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RES1DENT LINCOLN said, "I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine, which characterize their articles of faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification of membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul."

The aggregate number of sermons annually preached by the sixty thousand clergymen of the United States, is about three millions. Were one-half of this vast number devoted to illustrating and enforcing the principles of the Religion of Justice, as based on the Golden Rule, it would not be long before a state of society would be inaugurated on the earth, where the battle for bread and the strifes, and antagonisms, and discords that now reign, would cease, and the Kingdom of Peace begin.

Without Justice, there can be no Religion—without