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 assert, that "In Jesus Christ dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." To this great truth the Lord called the attention of his disciples, when he said, "I am in the Father, and the Father in me." "He that seeth Me, seeth the Father! I and the Father are ONE!" and breathing upon his disciples, he said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." No truth of revelation is more clear than this, and yet it is one upon which many controversies have arisen.

This truth presents to the intellectual eye of man one glorious object upon whom he can fix his love. The veil which concealed this great truth from our minds has been rent asunder from the top to the bottom; and, as the Jehovah—the Immanuel—, is discovered to be the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning, the Ending, the Almighty, the true God, and Eternal Life. To worship him in sincerity and truth, to keep his precepts, to cultivate charity and good-will to man, is the sum and substance of all religion! This is the religion that will chase away all the darkness of night! This is the religion that will make Israel to bud and blossom, and fill the whole earth with fruit! This is the religion, to the light of which the Gentiles shall come from far, and kings to the brightness of its rising! This is the religion that will effect a mighty change in the state and moral character of man! He shall grow in goodness, love, and every mental excellence; and in him, "the wilderness and solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." This religion, dear reader, is the spiritual temple and kingdom of the Lord! it doctrines are all harmonious and clear; each one shining with a lustre