First, suppose Copce does ovolye w perfect scheme of a Christian society; suppose the members of this Conforenes are so wise that they can do what all the nineteen Christian centuries have failed ta do, formulate an organization of Society, which embodies all thet constitutes Christfansty, without falling foul of the laws which is wholly a, Christian eroation from His Cross, on which He died for us. Christ's method is to go, on as Ho began, quietly. He was born in a stable! none of the groat ones in church and state know anything about; only a fow shepherds knew ib 'Ho glided, as it were, like sunbeam into' human life, And Ho is born in the hearts of men, and glides into the! ational life, and no one, knows! it, till some' dark corner in. it is full of light and men, surprised suy—The. Lord is here. gain, there is the example Jesus Christ. Christianity began by making, no striking change anywhere, that men could see. It was like the leaven, When He was here Ho ncoopted 1 while at the same sayin would turn "make all thin to-day. "With all her Church is leavening the world the more there are, who repent and believe" the quicker the world will be leavened, Dene A LITTUR THERE A LITTLE, Christ's Apostles, like wise men, followed their Master's method. They would have been big fools if they had Let it be known that they wore concocting a scheme change the, whole fabric of Roman society. They would soon have been in a fine peck of trouble. They would have been wiped out. But, instead, they preached "Repent yo; and be baptized overyof you" They got the units, three hundred years cap: tured the Empire. Paul never says. the slightest word oven to condemn slavery. No. Christianity. accepts the world as it is till a can mend it. Wo are apt to think we are Christinn in special senso, if we are always howling about the "sins of the world" and deploring this social evil and the other. Can grousers at the Gospel not sce, that the initial presupposition of Christanity, is that} the world is very sinful; that evil "is & gigantic powers "the imagination "of men's heart.
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