And yet, according to the ecclesiastics with whom we have to do, the Lord of these prophets passed by in silence just such enormities as he commanded them to expose and denounce! Every where, he came in contact with slavery in its worst forms--"horrible cruelties" forced themselves upon his notice; but not a word of rebuke or warning did he utter.

He saw "a boy given for a harlot, and a girl sold for wine, that they might drink,"[C] without the slightest feeling of displeasure, or any mark of disapprobation! To such disgusting and horrible conclusions, do the arguings which, from the haunts of sacred literature, are inflictcd on our churches, lead us! According to them, Jesus Christ, instead of shining as the light of the world, extinguished the torches which his own prophets had kindled, and plunged mankind into the palpable darkness of a starless midnight! O Savior, in pity to thy suffering people, let thy temple be no longer used as a "den of thieves!" [Footnote A: Jeremiah xxii.

13.] [Footnote B: Isaiah lviii.

6,7.] [Footnote C: Joel iii.

3.] "THOU THOUGHTEST THAT I WAS ALTOGETHER SUCH AN ONE AS THYSELF." In passing by the worst forms of slavery, with which he every where came in contact among the Jews, the Savior must have been inconsistent with himself.