HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
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has advanced in countries where it has been opposed by far 
more formidable obstacles than now arrest its course in 
Madagascar. It has vanquished antagonists vastly more 
numerous and powerful than the barbarous and sanguinary 
rulers who there set themselves, and take counsel together 
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “ Let us 
break their bands asunder, and cast their cords from us.” 
The scriptures have been extensively circulated in the island; 
the seed of divine truth has thus been scattered widely over 
the country—that country, now the sacred deposit of a 
martyr’s ashes, thus taken possession of for Christ, must ulti¬ 
mately become his inheritance; that seed is incorruptible 
seed, and, now watered with a martyr’s blood, must issue in 
a rich and abundant harvest. The recent events in Mada¬ 
gascar have completed the chain of evidence supplied by 
the results of modern Missionary efforts, which has so satis¬ 
factorily proved that the principles of divine truth are 
imperishable, and that the power of the gospel on the human 
mind is unimpaired, that it is still not only mighty to turn 
men from dumb idols to the living God, but to sustain under 
all the means of intimidation and suffering which the 
malignant subtlety of fiends and the cruelty of men can 
devise or employ. These are the evidences of its divine 
origin, the earnests of its future triumphs, the pledges of its 
final and universal ascendency, through the power of Him 
whose kingdom ruleth over all, who will cause the wrath of 
man to praise him, while the remainder of that wrath he 
will restrain. 
THE END. 
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