One - could go on a long time showing what the ultimate result of the rejection of Christian morals and of the influence of Christ comes to. Here is another of these advanced gentlemen, who have "given up Christianity." He is discussing the case of the backward races. And he has a cheerful proposition to make in regard to them, Te is this; "A very good ease can be made out by those writers who hold that races that cling incurably to barbarism ought to be painlessly extirpated or prevented {from multiplying." Nice and cheerfal for the backward races is that. suppose this advanced thought writer is thinking of the "lethal chamber" into which the humane owners of unwanted puppies put them instead of resorting to the old and brutal method of bucket of water. I think that if I belonged to a backward race I should prefer the method of the missionaries, who reach Jesus Christ, and who have Jsometimes waited 30 years before they have had a single cons vert, all because they had this singular faith, that this writer had, that there is simply no end to the grace and power of Jesus Christ. The consequence of which is, that it is absurd to be despondent about yourself, or about the poor "back-Ward races," or even about {ubvance races," who seem some-
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