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No Book In The World Deserves To Be So Unceasingly Studied, And So Profoundly Meditated Upon As The Bible.

It Is No Slight Testimonial, Both To The Merit And Worth Of Christianity, That In All Ages Since Its Promulgation The Great Mass Of Those Who Have Risen To Eminence By Their Profound Wisdom And Integrity Have Recognized And Reverenced Jesus Of Nazareth As The Son Of The Living God.

The Inconsistency Of The Institution Of Domestic Slavery With The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Was Seen And Lamented . . . No Insincerity Or Hypocrisy Can Be Fairly Laid To Their Charge. Never From Their Lips Was Heard One Syllable Of Attempt To Justify The Institution Of Slavery. They Universally Considered It As A Reproach Fastened Upon Them By The Unnatural Step-mother Country And They Saw That Before The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Slavery, In Common With Every Other Mode Of Oppression, Was Destined Sooner Or Later To Be Banished From The Earth.

Is It Not That In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of A Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior? That It Forms A Leading Event In The Progress Of The Gospel Dispensation? Is It Not That The Declaration Of Independence First Organized The Social Compact On The Foundation Of The Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? That It Laid The Cornerstone Of Human Government Upon The First Precepts Of Christianity?

The Experience Of All Former Ages Had Shown That Of All Human Governments, Democracy Was The Most Unstable, Fluctuating And Short-lived.