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in their vengeance on other tribes is in them nothing 

 more or less than the outcome of their ideas of justice. 

 Their superstition leads them to fix upon certain 

 persons as guilty of destroying their innocent friends, 

 and justice demands that they should avenge the 

 wrong. The voice of their brother's blood cries unto 

 them, as Abel's did to heaven, and they dare not turn 

 a deaf ear. 



THE CRUELTIES OF PAGANISM. 



Jesus Christ has said, " Take My yoke upon you." 



Did you ever think that His yoke is heavy and in 

 any sense "grievous to be borne ?" Of all the yokes 

 which men must bear His yoke is the easiest and 

 lightest of all. 



The cruelties of paganism it is not possible to 

 describe. 



Some may have thought that these innocent chil- 

 dren of nature are as happy as we can make them if 

 we go to them with the Gospel. 



" Leave them alone," they say. You will only dis- 

 turb them if you intrude upon them new ideas. They 

 are more happy as they are. 



Those who thus write and speak know little of the 

 social condition of the pagan. 



If we look very briefly at the condition of the 



