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Show "[Qe @tork <!3.ocs ~lnt\rd[ on." 1 IKE all Reforms which have for their object the amelioration of man's condition ; the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom; the cause of human free· dom bas encountered many oppositions calculated to impede its progress. It bas temporarily suffered from cruel defection within, and the most virulent persecution without the camp. John, the forerunner of Jesus, had for his portion "locusts and wild honey." But those who have stood forth in the sunlight, the advocates of the crushed and bleeding bondman; whose motto is, "Our country is the world, and our countrymen all mankind," have bad no honey for theiT portion. Oh no I they have ever dwelt among the tempest and the storm, with thunder, lightning, and whirlwind, to feed upon. Some have been called, ·for the ad voeacy of the r ) "THE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON." 157 truth, to wing their flight from the prison-bonsc to IIcaven; and others, to bare their bosoms to the redhot indignation of relentless mobs, arrayed in mur· uerons panoply. They have gone; but, thank God, "THE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON!'' 'rbc great men of the nation, the mighty men, tho chief priests and rulers, have risen in their strength, and resolved to crush, as with an avalanche, the irrepressible aspirations of the bondman's heart for FREE· DOl!; they have attempted to padlock the out-gushing sympathies of humanity; to trample in the dust the sacred guarantees of the palladium of their own liberties, but their "terribleness hath deceived them, and the pride of their heart," for the desolating angel hath scaled their lips in the silence of the tomb, and we, the recipients of their crushing cruelties, thank God 11 TllE WORK GOES BRf-VELY ON.11 |