——— DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: The Nation's Protector. “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” IT Kings 6: 17. As it cost England many regiments and two million dollars a year to keep safely a troublesome captive at St. Helena, so the king of Byria sends out a whole army to capture one minister of religion—perhaps 50,000 men—to take Elisha. During the night the army of Assyrians came around the village of Dothan, where the prophet was staying, At early daybreak the man-servant of Elisha rushed In and sald: “What shall we do? thereis a whole army come to destroy you! We must die! we must die!” But Elisha was not scared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of SUPERNATURAL FORCES, and he knew that if there were 50,000 Assyrians against him there were 100,- 000 angels for him; and in answer to the prophet’s prayer in behalf of his affrighted man-servant, the young man saw It too. Horses of fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on bits of fire, and warriors of fire with brandished swords of fire, and the brilliance of that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the galloping splendors of the celestial cavalcade, ‘*And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” 1 have often spoken to you of the Assyrian perils which threaten our American institutions, I speak of the upper forces of the text that are te fight on our side. If all the low levels are filled with armed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains of our hope and courage and falth are full of the horses and chariots of Divine rescue. You will potice that the Divine equipage is always represented as a chariot of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when they come to describe the Divine equipage, always represent it as a wheeled, a harnessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a chariot like kings and conquerors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, justice, chastise- ment, deliverance through burning es- capes, Chariot of rescue? yes, but chariot of fire. All OUR NATIONAL DISENTHRALMENTS and red disasters, Through tribulation the individual rises, Through tribu- lation nations rise, Chariots of rescue, but chariots of fire. But how do I know that this Diviue equipage is on the side of our Institutions? I know It by the history of the last one hundred and eight years. The American Revo- lution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence Hall in 1776. The colonies, without ships, without ammunition, without guns, without tramed warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side, the mightiest nation of the earth the largest armies, the grandest navies,’ and the most distinguished command. ers, and resources inexhaustible, and uearly all nations ready to back them up in the fight. Nothing, as against immensity. The cause of the American colonies, which started at zero, dropped still lower through the quarreling of the generals, and through the fealousies at small successes, and through the win- ters which surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of congeal- ment. Elisha surrounded by the whole Assyrian army did not seem to be the worse off than did THE THIRTEEN COLONIES encompassed and overshadowed by for- eign assault. What decided the contest in our favor? The upper forces, the upper armies. The Green and White mountains of New England, the High. lands along the Hudson, the moun- tains of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full of reinforcements which the young man Washington saw by faith; and his men endured the frozen feet, amd the gangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, and the long march, because ‘‘the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountaing were full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha” Washington himself was a miracle, What Joshua was in sacred history, the first American president was in secular history. A thousand other men excelled him in different things, but he excelled them all in roundness and [completeness of character, The world never saw his like, and probably will never see his like again, because ‘here probably never will be another such exigency. He was let down a Divine interposition. He was from God direct, I do not know bow any man can read the history of those times without wimitting the contest was decided by the upper forces. Then, Ix 1861, when our civil war opened, many at the North and at the South pronounced it national suicide. It was not courage agsipst cowardice, it was net wealth against poverty, it was not large States against small States. It was herolsm sgainst heroism, It was the resources of many generations against the re- sources of generatious, It was the prayer of the North against the prayer of the South, it was one-half of the sation In armed wrath, meeting the sther half of the nation in armed in- ito Av the opening of the war the com- mander-in-chiel of the United States lorces was 14 who bad been great 10 battle, IS 414 4 Ot many a : & right to bi a Te ‘gould not’ horse and he on the field in asking driver determination thal the world had neve: seen marshaled. And what but extermination could come when Phillp Sheridan and Btonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney John- ston rode in from North and South, and Grant and Lee, the two thunder- bolts of battle, clashed? Yet, wa are a nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly courage did not decide the conflict, The upper forces of the text. They tell us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout Mountain; but there was something higher than that, Again, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of this nation in 1876, at the close of a Presidential election famous for ferocity. A DARKER CLOUD YET settled down upon this nation, The result of the election was in dispute, and revolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution In every town and village and city of the United States seemed imminent. The pros. pect was that New York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and Boston, Boston, and Savanna, Savannah and Washing- ton, Washington. Some said Mr, Tilden was elected; others sald Mr. Hayes was elected; and how near we came to unl- versal massacre some of us guessed, but God only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the honesty and righteousnes of infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the upper forces of the text. Charlots of mercy rolled in, and though the wheels were not heard, and the fash was not seen, yet all through the mountains of the North and the South and the East and the West, though the hoofs did not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by, I tell you God is the friend of this nation. In the awful excitement at the massa- cre of Lincoln, when there was a pros- pect that greater slaughter would open upon this nation, God hushed the tempest, In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield's assassi- nation, God put His foot on the neck of the cyclone. To prove GOD IS ON TUE SIDE OF THIS NATION, I argue from the last eight or nine great national harvests, and from the national health of the last quarter of a century, epidemics very exceptional, and from the great revivals of religion, and from the spreading of the Church of God, and from the continent bloss. oming with asylums and reformatory fustitutions, and from an Edenization which promises that this whole land is to be a paradise, where God shall walk If in other sermons I showed you whal was the evil that threatened to upset and demolish American instita- tions, I am encouraged more than I can tell as 1 see the regiments wheeling down the sky, and my jeremiads turn into doxologies, and that which was the Good Friday of the nation’s cruci- fixion becomes the Easter morn of its resurrection. Of course, God works { through human instrumentalities, and { this NATIONAL DETTERMENT 1s to come among other things through of tration it is almost inipossible | now to bave illegal voting. There was {a time—~you and I remember it very | well—when droves of vagabonds | wandered up and down on election {here, and voted there, and voted | everywhere, and there was no chal. | lenge; or, if there were, it amounted to { nothing, because nothing could so sud- | denly be proved upon the vagabonds, | borhood, every voler is watched with | severest scrutiny. I must tell the | registrar my name, and how old {I am. and how long I have resided | in the State, and how long I have resi- i ded in the ward or the township, and if I misrepresent, filly witnesses will {rise and shut me out from the ballot- box. i And then notice the law that prohibits | a man voting if he has bet on the elec- jtion. A step further needs to be | taken, and that man forbidden a vote | who has offered or taken a bribe, { whether it be in the shape of a free { drink, or cash paid down, the suspic- { tous cases obliged to put thelr hand on the Bible and swear their vote in if { they vote at all, So, through the sa- redemption will come, GOD WILL SAVE THIS NATION through an aroused moral sentiment, There has never been 80 much discus. sion of morals and immorals. Men, whether or not they acknowledge what is right, have to think what 1s right, have men who have had their hands in the public treasury the most of thelr lifetime, stealing all they could lay thelr hands on, discoursing eloquently about dishonesty in public servants; and men with two or three families of their own, preaching eloquently about the beauties of the seventh command- ment. The question of sobriety and dmokenness 18 thrust In the face of this nation as never before, and takes a part in our political coun- tests, The question of national sobri- ely is going to be respectfully and deferentially heard at the bar of every Legislature, and every House of Rep- resentatives, and every United States Senate; and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again, saylng to these rising tides of drunkenness which threaten to whelm home and church and nation: “Thus far shalt thou come, bat no fur- ther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.” I have not in my mind a shadow of disheartenment as large as the shadow of & housetly’s wing, My faith is in the upper forces, the upper armies of the text. Gods not dead! The chari- ots are not unwheeled. If you would only pray more, and wash your eyes in the cool, bright water fresh from the well of Christian reform, it would be said of vou, as of this one of the text: “ The Lowd opened the eyes of the oung man, he saw; and behold {be noountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” When the army of Antigonus went into battle his soldiers were very much discouraged, and they rushed up to the General and sald to hum: *'Don’t you ses we have a few forces, and they have 80 many more?’’ and the soldiets wets affrightas] at the smallness of their number and the greatness of the snemy, Atigonus, their commander, stralght- ened himself up and sald: “How many do you reckon me to be?’ And when we see the vast armies arrayed agalnst THE CAUSE OF SOBRIETY it may sometimes be very discouraging, but I ask you in making up your esti- mate of the forces of righteousness—I ask you how many do you reckon the Lord Almighty to be? He 18 our commander. The Lord ef Hosts is His name, 1 have the best authority for saying that the chariots of God are twenty thousand, and the mountains are full of them, You will take without my saying It that my only faith is in Christianity and in the upper forces suggested in the text. Political parties come and go, and they may be right, and they may be wrong; but God lives, and I think He has ordained this nation for a career of prosperity that no dema- gogism will be able to halt, 1 expect to live to see a political party which will have a platform of two planks— the Ten Commandments and the Ser- mon on the Mount. When that party is formed it will sweep across this land like a tornado, I was going to say, but when I think it is not to be devastu- tion but resuscitation, I change the fig- ure and say, such a party as that will sweep across this land like spice gales from heaven. Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make DECENT AMERICAN POLITICS? At every yearly or quadrennial elec- tion we have In this country greal maufactories—manufacturies of lies; and they are run day and night, and they turn out hall a dozen a day all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies. Iles private and hes public and lies prurient, Liles cut Dblas, and lies cut diagonal Looglimbed lles, and lies with double back action. Lies cowpli- mentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people belleve, and lies that all the people believe, and lies that nobody believes, Iles with humps like camels, and scales like crocodiles, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as an antelope’s, and stings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. les with attachment screws and rufflers and braiders and ready-wound bobbins, Lies by Christian people who never lle except during elections, and lies by people who always lle, but beal them- selves in a Presidential campaign. I confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country In such times, I should thTok he would stand dazed, bis hand on his pockelbook, | and dare not go out nights, What | will the hundreds of thousands of for- | eigners who come here to live think of ius? What a disgust they must have | for the land of their adoption! The { only good thing about it is, many of | of them cannot understand the Eng- | lish language. But I suppose the Ger- {man and Italian and Swedish and | French papers translate it all, and peddle ors. Nothing but Christianity will ever | stop such a flood of indecency. The { Christian religion will speak after a { while, The billingsgate and low scan. | dal through which we wade every year | or every four years, must be rebuked | by that religion which speaks from its { two great mountains, from the one | mountain intoning the command, | “Thou shalt not bear false witness | against shy neighbor,” and from the other mount making plea for Kindness and blessing rather than cursing, Yes, | We are going to have : A NATIONAL RELIGION, | There are two kinds of national re. | ligion. The one is supported by the | State, and is a matter of human poil- ‘ties, and it has great patronage, and under It men will strugele for promi | nence without reference to qualifica- tions, and its archbishop 18 supported {vy a salary of $75,000 a year, and | there are great cathedrals, with all the machinery of music and canonicals, | audience of Gfty people, or | people, or ten, of two | such national religion; bul ve want this kind of national religlon—the | yast majority of the people converted | and evangelized, and then they will | manage the secular as well as lhe re- | ligious. Do you say that this Is impractic ible? No. The ume is coming just as cer- tainly as there is a God, and that this iis His book, and that He bas the | strength and the honesty to fulfil His promises, One of the ancient emperors used to pride himself on performing that which his coansellors said was impossible, and I have to tell you to-day that man's impossibles are God's easies. “Hath He sald, and shall He not do it? Hath He com. manded, and will He not bring it to pass?’’ The Obristian religion is com- ing to take possession of every balloi- box, of every school house, of every home, of every valley, of every moun. tain, of every acre of our national domain. This nation, notwithstanding all the evil influences that are trying to destroy it, is going to live. Never since, according to John Mil. ton, when “*Satan was hurled headion flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down,” have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as now. WHAT A JEWEL IT I8 —a Jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic Ocean, dividing us from the worn-out governments of Enrope. Un the other side the Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of wus the Arctic Sea, which is the gymna- sium in which explorers and naviga- tors develop their kL A continent 10,500 miles long 17.000,000 square miles, and all of it but about one-seventh capable of rich cultivation, One hundred millions of population on this continent of Ni and South carrying life all through and out to the extremities, Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist of a giant continent, all to be under one government, and ALL FREE, AND ALL CHRISTIAN, and the scene of Christ's personal reign on earth if, according to the ex- pectation of many good people, ie shall at last set up His throne io this world, Who shall bave this hemis. phere, Christ or Satan? Who shall have the shore of her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colora- dos, the telescopes of her observatories, the brain of her universities, the wheat Terra del Fuego and from Behring Straits *0o Caps Horn —and all the moral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests of a population vast beyond all human computation? Who shall have the hemisphere? You and I will decide that, or help to decide it, by conscien- tious vote, by earnest prayer, by main- tenance of Christian institutions, by support of great philanthropies, by putting body, mind, and soul on the right side of all moral, religious, and national movements. Ah! it will not be long before It will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes of this continent, so far as earthly comfort is concerned. All we will want of 1t will be seven spare, That is all of this country we will nead very soou-—-the youngest of us, But we have an anxisty about the welfare and the happiness of the will be a grand thing if, when the archangel’s trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulchre, like the one Joseph of Arimathea provided for Christ, 1s in the midst of a garden, THE NAME IN THE ROCK. One of the seven world was the white tower of Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus, ing that watch-tower, cut his name on it. Then he covered It with plaster- ing, and to please the King, he put the plastering; and the storms beat and the sens dashed In their fury, and they washed off the plastering, and they washed it out, ana they washed deep cut in the so Across the face of nation there have been a great many names written, across our fipan- ces, across our religions, names worth of remembrance names written on architecture of our churches and our schools and our asylums and our houies of mercy ; but God is the architect of unperishable rock. of all its grandeurs ; and long after— through the wash of the ages and the tempests of centuries—all other names and brighter as the millenniums go by, and the world shall see who made this coutinent has from all its crimes. HAVE YOU FAITH in such a thing as that? After all the chariots have been pled, the chariots which Elisha saw on heaven on white horses. | weakest of us, the smallest brained of us, shall have a part In the triumph. We may nol have our name, like the name of Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and conspicuous for ries, but we shall be remembered, in a better place than that, even in the | heart of Him who came to redeem us { and redeem the world, and our names | will be seen close to the signature of i My hand.” By the mightiest of all | agencies, the potency of prayer, 1 beg i you seek our national welfare, A MARINE POST OFFICE, Some time ago there were 4,600,000 ; letters in the dead letter post office at Washington-—letters that lost their way —but not one prayer ever directed to the heart of God miscarried. The way is all clear for the ascent of your supplications heavenward in behalf of this pation. Before the postal com- munication Was so easy, and long ago, on a rock one hundred feet high, on the coast of England, there was a jetters on the side of ths rock, so it could bs seen far out at sea, were the words “Post Office,” and when ships deposits of affection in that barrel that no lock was ever pat upon that barrel, although it contained messages for Africa, and all the 1slands of Lhe sea, Many a storm-tossed sailor, homesick, got messages of kindness by thai rock, and many a homestead heard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights of our national prosperity were In Interchange of sym- pathies—prayers going up meeting blessings coming down: postal celes- tial. not by a storm-struck rock on a wintry coast, but by the Rock of Ages, Drinking-water.—FProfessor Angell, of Michigan University, furnishes the following as a test of the purity of drinking water: ‘Dissolve about half a teaspoonful of the purest white sugar in a pint bottle completely full of the water to be tested, and tightly stopped; expose it to daylight and a temperature up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. After a day or two examine, holding the bottle against something black, for whitish floating specks, which will betray the nee of organic matter in cons ider- able proportion. ”’ A door that opens automatically on utting a coin in the slit has recently n brought out. The door is made double, each hall being I. shaped and hinged at the angle. They are closed and held fast by a lock which unlocks when the coin actuates it and the dvor opens. It closes again after the person enters, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Buspay May 19, 189, The Lord's Supper. LESSON TEXT. (Mark MH : 12-26. Memory verses, 22.21) LESSON PLAN. Toric or Tur QUARTER ; iahing His Work. GorLpes Texr vor tae Quanren: [ Juri glorifis d thee on the carth, having aceomplishe d the sword which thou hast hn 17 : 4 Jesus Fin given me to do Jo Lesson Topi The Privilege fle me mili ring. GoLpex Text : brance of me. Linke 22 ; Dairy Home Beapinos ; M.—Mark 14 of remembering T.—Matt. 26 17-80 parallel narrative Luke 22 : 7-30. Luke's lel narrative. T.—1 Cor. 11 ;: 23.34 rative of the Supper F.—John 13 : 1-30 A Supper. BS. ( 14 : 1 Supper Jobn 17 Sup r Matt} Ww Paul's nar- 2] Ss. LESSON ANALYSIS. I. CAREFUL I. The Memorial Day: The ficed the passover (12 * PREPARATION, first day, when (Exod. 12 : 14). lemember this day, in which out from Egypt (Exod. 13 : 3). Remember the day when thou cames forth (Deut, 16 : 3 r were the d bread (Acts 12 : 3 A large upper room: there shall ye eat un- ned bread Lhe passos IX s the gunest-char at? { Luke PA ' CRAY i keep 3 . wlinil « for another (1 ( r {16 the LHR They made re Take your lan over (Exod Seven days thon shalt bread (Exod, 13 3 sch MIY thi Passov AA Kili is 1 ; ’ : “- -d i The co mpany; (3 CTVIoH The expected ser- [he prescribed prepara- CANDID DISCLOSURE iI. The Lord's Knowledge: Verily 1 say unto you, shall betray me (18 Behold he 1s at hand that betrsveth me (Matt. 26 : 46). : The hand of him that ...on the table {Luke 22 Jesus knew who it betray him (John 6 knew hin (John 13 il 11. The Disciples’ Bewilderment: 1 hey In AN to by one, Ist i? In gf You betrayeth 1s 21). was that should 64). that should betray hax * Po "uy Posen « } SAay un aim « 19) e Jat dl ya anathor, No man at the table knew for what in- tont he spake this (John 13 : OF). It i he th th with the dish (20 He ath unto him, Thon { Matt 2h it dippe me in 5 hast =aid Dn . wy with a kiss? (Luke 22 : 48 it is, for whom 1 shall (John 13 : 26). thou 13 : 27 1. “When it was evening he cometh with the twelve.” (1) Keeping his appointment; (2) Honoring the Passover: (3) Nearing his doom. “Ono you shail betray me.” The betrayal (1) As a subject of prophecy; (2) As an event in his tory; (3) As an element in destiny gq. «Is it I?" (1) Serious concern; (2) Honest doubt? (3) Wise ANGUIry. — (1y Sonrees of dould; (2) Settlement of doubt. 111. SIGNIFICANT COMMEMORATION, 1. Of the Passover: As they wore eating (22). The Lord's passover, who passed over the houses. . . .of Térael (Exod. 12:27). Tt shall be for a sign unto thee (Exod. 13 1 9). For thon camest forth out of the land of Egypt (Deut. 16 : 3), Our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ (1 Cor. 5: 7). 11. Of Christ's Body: This is my body (23). Take, dat; this is my body (Matt. 26 : 26). This is my body which is given for you (Like 22 : 1¥). -- dip the sop quickly John LE] This is my bods, which is for you (1 Con 11:44). As oftén ns yo eat this bread, . . . er claim the Lord's death ( r. 11 : 26). 111, Of Christ's Blood: This is my blood of the covenant (24). My blood... shed for ne - As often as ye... drink the cup, ye pro- claim the Lord's death (1 Cor. 11:28), 1. *“Tuke ye, this is my body.” (1) The symbolista of the bread; (2) The spirit of the communicants. , “This is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many.” (1) The shed blood: (23 The confirmed covenant: (8) The resulting bless ing 3. “They w Olives.” The acred mount; vening journey ent out (1) The unto the mount of wpper room 2 (8) The int —————— LESSON BIBLE READING, [AL OBBERVARCES OF THE PASSOVER, n leaving Egypt (Exod. 12 : 21-28 1 the wilderness of Sinai (Num. 9 1-5; (Josh. 5:10, 11) reign A. Chron. 30 1-26 In J os ah . (2 Chron. 3b ; Ezra. 6:1 t's betrayal reign 4 1-1 0.22 On the might of Chri Luke 22 : 7-16) uh -—— . ESSON SUBROUNDINGS The interval between tl i the Mount of Olives Passover meal was spent by our Lord the discourse and the last the Supper at Bethany during t! 8 Der iod ; see last lesson The sprocment of Judas with the 10. 11 hate been made shortly after the tring rulers (va mips Fhe Passover m ir Lord on Thurs still disputed whether this i gular time, 18, 14th of Nizar k., Matthew, and Luke state t t it the flicts in the t« was eaten by o but it is that ut sone Bere in Jol I NAave that our L. ervance of the feos ! are fully presented, r of the view, by Andrews, “Life of Our Lord;” and in favo in the Apx 5 Christ” (Excursu former dix to his “lLafe of Thi place of the Bs In hany, then in en upper room in Jer According to the view presen in the Burround- the time wi Thursday, 14th of (April 6), year of Rome 78,—A " Those who hold that our L lesson w» first 11 FER Lesson ngs, he Nisan i Passover celebration, the 13th of Nisan i Passa es Matthew 2 i ai In Ji hn ] 1 the same period of time ursday ¥ 11 "- i Arai 39 early all the details are differ Vecuniary Independence of Wives, Or SOTVIeH i nn the natur as faithfully rendered as i r is of the muscl and taxes that re Crvaln while hou Lers 18 ted to © may rest, unees er rest 1s snatched from her pres hat the three fold une wor, mother and dis- equivalent for the 2 sod, clothing and setter , Mara A cook 1s entat WHOS orien: 4 and MEOWIsSe, tress did # wi 40 # Cocertain sug a seamstress likewise, § their board guarants stipulated But the ™ an : ry AEH nurse likewise, and 1 i, their recomper wife, who comin ies all TieR who serves any and eve sapacity which need calls up, who may it her husband in his « mplo; - in addition to her own, whe n active but silent parte I ] stowed upon | donation, the sca: that her bods owns nothing—all 1 hing, for the nother, a1 } . BAERS ritx suppor lepends in ga-~—her husband ing attention and ce with existing con- right 15 no led, inalienabl quality is not cone ty not re spected No human being is endowed with the power, ni or privilege to protect another ction is inherent, and avery individual removed from child: hood and imbecility is sheathed in a natural defense—self protection. The ly protection which man pretends to vouchsafe to womasr is a defense against the consequences of his own aggression, tyranny and abuse, for women have ni . ene my in the woorid. In the household she has no safety — no redress—she is bound over to keep the peace, and can do no mpre despised thing than to make complaint when tried bevond endurance. She is a beg- gar of all beggars, a slave of all slaves, owning neither her home, her property, her tame, her children, nor _E It does not matter that the slave is some. times a favorite, and therefore indulg- ed: the condition of servitude i# the and this is the lot of married When wrong is suspects dd. her « her responsibil ro, t on other The usurpation which depresses and Woman is disowned as equal, The wife has no husband. elpmate, neither has the The alienation is both cases, Marriages should be en- tire, not partial. Reproduction is not limited to child-bearing, but the loving conjunction of all the attributes and in- spirations of the two natures will re. produce new virtues, new graces, new spiritual forces without limit or exhaus- tion. These twain were created in the i of the Father and he gave them a a Tet I ¥ are spiri ings, and not merely endowed with reason, but respective to devine intelli. 0 3 he power of regeneration is them; ¥ must hands and achieve it. go Pg Ae 1t is only wasted activily to ply the hammer the nail is driven.
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