Christianity, avoiding anarchy on the one hand and despotism on the other, sets the race on a path of unlimited advancement. It pronounces all men equal. In express terms, the Christian revelation declares all nations of the earth to be of one blood; it pronounces all men equally the subjects of one King; it makes the value of the soul infinite, and shows no difference between the worth of that of a beggar and that of a prince. Look into the stable at Bethlehem on the night when crowned sage and humbled shepherd knelt by the cradle of that babe who was their common king. Do you see in that spectacle the bond of an essential quality uniting all ranks, and making the royal purple and the peasant's russet, faint and temporary distinctions? Well might Coleridge say, that the fairest flower he ever saw climbing around a poor man's window, was not so beautiful as the Bible he saw within. If all classes forsook the gospel, one might expect the poor, the hard-toiling, the despised to cling to it. Whatever Christianity may have become in our churches and in our times, the great class of the workers can find in its aspects no excuse for abandoning itself, unless they can show that the churches have re-written the Bible; unless they can allege that it no longer exhibits the divine Founder of Christianity preaching to the poor, companying with publicans and sinners; unless they can show that it was the sanctioned usage of apostolic times, to honor the rich in the christian assemblage; unless, in one word, they can deny that the gospel holds forth to every man the prospects of being a king and a priest to God.—Anon.