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Are we to believe that the kingdom of God is; 

 " righteousness, and peace, and joy" and separate 

 one of the elements of this trinitarian unity in 

 extreme importance and conclude that we possess- 

 the kingdom ? 



The following propositions are expressive of the 

 truth. 



1. Emotional religion seeks the aesthetic and 

 fastidious as an end. 



It uses mediums as final. 



It desires an educated priesthood at the sacri- 

 fice of holiness. It employs musical talent as a 

 feature of attraction and entertainment. 



It substitutes form and liturgy for integrity 

 and character. 



It stops with a condition and state of emotiou 

 which ought to be an incentive to a holy end. 



It plays upon the imaginations, and causes the 

 sensations to tingle under its imagery and figures, 

 of rhetoric, but leaves the unfortunate subjects, 

 unconvicted and unholy. • 



It describes the glories of Heaven, but touches 

 lightly on the conditions of its attainment. 



It arouses the emotions, but not to action, and 

 the result is a relapse into greater inactivity. 



It destroys the relish for simple truth, and 

 characterizes that as dry and disinteresting which 

 does not effect a phase of sensations agreeable to 

 its fancy. 



