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what reward have ye? do not even the publicans so?' "Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.' He also declared, 'All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

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life was in strict harmony with his precepts. He met the enmity of his persecutors with a lamb-like spirit; yet, in reproving them for their crimes, he was courageous as a lion. Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?' Nothing could intimidate, subdue or enslave him. Nailed as a felon to the cross, he supplicated for the forgiveness of his enemies with his expiring breath.

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Jesus was neither local nor national in his feelings or designs. The land of his birth was in bondage to the Roman power, but he exhibited no patriotic' indignation, and made no appeal to Jewish pride or revenge. Abhorring oppression in every shape, his method of meeting it was to rebuke it, and to return good for evil. He would destroy tyranny, but without injury to the tyrant; by a moral regeneration, not by a physical struggle. His soul was expansive as the universe, his love for the human race impartial, his country the world.

Jesus was ever ready to be slain for his principles, but he caused no tears of misery to flow, no blood of enemies to be shed, no houses to be fired, no lands to be devastated. See the miseries and calamities brought alike upon Hungarians and Austrians by the terrible appeals of Kossuth! And how many generations must pass away, before the fierce enmities thus excited will become extinct!

Oh, Kossuth! not of thy abhorrence of Austrian oppression do I complain, but join with thee in execrating it. But the lessons of vengeance which thou art teaching thy countrymen are such as degrade and brutalize humanity. Tell the Hungarians, that a bloody warfare to maintain their na

tionality is incompatible with moral greatness and Christian love, and for an object which is low and selfish. Inflame them not to madness by martial appeals, but exhort them to beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; so, being weaponless, yet possessing a spirit determined to be free, they shall present to Austria an unconquerable front, and achieve a bloodless triumph.

O, Jesus! noblest of patriots! greatest of heroes! most glorious of all martyrs! Thine is the spirit of universal liberty and love-of uncompromising hostility to every form of injustice and wrong. But not with weapons of death dost thou assault thy enemies, that they may be vanquished or destroyed; for thou dost not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places'; therefore hast thou put on the whole armor of God, having thy loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness, and thy feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and going forth to battle with the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit! Worthy of all imitation art thou, in overcoming the evil that is in the world; for by the shedding of thine own blood, but not the blood even of thy bitterest foes, shalt thou at last obtain a universal victory.

'The Christian's victory alone

Hostility for ever ends,

Erects an undisputed throne,

And turns his foes to friends.

Ye great! ye mighty of the earth!

Ye conquerors! learn this secret true

A secret of celestial birth

By suffering to subdue!

Nor is the victory lost, when those
Whom Love assails disdain to yield;
A host of spiritual foes

Lie vanquished on the field.

All outward storms will rage in vain,
If peace and love within abide;
The soul each onset will sustain,
A rock amidst the tide.'

The Practical Working of Lou-Resistance.

An esteemed correspondent expresses a doubt as to the practical working of non-resistance, as applied to the case of Austrian despotism, for example. But is that despotism the result of an adoption, or of a rejection of the principle of non-resistance? Clearly the latter. Is the principle, then, to be discarded, in order to put down that which it radically condemns and utterly repudiates? Is this philo, sophical? Can Beelzebub cast out Beelzebub ? Is evil to be overcome with evil? True, the cause of justice and liberty must eventually triumph, whether by or without a resort to murderous weapons; but it will not be because of those weapons, but because of its inherent goodness, and the transitory nature of tyranny. There will be no real freedom or security among mankind, until they beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks, and learn war no more. We grant that every successful struggle for freedom on the part of the oppressed, even with the aid of cannon and bomb-shells, is to be hailed with rejoicing; but simply in reference to its object,

and not to the mode of its accomplishment. That a people sufficiently enlightened to be conscious of their degradation, yet far from being morally and spiritually regenerated, should take up arms against their merciless oppressors, is not surprising-nay, it is inevitable, in their condition; but this is no real justification of revenge or murder on their part. If they were truly pure and good, theirs would be the course of Jesus and his apostles, of prophets and the noble army of martyrs and confessors,' in maintaining the right and in confronting the wrong a course attended by no crime, stained by no blood excepting their own freely shed for their enemies, divinely magnanimous, and 'mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds' — a course which wholly eclipses, in power and glory, any ever pursued by blood-spilling revolutionists. Our correspondent burns with indignation in view of Austrian tyranny; so do we. He rejoices to see its victims rising against it; so do we. He is in doubt whether the principle of non-resistance, if adopted by them, would procure for them the deliverance they seek; we are not. A people able to adopt that principle in theory and practice, cannot possibly be enslaved, any more than the angels of God; and no form of despotism can make them servile. They do not fear the face of the tyrant, and it is their mission to beard the lion in his den.' They may be burnt to ashes, but they can never be conquered. Theirs is the unresistible might of weakness,' (to borrow the expressive language of Milton,) and no weapon used against them shall prosper. But no people, constituting a nation, has reached this sublime state of moral exaltation; all are more or less brutal, eager for revenge in case of suffering, and incapable of understanding how they who take the sword shall perish with the sword. This is to be lamented; but it is history. Surely, it is no reason why those who are 'under grace' should abandon

their position, and discard Jesus, the non-resistant, for Moses or Joshua, the warrior.

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Our correspondent is greatly in error in speaking of nonresistance as a state of 'passivity.' On the contrary, it is a state of activity, ever fighting the good fight of faith, ever foremost to assail unjust power, ever struggling for liberty, equality, fraternity,' in no national sense, but in a worldwide spirit. It is passive only in this sense, that it will not return evil for evil, nor give blow for blow, nor resort to murderous weapons for protection or defence. In its purity, it is the blending of the gentleness and innocency of the Lamb of God, with the courage and strength of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

True Courage.

I BOAST no courage on the battle-field,
Where hostile troops immix in horrid fray;
For Love or Fame I can no weapon wield,
With burning lust an enemy to slay :-
But test my spirit at the blazing stake,
For advocacy of the RIGHTS OF MAN,
And TRUTH -

or on the wheel my body break;
Let Persecution place me 'neath its ban;
Insult, defame, proscribe my humble name;
Yea, put the dagger to my naked breast;

If I recoil in terror from the flame,

Or recreant prove when peril rears its crest,
To save a limb, or shun the public scorn

Then write me down for aye, Weakest of woman born!

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