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Show George B. Cheever. some horror stl'ick · n. But "now I . nw," say.' the D1• nmcr, and who can cone<.:iYe th gloriou r eality I1idden undet· the e ima ge~, " that there ~ tootl u ·hind the multitude a cha1·iot and a couple of horse waiting for Faithful, who (so soon as his adv r. aries had de. patched him) wn taken up into it, and strnightwny was carried up through the clonus with sound of trumpet, the ncnrcst way to the celestial gate." TLcrc he l~:td, through C!tri~ t, a right to the tree of life, and en tcrctl in through the gates into the city. Th rc he j oined the rrrcat multitude before the throne and ucforc the Lamb, cl~thcd with white robes, and palm in their hands. There upon the sea of glass mingled with fire, he joined the company of tho .. c who overcame atan on earth by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their t stimony, and loved not th ir lives unto the d ath. 'Vho arc these that arc arrayed in white roucR, and whence came they ? These arc tlwy which came out of great tribulation, nnd hnvc wa. h d their robe. , and have mnde th 'm white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore arc they before the throne of God, and serve him dny and night in his temple, and he that itteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They hall huni'Yer no more 0 l b ' nc1t 1er thirst any mor e ; neither shall the sun li rrht on 0 them, nor any heat. F or the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, sl1all feed them, and hall lead them to livinrr fountains of ·waters ; and God shaH wipe away all tears fro~ theit· eyes. The eau e in which John Brown suffer ed is made if lJOS- . 1 ' Sib e, more sacred than ever by hi martyrdom, which has all the seals that ever could r ender a martyrdom gloriou . II is name, his memory, hi ~ letter , the vindication of his character and act , are a sacred and invaluable tru t which a large portion of the so-ca11ed Church of Christ in this nation, proud and judicially blinded, will hanghtily and scorn. fully rej ect. Y ct God will not let the lessons of such a life be sealed by such a death in vain. The church that disowns George B. Cheever. him is not worthy of him ; hut we thank God for the divinely pre<:iou :-~ and sunlike tc timony of hi s. memucr~hit: i1~ ~he true f(>hl of Chri ' t ; f r the •x<~mpl ' of one u<·h Clmst~an is confounding to a. thou~nnd hypocrites, and ought to bnng back to Uhri ·t's own fold the unhappy wand ' rcr;) whom the l>li(rht of such hypo ·ri~y, mistaken for r eljgion, ha · made n infidcis. 'Ve thank God that the first puulic Yictim of the cruelty or .lave law and of the slave dcspoti:-;m in our Jan<l, . . hould have been found a fi'tithf'ul . rrvant of' Chri st, so unbl 'lllish<·d, t. 0 J>lll'C for ueh ·m ofT' ·rin er, 'Ve thank God that SO Cll II' •, S , ' o . this immolation, ·o awful, o . olcmn, on the altar of th1s 1\tlol ell with 0 .-t •ntation. military mini ·tration of' F eu ·ral and • State 1:ower:3~ ns the willing pri •st.· of it:-l wor~hip, ha ' ~ccn the sncrificc of a man in who1n, as in Dauie.1 ~f o}d, no fa.ult could be f(mnd, cxrcpt con ·eming the law of l11s. God: apphcd nnd olH')' C<l by him ngain:-;t the n·igning .iniqtnt.y of tl•c ~.~a~ tion. It i::; mntt ·r f(H· prof'ounde:--t thoughtfttl pr:u ~ ~ tha t nfte.I l . ' t'on or the rt<:C th ' mora a sa sm.l 1 · h)' F ed ' ral JU=- tH.:l'..,. dcclm-mg thnt black men hav<~ 110 right . I hnt white men arc b~unu to r e;-;p ct th i~ culminating State crime of the mnnkr o{ the f . . ·t man' who OJ>Cnly ~truck for their deliv rancr, hns uccn 11 ,::, ' • • • l u l' ' . ' 1 ~i rrnalized by findin g in it s victun a b •tng Wll l o< ~. .s ect. ' Good':-l baptifim, God'R commi:.:;sion, God's . truth manifestly upon him and within him, and who::;c v<·ry form, eve~ out o~ pri on and obscurity, has be ·n ct.dnrging ~u~d uceo~111~1g radl~ ant a.s with ' l cli vin' transfi guration, ever swce the 1 vcnge ful' :n<l imJ:lncaulc insulted slave power lifted him to the ·}·1', g 't"C ns a tr•titor and n. C'riminal. " '01 u !:) ( " · ~· ' < It i ~ matter for grate {.u 1 .J·O Y tl m t tl l c, f'11. ·t brr rc. '• 1t brr ovc. rnment-al martyr of this wiekcdn<·.: wa ~ c:u~·i ed to lu~ act of ti:~~\ ·oi~ against it uy the impulses of a Chn ·twn h •nr~ and con .. Cl ~1CC, ' by the ' r 1 1 · :t of God by the loft1 est teaclnng;-; of rY Ol'l :\11( f Pill ' religion, by !tis tonvi<'t.ion~ a.· a won;hippcr of that God w.ho is no re~pecter of pcr ::.ons, a u •licver in the Lord Jesus Chnst, |