history when they are made to sweat and agonize under its tortures, and the fearful forebodings of the wrath to come. Now as such persons are enemies to God, enemies to themselves, they must also be enemies to the true peace and happiness of their fellow men. For he who is blind to his own best interest, cannot be prepared to consult the true interest of others. They are all marshalled on the side of their great Leader; "the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience."[1] Their influence is in opposition to that kingdom which Christ came to establish—that "kingdom" that consists "in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" And this is true of all the various grades of character that obtain among the impenitent. "He that is not with me," says our Lord,. "is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad."[2] Thus
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