No sect has ever arisen which so nearly approached the character of primitive christianity, in all relations with each other and with their fellow men.

The old-fashioned play of that name, which is daily acted everywhere about us, is usually more of a tragedy than a comedy, but Mr. DALY'S Man and Wife is comedy, farce, muscular christianity, and paralysis pleasantly mingled together.

Even the cathedral, even the company of half-starved conscripts that straggled past him in the tail of three generals, dismayed him no longer, for the cathedral was but the symbol of a frozen Christianity which he need no longer fear, and the conscripts were his peoplehisor soon would be.

They recognise some forms and a few ceremonies; but vital inherent excellencesimple Christianity, plain, unadorned, and earnestis their pole-star.

They recognise some forms and a few ceremonies; but vital inherent excellencesimple Christianity, plain, unadorned, and earnestis their pole-star.

Ordained, not by the laying on of human hands, but by the imposition of a Saviour's love, he preached by his life, in official position, and legislative hall, and commercial circles, a practical Christianity.

Many of the natives profess christianity.

The development of deism from Toland on is under the direct influence of his "rational Christianity"; the ethics of Shaftesbury stands in polemic relation to his denial of everything innate; and while Berkeley and Hume are deducing the consequences of his theory of knowledge, Hartley derives the impulse to a new form of psychology from his chapter on the association of ideas.

I am aware that many of my readers will demur that I am confounding Christianity with ascetic or monastic Christianity; yet I cannot read the New Testament, the Imitatio Christi, the Confessions of S. Augustine, and the Pilgrim's Progress without feeling that Christianity in its origin, and as understood by its chief champions, was and is ascetic.

They recognise some forms and a few ceremonies; but vital inherent excellencesimple Christianity, plain, unadorned, and earnestis their pole-star.

They recognise some forms and a few ceremonies; but vital inherent excellencesimple Christianity, plain, unadorned, and earnestis their pole-star.