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you would tell me freely what you had for or against him. And why should not people make up their minds about the Lord Jesus Christ, and take their stand for or against him? If you think well of him, why not speak well of him and range yourselves on his side? And if you think ill of him, and believe him to be an im- postor, and that he did not die to save the world, why not lift up your voice and say you are against him? It would be a happy day for Christianity if men would just take sides — if we could know positively who was really for him and who was against him.

It is of very little importance what the world thinks of any one else. The queen and the statesmen, the peers and the princes, must soon be gone. Yes; it matters little, comparatively, what we think of them. Their lives can interest only a few; but every living soul on the face of the earth is concerned with this ]\Tan. The ques- tion for the world is, ''What think ye of Christ?"

I do not ask you what you think of the Estab- lished Church, or of the Presbyterians, or the Baptists, or the Roman Catholics; I do not ask you vrhat you think of this minister or that, of this doctrine or that; but I want to ask you what you think of the living person of Christ?

I should like to ask. Was he really the Son of

God — the great God-Man? Did he leave heaven

and come down to this world for a purpose ? Was

it really to seek and to save? I should like to

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