186 ILL EFFECTS OF does not fight for victory, but truth. And the surest way for him to ascer- tain this, is, to examine the temper with which he defends it. Rivalry is not his motive, nor is railing his weapon. If, as it is said, warfare is the natural state of man, let its hostility amongChris- tians be directed to a foreign enemy; let them not engage in civil war. You have already " provoked each other to good works," which is part of the law ; go on, and provoke each other to " love, which is the fulfilling of the law." Let both sides rejoice in the good done, without caring which does it. " There are di- versities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." If there is so much done separately, what a mighty mass of good would be produced by cordial co-operation ! Let me not be accused of levity in applying the words of the poet, The Douglas and the Percy both together, Were confident against a world in arms.
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