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T H g CHRISTIAN Sff®r. .-ll.i-U-BBW , W,■ ".-..JlBagBS.!‘ ?gg"g»gggg*g-eggg«5B«gBgBMWMa “ The Lord God Is a Sun and Shield*” YOL. I. 1MM9R91IGH, N. C. SEPTEMBER, 1844. NO. 9. From Ihe Advocate of Voral R< form. How to Overcome Evil with Good. Where is the individual, laboring in any department of benevolent effort, who is not thankful for every lesson in this hea venly art? Who does not feel, in looking over the face of society, that if the mass of evils which oppress and dishearten us, are ever to be removed, it must be done by the principle of love, overcoming evil with good? Every word and action left on record in the life of the Great Teacher, bears attestation to this truth, and exhibits the omnipotent power of this weapon, foTged and tempered in heaven’s own ar mory. It was this principle, carried out to its full extent, which gave to primitive Christianity, its resistless power and its miraculous success." When from that up per chamber in* Jerusalem, the twelve apostles looked out upon the "world for which their Divine Master had just died, and from which he had in their sight as cended to the throne of glory, what did they behold? Out of Judea, where alone tliet rue God was known and worship ped, (though even there darkness cover ed the earth, and gross darkness the peo ple,) a splendid and imposing system of Paganism, interwoven with the very frame ' work of society, and upheld by the whole weight of political power and influence, stood directly in the way of that religion whose interests had been solemnly confid ed to their care. Giant forms of sin, grown < hoary with age, and guarded with jealous „ care by all the worst passions of human — asterey were ta be removed, before the simple but sublime truths of the gospel could find access te the hearts of men. Where among the proud nobles and sages of Greece orTtome, could one be found to listen to the humbling story of the cross, told by an uneducated, obscure Jew? How chall a mission, on the success of which a world’s salvation depends, be earned forward, and accomplished, under such circumstances? In the affecting record of the Acts pf the Apostle, we have the ans wer to this question. They Wetit out armed with quenchless love to God and man, and in its exercise they continually overcame evil with good, uiitii the evil gave Way, atid the good was established in its stead. At. all times, and in ail places* in palaces and in prisons, living and dy* ing, they uniformly met evil with good, and in so doing achieved a greater con* quest than the world had ever before seen* Is not human nature the same now, that it was in the days of Peter and Paul? Why, then, do not all who are followers of Christ, arid who ‘seek to leave the world better than they found it,’ imitate thile illustrious examples? Why do We so seldom see the full power of love, brought to bear on the ten thousand oevils which now afflict and destroy mankind? Is it not because those who would thus follow m the footsteps of Jesus, must first be baptized with his baptism of self-denial and suffering? Is* it not because such a course requires a perseverance in doing good, which involves more effort than most professors of religion are willing to expend in the cause of benevolence? They hear the cry of suffering, perishing humanity —they look on the picture drawn perhaps by a master hand, of a world lying in wickedness* and are roused by the natural impulse to energetic action. In prosecut ing the'work thus commenced, unlooked for obstacles occur—the lions in the Way look very formidable, and in the absence of the stimulus which first excited to ac tion, how many faint and grow weary in well-doing, of turn aside into some lea* rugged path, leaving a few to bear the heat and burden of the day alone. Dee#' not this tell the Story of many & r eiety, formed for some benevolent
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