There never was a subject presented for investigation which possesses such claims as that of the religion of the Bible. It claims to deal with every human being through the whole range of his existence, and it claims to teach that that existence may be eternal. It claims that on its reception or rejection depends the happiness or misery of each person. It also claims to bring those who embrace it into new and near relations with their Creator, to grant them private communion with Him, and to give assurance that their requests shall be granted. It also claims to abolish many of the evils of this life, and to modify those it does not abolish. It claims not only to avert from the soul the consequences of sin, but also to destroy the power of sin in the heart. It claims to be the only sovereign cure for all the individual, social, and national evils of this42world, to be the only remedy for the multiform ills to which man is subject, especially that great evil, death, the king of terrors, it claims to entirely strip of his horrors, to deprive of his sting, and to transform into a welcome messenger. All these claims it supports by the testimony of its whole history in the world, by its influence on individuals and communities, by the natural effects of its principles where understood, by the luster of its virtues when practiced, and by the faithfulness of its promises when tested. It supports them also by the fact that it has God for its author, and as he perfectly understands the constitution of the human mind, and the cause and nature of its diseases, so in introducing a remedy he would provide that it should be simple, effective, and fully adapted to meet and overcome all those diseases, and restore the soul to its original purity, and to its primitive relations to its Creator. As to say that he had provided no remedy would be an impeachment of his mercy, so, to say that he had provided an inadequate one would be an impeachment of his power. But his power is omnipotent, and therefore the remedy is adequate. Such being the character of the claims of the gospel, and such the evidence in support of those claims, what attention does it demand from every one! And yet, what attention it receives! How many consider it beneath their notice, and yet devote their whole time to minor things. How contradictory the evidence about gold at Pike's Peak, and yet how many decide and act on that evidence, who consider the claims of the gospel as worthless, and the evidence it presents feeble. Such inconsistencies can be accounted for only by admitting the truth of the text, that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.—Journal and Messenger.