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Rh feet are shod with the good will and peace of the gospel. Thy helmet is the hope of a world's salvation. Faith is thy shield. The sword of the Christ-Spirit is in thy right hand, and the spear of Ithuriel in thy left. Set up thy standard on the mountains, and thy tent in the valleys. Let thy voice be heard in the wilderness, saying, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” Proclaim the Jubilee of humanity on earth. Be thou a tireless herald of that long predicted Republic, whose “officers shall be peace and its exactors righteousness”; wherein the Sovereignty of Divine Principles shall be supreme, the people all righteous, the nations learn war no more, knowledge cover the earth, poverty cease, human misery finally become extinct, and “God be all in all.”Hopedale, Milford, Mass., Dec. 1, 1854.