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love has cast all fear out of their hears-even the
fear OF sin, which is the last to be overcome.


The effects Of this Religion are as beBefcent as
they are mighty How clear is the spiritual Wis


ion, how unwavering the faith, of him who comes
under It's influence His trust in God, amid ali
| the mysterious phenomena of Nature, and leach
days report of wrong and outrage with which earth
is filed, is unreserved and constant. How is j,
possible, without the spiritual insight which such
Religion imparts, TO vindicate the character OF
God, and preserve the sou! in calmness amid the


worlds bowling ,enpests Look man. Con-
sider the desolations and the carnage of War. Be-
hold Affiuence and Poverty in the same street.
See the best men treated as the soorst; Jesus
crowned with thorns and Herod arrayed in pur-
pie and fine linen. Consider the calculating vii


lainy of professed Christian nations. Behold
Great Britain, enslaving the weak and defenceess


people of India, butchering the Chinese for their
unwingness to be poisoned; making civilization,
as it were, synonymous with carnage and saught-
er while thousands in the Emerald isle are stary-
ing to death in the midst Of ah1uence and plenty


Look, too, at home-at counuy-whose
watchword is, All men are free F" Think of
the three millions of men who are regarded as a
masters goods, and of the hideous coil Of wrongs
and outrages under which they groan Think of
all this and more thou man without Religion
and wilt thou not tremble and turn pale These
are questions arising from such phenomena, which
the wisest man, ,cith nothing J,h ,cisdom, cannot
answer; but Religion arches her rainbow in the
midst of these dark clouds and over these yawn-
ing chasms; and the annointed soul perceives that
perfect optimism watches all, and that no
evil, in the end, goes unwhipt of Justice. The
heart knows it if the head does not. He feels
himself drawn toward all Of his race by the
very causes which, operating upon one who turns
away from this unerring light, produce that state
of human sefshness which prompted the sent-
ment-


"Of all my fathers house love myself the best


If can have my wish, TIE D>uit take the rest"


The Religious man knows the truth revealed to
saints of old, that mans happiness consists not
IN the abundance of things which he possesseth
Those great spiritual truths, which fit before the
worldly man Apparitions, are to him living Re-
alities He loves God more from loving man much.
No duty seems to him low or unimportant. He
sees every day new beauties in Nature, well as
in the Soul; and to him nothing is beautiful that
is not good. If he is betrayed, he forgives and
loves on. He is no less than he seems to be, and
here is but one will between him ana God. The
helmet Of Faith is over his head-that Faith which
begins where perfect knowledge ends. While the
worldly man has Faith in nothing save Money,
he Religious man has Faith in Man, and absve
all in God. This is the secret of his strength
ne trusts God with the same confidence with
which he believes that two and two make four. To
trust him is to kno,c him-to know him is TO do
MS will for it is he that doeth his will. that shall
know of the doctrine whether it be of God Such
a Religion is much adapted to the soul as hear.
ing to the ear, or seeing to the eve. To be Relig-
ious, in this sense, is to be Man. Mercenary
Priests and Orators not men. The Chrlstlanl-
" of the sects is not fit for thinking men. 1t mar.
rows the field of the Souls vision, and would fair
persuade you tha, all that is be known of God Is
embodied in the creeds. But not all the saints in
both Testaments and in all the Churches have OK
harsted the stores Of Divine knowledge. New dis
coveries will yet be made by the faithful for God
waiteth to be revealed. The mysteries of Divine
wisdom are revealed to babes-to all those who
are weak and of lowly heart-to the patient do
ers of the word. Blessed is he who opcneth the
book which God spreads before him, and readeth
the sublime lessons on its living page. The Grea,
Teacher, eighteen hundred years ago, said nothing
of Theology; let US therefore look and pass BY
As the orange. tree is stintcd in the winters con-
servatory, SO Religion can nave but asicky growth
in such an atmosphere. But see how vigorously
it thrves in the obedient soul, even in the midst
of the cold winds and SHOWS of life. See how it
comes 10 visit the poor woman in lonely street,
pouring its blessed light through the rent walls OF
her hungry home. See in her an example of pa
tience and abiding trust which aba.hes The sinful
man and makes him feel that he is on holy ground.
Genius is rare gift, but all the mysteries of Re-
igion are open to every soul. They are not re-
vealed all at once, but slowly and gradually as day
succeeds night.


Have you the Diamond You can answer,
The opportunity, the power to possess it, isyours
Alas by how many is the opportunity lost How
many move about among the mighty works of
God as the clown would traverse with listless eye
and needless step, some wondrous hall, whose
alcoves are stored with all the wisdom OF the ages,
and whose walls echo the most enchanting music
that ever ravished the mortal ear Religion comes
TO them only as the pale moonbeam falls upon the
waters of dark, black river; not as the Sun,
which sends forth his rarifyiDg influences con-
day by day. Their Piety is like the
summer torrent, which sweeps every thing before
it at nghtfall; but come the next morning, and
you shall find nothing but sharp stones and bowed
grass to mark the course it ran. True Religions
a crystal stream, ever pure end shining and run
ming to the great ocean of Eternity Ot that
stream, drink and be filed ! REvILo


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