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has been baptsed in blood while crossing
over to greater liberty and brighter
hopes, but it has crossed and today is GO
ing up to the Citadel of the King of
Kings, and preparing its Hosanna to the
Redeemer who has delivered it from
bondage. They go forward brethren to
the full enjoyment of yonr great heritage,
to the full extent of your privileges, and
to the fullness of blessing. For he who
is for you is more than all that can be
against you. Foes have been vanquished,
and difficulties have been overcome and
here we are today in the full enjoyment
of freedom to worship God. Your past
do not know, as to how far you have
been brotherly, helpful, and saving
church. But what do l hear, voice
from the past saying go forward =? Yes,
and let this be your motto from today.
You need it to stand with those Baptist
churches, who in the past have stood for
liberty of conscience, freedom to worship
according to ones own conscience, aud
for an open Bible. This is true of all
Protestant Evangelical churches, but of
none more than the Baptist. Time was
when Baptist must hide his head, when
he must have signal men on the heights
to warn him when at worship against
priestly foes on horseback, and when for
one to say he was Baptist was to sac
rifice his position if not his life. But all
this has changed, and we have come into
heritage of freedom, blessing and hope
which has prospect bright with eternal
promise. And TO use an old phrase, here
you are today meeting under your own
vine and fig tree none daring to make you
afraid. What heritage How differ
ent from your brethren of the early days,
who were driven into alleys and back
places, who were target for all kinds
of clerical arrogance, and of whom it
might be said "they dwelt in dens and
caves of the earth" But you have a
house. name to live, and fellowship of
which YOU need not be ashamed. Go for
ward. You have come into noble heri-
tage, heritage bought with blood and
sacrifice, but full of blessings and prom.
Use. Your ancestry is noble one; first
in preaching with John the Baptist at
the head first in among missionary en-
tcrprise with VIM. Carey, the pioneer;
first among those who stood for an open
Bible, with free circulation, with Thos.
Charles of Bala, Wales, paving the way
for the British and Foreign Bible Socie-
ty the mother of the American and other
Societies. All these are a heritage of
which am proud, of which you may be,
and which should enthuse us with cour-
age to go forward, never looking back
only TO count the conqucsts the victories
ana the blessings of The past.
Once more, said Mr.. TAYLOR, this man
date comes to those who are seeking a
better country The country to which
the children of Israel were going was
one concerning which they had heard re-
ports calculated to inspire JOY and antici-
patton. 1t was a country where every
man should have his own inheritance,
where slavery would be unknown, where
there was perfect liberty-a goodly land,
land flowing with milk and honey-their
Fatherland. But how shall we compare
the temporal with the material, the spirit
ual with the eternal. There is hardly
any rule by which to compare it. The
one is infinitely better than the other
There, beyond the sea, the wilderness of
time, they who walk with Jesus shall en-
ter into his inheritance. There, is the
better country where they need no light
of the sun for the Lord God and the
Lamp are the light thereof. There, is
the Inheritance that will not pass away.
There, is the Kingdom in which the re-