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THE SAVIOUR'S DIVINITY.

"What think ye of Christ?"—. xxii. 42.

HE name of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men, is the name which more than all others evokes the veneration ofthe civilized world; and yet few men living at the time of His life in the flesh dare have predicted such a result. For nearly nineteen hundred years the knowledge of Him has been gradually extending, and millions of souls have regarded Him as their chief treasure in life and in death. His life stands before the world as the model life of humanity—it was a life of toil and trouble and shame for the sake of others. His words display the purity and wisdom of the speaker, and plainly point out the way of life everlasting; and wherever they have been carried they have found warmhearted listeners, who would sooner part with every earthly possession than one of those lessons of love. His name has been the watchword of human progress; education and civilization have ever resulted where it has been revered; before it kings have quailed; for it men have shed their last drop of blood in the field,