BAWrLE OF FREEDOM.



               CHAPTER II.

            CflRIBTANIY AND LIBERTY.

  A PURE Christianity is the glorious embodiment
of soul-freedom.
  Adapted to the spiritual wants and immortal as-
pirations of the individual man; meeting him in
his darkness with the clearness of its discoveries;
meeting him in weakness with its transforming
power; meeting him in wretchedness with conso-
lation and refuge; coming in direct contact with
the heart, and flashing in upon it a full sense of
its sinfulness and responsibility, and breathing into
the deep recesses of his beings the breath of life and
hope-it raises him to communion with the Eternal,
as responsible and as free to worship God, so far as
human agencies or interferences are concerned, as
though no other being but himself dwelt upon the
earth. Christianity, uncorrupted, presses upon'man
his personal, his individual relations to eternity,
telling him to - work out his own salvation," and
thus makes it a matter entirely existing between
himself and his God.
  Hence its announcement was not to kings or
magistrates; to a convocation of rulers or a hier-
archy of priests. It chose no organized power as
its oracle. It sanctioned no assumptions of human
authority in spiritual concerns.  Replete with



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