rliamentary
regulations or enactments, bidding back the waves of what is called
aggression. Give us the living Spirit of God, and we shall be one.

Once on this earth was exhibited, as it were, a specimen of perfect
anticipation of such an unity, when the "rushing mighty wind" of
Pentecost came down in the tongues of fire and sat on every man; when
the Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, the "Cretes and Arabians," the Jew and the Gentile, each
speaking one language, yet blended and fused into one unity by
enthusiastic love, heard one another speak as it were, in one
language, the manifold works of God; when the spirit of giving was
substituted for the spirit of mere rivalry and competition, and no man
said the things he had were his own, but all shared in common. Let
that spirit come again, as come it will, and come it must; and then,
beneath the influences of a mightier love, we shall have a nobler and
a more real unity.

We pass on now, in the second place, to consider the _individual
peace_ resulting from this unity. As we have endeavoured to explain
what is meant by unity, so now, let us endeavour to understand what is
meant by peace. Peace then, is the opposite of passion, and of labour,
toil, and effort. Peace is that state in which there are no desires
madly demanding an impossible gratification; that state in which there
is no misery, no remorse, no sting. And there are but three things
which can break that peace. The first is discord between the mind of
man and the lot which he is called on to inherit; the second is
discord between the affections and powers of the soul; and the third
is doubt of the rectitude, and justice, and love, wherewith this world
is ordered. But where these things exist not, where a man is contented
with his lot, where the flesh is subdued to the spirit, and where he
believes and feels with all his heart that all is right, there is
peace, and to this says the apostle, "ye are called,"--the grand,
peculiar call of Christianity,--the call, "Come unto Me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

This was the dying bequest of Christ: "Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you:" and
therein lies one of the greatest truths of the blessed and eternal
character of Christianity, that it applies to, and satisfies the very
deepest want and craving of