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Show A remarkable sermon was re cently preached by the English bishop of Manchester, near Bolton, in the course ef which he said eyerybody deplored de-plored the comparative failure of re-aults re-aults which Christianity had produced iu the world. No one, he supposed, would say to day that Christianity had done in the world what it might reasonably rea-sonably have been eipected to have done. He could not account for the failure. It wag easy to say, if it were God's work, it surely must have prospered pros-pered more than it had done. That wan not his way of arguing. He could see, from its own inherent excellency, ex-cellency, itBown admirable structure, its own entire harmony with and adaptation to every want of nature, that Christianity must be divine. Uut if they ask him why it had failed why there were perhaps 50,000 out of the 80,000 people in Bolton and the neighborhood living as if there wp no such thing as Christianity he couid not explain it; he could only say it ! illustrated that important truth of the power which man had in his freedom of will to resist and to quench the sanctifying power ot the Holy Ghost. |