. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . atal overthrow of their city, have been vaga-bonds over all the face of the earth. Witness the poverty, igno-rance, and misery of those parts of the world where human creedsprevail, and where the Bible is rejected; yea, witness in the caseof every man who substitutes his will for Gods. To the law andto the testimony 5 if they speak not according to this word, it isbecause there is no Hght in them. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doct
. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . atal overthrow of their city, have been vaga-bonds over all the face of the earth. Witness the poverty, igno-rance, and misery of those parts of the world where human creedsprevail, and where the Bible is rejected; yea, witness in the caseof every man who substitutes his will for Gods. To the law andto the testimony 5 if they speak not according to this word, it isbecause there is no Hght in them. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re-proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.—2 Tim. iii. 16. We thank God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of Godwhich ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is of truththe word of God.—i Thess. ii. 13. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminishaught from it.—Deut. ii. 13. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plaguesthat are written in this book.—Rev. xxi. 8. 12 RELIGIOUS So run that ye may obtain.—i Co ix. 24. THE CHRISTIAN ! the race-course here before us lies ;See ! many running for the glorious prize ;Some sweat and toil, and, maugreall their pains,Small is their progress, smaller still their weight oppressed, of sordid gold and care,They run a while, then give up in one is seen, whose speed outstrips the wind—The laggers all the quickly leaves behind ;Comformed to rule, he casts all burdens down,And presses forward to receive the crown. In his exhortations to Christians, the great apostle of the Gen-tiles very often alludes to the Olympic games. These games werecelebrated in different parts of Greece; particularly on the isthmuswhich joined the Morea to the main-land ; hence they were calledthe Isthmian exercises. They were held on the banks of the riverAlpheus, near Olympia, a city o
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