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 history is  true — and  who  will  dare  deny  it? — on our fidelity to  God  and  His  Christ  and  Christ's  true Church depends  the  permanency  of  our  republican institutions. God Himself  affirms  it  in  Deuteronomy xxviii.,  and  His  words  are  as  true  of  us  to-day as they  were  of  Israel:  "  If  thou  wilt  hear  the  voice of  the  Lord  thy  God,  to  do  and  keep  all  His  commandments, the  Lord  thy  God  will  make  thee  higher than  all  the  nations  on  the  earth;  but  if  thou  wilt  not hear  the  Lord  thy  God,  to  do  and  keep  all  His  commandments, the  Lord  thy  God  will  bring  upon  thee a  nation  from  afar  and  from  the  uttermost  ends  of the  earth  to  destroy  thee."