These are they, O Lord! Who in thy plain and simple gospel see All mysteries, but who find no peace enjoined, No brotherhood, no wrath denounced on them Who shed their brethren’s blood! Blind at noon-day As owls; lynx-eyed in darkness.—_Southey._ Christianity has now been in the world upwards of ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS. For more than a thousand years the European nations have arrogated to themselves the title of CHRISTIAN! some of their monarchs, those of MOST SACRED and MOST CHRISTIAN KINGS! We have long laid to our souls the flattering unction that we are a civilized and a Christian people. We talk of all other nations in all other quarters of the world, as savages, barbarians, u…
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