can heal the love of slander and of calumny. If we would bless God, we
must _first_ learn to bless man, who is made in the image of God.




II.

_Preached May 5, 1850._

THE VICTORY OF FAITH.


"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is
the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he
that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the
Son of God?"--1 John v. 4-5.

There are two words in the system of Christianity which have received
a meaning so new, and so emphatic, as to be in a way peculiar to it,
and to distinguish it from all other systems of morality and religion;
these two words are--the World, and Faith. We find it written in
Scripture that to have the friendship of the world is to be the enemy
of God--- whereupon the question arises--The world?--did not God make
the world? Did He not place us in the world? Are we not to love what
God has made? And yet meeting this distinctly we have the inspired
record, "Love not the World."

The object of the Statesman is, or ought to be, to produce as much
worldly prosperity as possible--but Christianity, that is Christ,