This engraving represents, first of all, the divine Charity of the ever blessed Redeemer. He left the glories and happiness of heaven to visit our diseased, our lost world. Beaming with love, melting with tenderness, filled with benevolence, on the wings of compassion he flew to our relief. How compassionate! how sympathizing! He becomes a slave himself that he may preach deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison doors to them which are bound, and that he might proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. See Him at his work of mercy. The world is an aceldama, a vast Lazar house, a conquered province, subject to sin and death. He scatters health around him; he gives eyesight to the helpless blind; he bids the lame to walk; the hungry he fills with good things; the very dead he restores to life and joy. He beholds the weeping widow, and hastens to wipe away her tears. He visits the house of mourning and fills it with the song of praise.

Behold Him ascend the Mount of Blessing. He takes his seat; heavenly light shines- around him; the majesty of holiness encircles his brow. Love, divine love, looks out from his wondrous eyes; the manna of wisdom drops from his lips; he assembles around him the poor-the mourners-the persecuted, and showers upon them the blessings of an endless life. He rescued the conquered province from the grasp of the foe; destroyed the power of death, and opened unto man the portals of immortal Life. wept that man might smile; he bled that man might never die; he seized our dreadful right, the load sustained, and hove the mountain from our guilty world.” He established his Church as an Hospital for the spiritually diseased; appointed his own ministers and officers; gave his own laws for the guidance thereof, and having perfected his work of Charity, he ascended

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again to the mansions of bliss, there to see the effects "of the travail of his soul and be satisfied." As was the divine Founder, such is the religion he established. Christianity is a noble system of Charity. It teaches man to feel another's woe; to seek another's good; to breathe, instead of revenge, forgiveness and affection; for the aged, the halt, the maimed and the blind, it erects asylums of comfort and repose; for the suf fering and the sick, Hospitals; and above all, taking into account man's spiritual wants, man's deathless interests as a candidate for eternity, it provides temples for religious worship, where the ignorant may be instructed, the guilty pardoned, the polluted sanctified, and made meet for heaven. Other religions are a fable-a delusion-a shadow. Christianity is alone benevolent; in its Founder, in its essence, and in its operations, intensely benevolent.

Infidelity, in all its appeals, professes Charity and benevolence. What have its apostles done to benefit mankind? In what book are their "Acts" recorded? To what lands have they carried the blessings of civi. lization? what prisons have they opened? what chains have they snapt asunder? where are the tombs of their martyrs? where the trophies of their success? Infidelity is cruel, earthly, sensual and devilish. Witness its day of triumph in France. True, it opened the doors of the Bastile, but it was only to lead the inmates to the guillotine. It demolished the walls, but it was only to build out of the ruins thereof a hundred dungeons, if possible still more gloomy and terrible. The reign of Infidelity is the "reign of terror." "The infant comes into the world without a blessing, the aged leaves it without hope.' The house of mercy is closed; the book of mercy is burnt; the ministers of mercy are slaughtered; the God of mercy is banished; yea, a watch is set upon

the tomb that the dead may rise no more. Infidelity

"like Samson in his wrath,

Plucking the pillars that support the world,
Fair Charity in ruins lies entombed,

"And midnight, universal midnight reigns.”

As is the founder of Christianity, and as is Christianity itself, such also is the disciple; he goes about doing good; he is the Jordan in its fullness; he, like the Nile, leaves behind him the seeds of a new creation; he seeks out the helpless and the destitute; he visits the widows and the fatherless in their affliction, and soothes and wipes away their tears; he understands and appreciates the heaven-born sentiment, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Hence, "when the ear hears of him it blesses him, when the eye sees him it gives witness for him, and the blessing of him that was ready to perish comes upon him.'

The disciple however views man in his relation to both worlds, as possessing a deathless spirit; as a candidate for eternity; as an ignorant, helpless and guilty sinner, unholy and unclean, and yet redeemed by the blood of Christ. He will, as far as possible, instruct his ignorance and point him to the Savior. True Charity acts from motives of love to God as well as man. Hence ingratitude does not restrain him, nor opposition make him afraid. He lays up a foundation against the time to come; and when he shall have sown the seeds of Benevolence here, he will reap a harvest of everlasting love; for "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"True Charity, a plant divinely nursed,

Yet by the love from which it rose at first,
Thrives against hope, and, in the rudest scene,
Storms but enliven its unfading green.
Exuberant is the shadow it supplies,

Its fruits on earth, its growth above the skies,
To look at him, who formed us and redeemed,
So glorious now, though once so disesteemed,
To see a God stretch forth his human hand,
To uphold the boundless scenes of his command;
To recollect that in a form like ours,

He bruised beneath his feet the infernal powers;
Captivity led captive, rose to claim

The wreath he won so dearly in our name.
Like him the soul, thus kindled from above,
Spreads wide her arms of universal love;
And, still enlarged as she receives the grace,
Includes creation in her close embrace."

"Charity is placed at the head of all the Christian virtues by St. Paul, the ablest divine that ever graced a pulpit or wielded a pen. It is the sub-stratum of philanthropy, the brighest star in the Christian's diadem. It spurns the scrofula of green-eyed jealousy, the canker of tormenting envy, the tortures of burning malice, the typhoid of foaming revenge. It is an impartial mirror, set in the frame of love, resting on equity and justice. It is the foundation and cap stone of the climax of all the Christian graces-without it, our religion is like a body without a soul-our friendships, shadows of a shadow-our alms, the offsprings of pride, or, what is more detestable, the offerings of hypocrisy-our humanity, a mere iceberg on the ocean of time-we are unfit to discharge the duties of life, and derange the design of our creation. Wars and rumors of wars would cease-envy, jealousy, and revenge, would hide their diminished heads falsehood, slander, and persecution would be unknown-sectarian walls, in matters of religion, would crumble in dust. Pure and undefiled religion would then be honored and glorified-primitive Christianity would stand forth, divested of the inventions of men, in all the majesty of its native loveliness-the victories of the cross would be rapidly achieved-and the bright day be ushered in, when Jesus shall rule, King of nations, as he now does King of saints."-Probe.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Prov xvi. 18. He giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.