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HEN will man learn to look within, and discover what the Lord has so plainly taught us, that a man's enemies shall be they of his own house hold?

What a thoroughly wicked people, we say, were those Jews! what pretensions to holiness, and yet what hypocrites; what boasters of the law's observance, and yet what cruel persecutors and devourers of widows' houses. Thank God we are not like them! How bitterly they persecuted the Saviour of the world, the Messiah whom they so anxiously expected. How did their clamour silence the remonstrance of Pilate—"Away with him! crucify him, crucify him!" Thank God, we have not this sin to answer for! Thus we congratulate ourselves—thus we judge others! Ah! may there not possibly be greater evil within ourselves?—Let us see.

It is our serious opinion that Christians are a more guilty people than the Jews. Christians, at least, acknowledge Jesus Christ to be the Saviour of the world: the Jews never did so. The Jews expected a temporal kingdom; their hopes rested on a temporal prince; and when the Saviour declared that his kingdom was not of this world, they despised, rejected, and crucified Him, and thus the Scripture was fulfilled: "He came to his own, but his own received him not;" and the wounds in His hands were literally inflicted in