,--that proud day, when not only
"throughout all the land," but throughout the civilized world, liberty
shall be proclaimed "unto all the inhabitants thereof." Hasten its
advent, "O Thou that hearest prayer," and that "delightest in mercy!"
Amen and Amen.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] An extended passage containing the extract may be found conveniently
in Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English Literature, vol. 2, p. 246.

[B] Genesis, 10th Chapter. Vide, Kitto's Cyclopaedia, for views in this
connection.

[C] Col. 4:1; "Ye masters, give unto your servants that which is just
and equal." That is, act towards them on the principles of justice and
equity. Justice requires that all their rights, as men, as husbands, and
as parents, should be regarded. And these rights are not to be
determined by the civil law, but by the law of God.... But God concedes
nothing to the master beyond what the law of love allows. Paul requires
for servants not only what is strictly just, but [Greek: ten isoteta].
What is that? Literally, it is _equality_. This is not only its
signification, but its meaning. Servants are to be treated by their
masters on the principles of equality. Not that they are to be equal
with their masters in authority or station or circumstances; but that
they are to be treated as having, as men, as husbands, and as parents,
equal rights with their masters. It is just as great a sin to deprive a
servant of the just recompense for his labor, or to keep him in
ignorance, or to take from him his wife or child, as it is to act thus
towards a free man. This is the equality which the law of God demands,
and on this principle the final judgment is to be administered. Christ
will punish the master for defrauding the servant as severely as he will
punish the servant for robbing his master. The same penalty will be
inflicted for the violation of the conjugal or parental rights of the
one as of the other. For, as the apostle adds, there is no respect of
persons with him. At his bar the question will be, "What was done?" not
"Who did it?" Paul carries this so far as to apply the principle not
only to the acts, but to the temper of masters. They are not only to act
towards their servants on the principles of justice and equity, but are
to _avoid threatening_. This includes all manifestation of contempt and
ill temper, or undue severity. All this is enforced by the consideration
that masters have a Master in heaven, to whom they are responsible for