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260 teachings, sir. We know something about Christianity as well as you."

I attempt no such argument. It is not to be supposed for a moment that black Christians in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, do not know that there are no distinctions in Christian requirement, that her obligations are as weighty upon them as upon any portion of the Church. I am only endeavoring to show that while that portion of the race that lives in America owes duty in America, it has obligations which likewise pertain to Africa; that devotedness to the cause of the black man in the United States, does not necessarily exclude sympathy for Africa. Let me illustrate this. There is a phase of modern theological writing, which brings out most prominently the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ, though born of a Jewish mother, shows nowhere Jewish idiosyncrasies. You look at the Lord Jesus, you read his life, you study his words, and nowhere can you discover nationality. IsLcn of every clime, and blood, and nation turn to Ilini. and they find each and all in Him the reflex of one common broad humanity.

The Apostle, St. Paul, more than any other mere man, reached the nearest to this grand and divine Catholicity of the Master. "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians: both to the who and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also." Romans, Chapter i. 14, 15. Nay, he went oven beyond this. In his Epistle to the Thessalonians, he speaks of his kinsmen the Jews, in a way which would load one to suppose that he had become thoroughly denationalized. "For ye