four millions of slaves; in 1880, the attempted destruction of a Christian education.

The growths of nations and their fixtures, good or bad, are by generations of thirty years to a decisive period. The destruction of nations is in consequence of the violation of God's Word and the resulting habits of irreligion, atheism, and unbelief. And one generation, with the heritage of such examples and habits, may secure the execution of the penalty. And as surely as God has said, "ALL SOULS ARE MINE," and, "The nation and kingdom that will not obey my Word shall perish;" so surely will God judge legislators and nations, not merely as perishable bodies, but as responsible for immortality and eternity.

The Culminating Dishonor of the Century. "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?" The insult of such despotism is doubly against God and his Word, with his universal law in it, requiring that Word to be preached and taught freely in all languages to all nations. And the forbiddance of such teachings is the latest form of such insult against God and cruelty towards man, as practised and commanded by the United States Government against the helpless remnant of In

dians still surviving! It is the crown of our centennial, republican, and self-glorifying grandeur, containing in its bosom an atheistic sacrifice of the more than fifty years of missionary labor, just beginning to be so successful in the Christian training of aboriginal tribes, now forbidden to read the Word of God in the same language in which they were born! Forbidden by a government and people that have continued for a hundred years to violate the treaties sworn to be observed for the protection of the aboriginal possessors of lands and homesteads within the United States, and for their preservation in all the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, guaranteed to all men in our Declaration of Independence.

The Responsibilities of Nations by their Generations.

Each generation on earth is responsible for the character of the next, a principle of righteousness that cannot be denied or disregarded. For it is not a matter of mere individual sin: it is what we ourselves will do with the power put into our hands to make others sin,what we will do to future generations, who will assuredly be guilty or innocent in this one mighty domain of human infamy and transgression, taught by precept and example just as we may decide.

It is we who are now the lawgivers, who write grievousness which we may prescribe as physicians of the Evil One to settle the principles and habits of our constitution, commissioned to inoculate a whole kingdom with the plague, we who undertake to turn aside the poor from his right,we who declare in the presence of Almighty God that not His righteousness but our own injustice shall preside over the affairs of the nation; that not humanity and freedom, but inhumanity and oppression, shall characterize our laws, our morals, our religion.

How instructive are the scientific warnings in Nature, from experience of the consequences of a waste of timbered lands not renewed by planting! Whole mountain ranges denuded, and desert, uninhabitable plains inherited as the result. Even so, cutting away from one generation the timber of God, the forests that have grown up with their roots in his Word and in faith, not only neglecting to set new trees in the same soil, but forbidding such a process, on the plea of a liberal conscience against a divine revelation, whole nations will be morally and intellectually desolated. The wise and prudent shall perish; and none shall be left for rulers but fools, or mad Nebuchadnezzars, who must be turned out to feed upon their own grasses,

in order to learn that they have made themselves brutes.

All the sciences on earth will not supply the want of an education and vital growth and discipline in God's Word. We might as well attempt to timber our naked mountains by wood-ashes on our garden-plants, or guano on our hot-house flowers. How long can men such as Hooker and Howe, Cudworth and Castell, Walton and Lightfoot, Milton, Newton, and Sir William Jones, Leighton and Luther, Knox and Cromwell, Bunyan and Baxter, continue as a "survival of the fittest," when the deep soil itself is abraded by a profound and perpetually active unbelief; when the planting of the soil for Heaven, and the seed for it, are both forbidden by law? What wondrous opportunities of victory in these conflicts God hath put in our power, and grace to use them if we would obey Him, as the greatest of our blessings and privileges!

For perhaps there is not another world in God's universe where this central battle is going on, or being fought out for God by sinful beings once in rebellion against Him; and perhaps no world where so much may be done by little creatures and small means, for His glory and the good of intelligent souls, on so infinite a scale, with demonstration of

infinite consequences. And yet regenerated persons, in the image of Christ, with the love of Christ as their motive, and the truth as it is in Jesus their weapon and their capital, may become the greatest and most powerful of all the actors employed by him with the greatest means ever possible in any world! Take the case of the Apostle Paul: "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."

Where could even angels have made a more thrilling, animating sacrifice than the poor widow with her two mites, her whole living? Oh, how little sense or adequate conception we have of the part we are all playing, even by merely existing in a world like this, merely passing through it worthily to another! The manner of the passage tells for ETERNITY; and this being the case, even Paul the Preacher had to exclaim, "Who is sufficient for these things?"

But any common philosopher, even of secularism, would be sufficient, if there were no eternal consequences, no absolute immortality, the responsibility of which every soul must bear.

Now, we affirm that no greater outrage against God's government can be committed, none more blasphemous against his law of love, none more