The New Life

The New Life.
still much perversity, although some fall back after a fair pro
fession, amongst the whites also everything is by no means
perfect. Among our forefathers in Europe, a whole century
was occupied with the introduction of Christianity. Sometimes
a nation received Christianity to cast it oflf again after thirty or
forty years. It required a thousand years to bring them up to the
height at which we now stand. I^et us not expect too much
from the heathen at once, but with love and patience and firm,
faith, pray and work, and expect the blessing of God-
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