Vitality of Christianity.
The religion of God and the religion of man, differing essentially in their aim and tendency, will exhibit equal difference in their practical operations. And thus it ever has been. Where human wisdom has been taken as the only guide in religious things, an Egyptian night of moral darkness has rested upon the land; the hungry passions of the corrupt heart have been let loose with whetted appetites to seek for prey; the rights of others have been disregarded, and violence and wrong have reigned supreme. But when Christianity has controlled the hearts of men, the reverse has ever been the case; moral light has shed its genial rays; the passions and appetites have been restrained, and their carnality destroyed; charity and philanthropy, broad as the human family, have pervaded all, waking tender sympathy for the wronged and afflicted wherever found, stimulating to the most vigorous activity, noble daring, and generous self-sacrificing to promote the social and spiritual good of men of every clime.—Christian Instructor.