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delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God." Rom. 8 :21. "They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters
cover the sea," Isa. 11 :9.
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"A better day is coming , a morning promised long,
When girded Right, with holy Might, will overthrow the
wrong;
When God the Lord will listen to every plaintive sigh,
And stretch His hand o'er every land, with justice by and by.
The boast of haughty Error no more will fill the air,
But Age and Youth will love the truth and spread it every-
where;
No more from want and sorrow will come the hopeless cry;
And strife will cease, and perfect peace will flourish by
and by.
Oh! for that holy dawning we watch, and wait, and pray,
Till o'er the height the morning light shall drive the gloom
away;
And when the heavenly glory shall flood the earth and sky,
We'll bless the Lord for all His Word, and praise Him by
and by."
No. XIII. Cruel to the Unsaved.
It is objected that it would be cruel for Christ to come
in Judgment upon the world, while there are so many mil-
lions unsaved.
"We answer, Is not such a declaration a presumptious
criticism of God's motives? Was the flood an expression
of cruelty, or rather was it not a manifestation of God's
love and mercy, toward them who should live after, in that
He swept away the great overflow of wickedness?
Surely
it was done in mercy. And now let us remember that this
The average of human
world DEES every thirty-three years.
life is even a little less than this. The world is in the power
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of the devil, and he has the power of death. He has
(128) 1 John 5:19. We know o f the same; that through death
that we are of God, and the he might destroy him that had
whole world lieth in the evil the power of death, that is, the
one. devil ;
(129) Heb. 2:14. Forasmuch 15. And deliver them, who
then as the children are par- through fear of death were all
takers of flesh and blood, he their lifetime subject to bondagn.
also himself likewise took part