.  It is an elevating, humane and genial sentiment, that all the wise, just, and beneficent throughout the globe will meet in blessedness.  Most degrading to christians and derogatory to the father of all, is our dooming the heathen to future wo.  Yet this has been raised to the dignity of an article of faith.  Is God's tender mercy over all his works, and yet is he partial, arbitrary and capricious ? - How small the number of christians compared with the other inhabitants of the earth! and the present occupants compared with unnumbered generations who lived and died before christianity ! These were all the children of God, and will he condemn them to punishment for not improving what they did not possess?  Will he withhold the terms of christianity, and then judge them by those terms?  No- it is impossible that God, whom all nature and revelation proclaim as a just and tender Parent should forget moral distinctions, and cast aside the virtue, integrity, temperance, usefulness and beneficence, which a heathen has cherished from a conviction of their reasonableness and utility.