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Splendid form, church aggrandizement, and 

 ecclesiastical pageantry are its motives and aspi- 

 rations. 



'!. The religion of emotion docs many things 

 thai the emotional religion performs, but goes 

 further. It believes hell is waiting to receive 

 the finally impenitent, and strives by tears, en- 

 treaties, and accredited means to bring the sub- 

 ject to repentance. 



It believes sin to be the curse of the world, and 

 secures and proclaims victory over and freedom 

 from its thraldom. It believes the sound of the 

 "church-going bell" quite insufficient to reclaim 

 the disinterested and abandoned classes and goes 

 into the "byways and hedges" and compels them 

 to come in. 



It believes the church has courted the world 

 till she has become weak and compromising, 

 and raising up a "standard against satan" pro- 

 tests. 



It believes that Christ and his religion are all- 

 absorbing obligations and gladly gives up the 

 world and "seeks first the kingdom of God." 



It believes that deliverance from sin and death 

 are thoughts worthy its adoration and "rejoices 

 with joy unspeakable and full of glory." 



It does all it does to "God's glory" that redemp- 

 tion shall appear unto all men, even though it re- 

 fill ires denial, suffering, and death. 



