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begins 10 arrest the Christians mind; and
he feels the fuIlness OF Gods glory per-
vading his overjoyed soul. joyful, indeed,
must it be to the humble follower OF Chris:
TO look through the golden vistas OF heav-
emily anticipation, and behold the consum-
mutton of millennial glory. Dark, indeed,
have been the ages past Night has fol-
lowed night, in heightened gloom. War
rose on war, and millions me. an awful
doom. Bloody prosecutions hurled their
legions down to death; add man seemed
bert on mans destruction. The christian,
oppressed in silent grief, witnessed with
hope abridged, the ruined multitude; when
nooght but power Omnipotent could save
a sin-bound world from dark annihia-
TONS dreary tomb. Butthe Son Of Right
eousness. like Orienrs King. spread his
broad streaks Of living light, clasped in
his embrace the moral dawn, and arose
10 angelic loveliness, with healing in his
beams. The proclamation Of PEACE
and good will TO man resounded in SER
e7hic tones on the plains Of Judea; and
christians rejoiced in the adorable prospect
OF salvation from sin.
The precepts which the Savior gave
are, love your enemies-do good TO them
that hate you pray for them that despite
fully use you, and prosecute you. And
for what! Why must we do good to those
that do injury to us2 That we may be
the children Of our Father which is in
Heaven. For He maketh Ills sun to rise
on the evil and on the good and sendeth
rain on the just and on the unjust. Can
the true minister Of Jesus preach peace,
and encourage war? Can he preach re-
penlance, and wink at Sin? Can be preach
submission to injury, and resist evil! Can
he preach love 10 enemies, and hurl foes
to destruction! Can he do all these and
b. consistent
Pauialists and universities quarrel
about particular doomas, and abou. the
tendency OF their several doctrines, but
they come to the same result in practice
Each accuses the other of advocating a
iceniious and demoralizing doctrine; and
both indulge much in that which tends tc
RIGHTEOUSNESS and immortality. They are
ready to co operate IN celebrating acts o
wholesale murder of thousands cf human
beings. Whether the souls Of the sIair
go direct 10 heaven, or immediately to hell
that is Of no consequence. so long as they
pre- swept from the face OF the earth. The
more souls destroyed. the more matter fol
rejoicing. Exerminalc, is the word
Burn, sink, and destroy. are the grand
wa!ch-words Of brlligerent christian ma
tons. How absurd How unholy. How
different are the teachings of Christ from
those of human teachers. Aud how IN
like the government Of Christ, to lunar
governments. Christians must adhere L
the examples OF Christ, and not 10 those o
man - be led by Christ, and not by man
Il is the duty Of the true christian to suffe
wrong. rather than do wrong. To NEE
every affecting trial with neekssubmis:
ion, and Christ-like reconciliation. L
avoid the temptations of worldly ambition
and the uncertain honor and applause {
mortaIs. To walk through the dark va
lev of the shadow Of death, fearing n
evil, trusting 10 God. Traversing tn
dreary deserts Of This lif., hoping in Chris
Flowing The murky waves OF time, h
\ guiding star, the Savior, anticipating brig
fields Of celestial glory beyond the swell
ing Jordan Pressing onward & onward
10 the fair haven OF eternal felicity. lea
ing the vain and transitory shadows
frail mortality, unsorrowing the separatio
Watching from the towers Of holy Zio
with hallowed anxiety the first glimm
Of the millennel morn. II. Porter
E. Randolph, DeczSi, 1912.
LETTER FROM JOHN oRvIs.