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Show 236 Til£ LlD~RT\' DJ~:LI,. means, on this snme struggle for numbers, as ever before. 'fhcrc is '1 a more excellent wo.y." It is not by numbers, not by majorities, that the Anti-Slavery cn.uso is to be wrought out. In this controversy it has been declared thousands of times, but it needs to be repeated thousands of times more, that it is not by physical power, not by an array of numbers, not by ca.ucusings and bnllot-boxes, that Right is to prevail over Wrong. It wa.s not by numbers, but against numbers, and in defiance of tho might and wealth of a world, that Christianity planted itself, by ita own inherent force, deep in the consciences and souls of men, and became a living, ineradicable power. It wns not by num· hers, but in spil<l of numbers, that the Protestant Ueformation was established. So we believe it can be shown of every cause of a moral nature. ]3ut put Christinnity to tho t•ote, in any nation of the world to-Ua.y, and, if voting could do it, it would bo extirpated. W c do not mean that A MOJU.: EXCELLENT WAY. 237 Popery would b o voted down in S . . land, nor the A . pam or m Ire-nghcan Church . (though it might b ) m England, C e, nor that th burch, (composed f at American 0 almost im which has been d mmcrnblo sects ) emonstrated t ' Bulwark of American Sl o be the Chief avery would b of existence. But 1 ' c voted out ' et any clear principle of the Religion of C . ' unquestionable in his own words and J"fi hnst, as exemplified 'e, bo put t .America or Europ . 0 vote, in c, and It would which tho doctri f h meet the fate no o t o Higher La this country th w has met in . o past two years, - H Pilate being mad e f n.e nd s to crucif . crod and for tho world that G y It. It is woll lhro on cannot bo voted off H' no, nor llis Laws vot d IS Wed e out of existence. o not deny or d bt I We wish tho c t' 1 ou t 10 value of numbers. n Jro and were convert d Slavery to Ch . . c to Anti- ' rJstwnity and t G cnougb from all thr ' o on. It is far conow Btd' numbers arc th · u esuablo as ' ey nrc never to b Thoy must co e made an end. mo as tho result of a personal con- |