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`_I4ras 1-atm msanxnucsAnd, if we should go to any other sect,--toChristians, Freewill Baptists,ProtestantMethodist, Moravians, Disciples, Lutherans,Unitarians, Greeks, Quakers, Shakers, Mormons,Turks, or J evvs, we should hear a loudvoice,-no, no,-from every other sect.Where then can we find the meek? I answer,-fromthe four winds of heaven, fronteverycontinent, from. land and sea, fromevery age, from every clime, from everynation, kindred, tongue, and people,on ourglobe, from every sect, from Catholic andJew, from high and low, from rich and poor,from bond and free, from the ffair Georgianto the dark African: "For thou vvas slainand hast redeemed us to God by thy blood,out of every kindred, and tongue, andpeople, and nation." Not all, of anyclss, or orsect, nation, kindred, tongue,or people; but, out of every class;so saysthe text, and so my soul believes. "Andhast made us unto our God, kings ,andand we shall reignpriests,on the earth."velation v. 9, 10.But will not the earth be inherited by themeek before the resurrection of the saints?Nsvsn. Butl have been taught to believe, saysthe objector, that the time was coming, in thegospel day, when the meek would inheritthe earth; that is, the nations of the earthwould, at some time, all become holy,and constitute a universal race of the meek.This could not be "the meek," if such _a

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