ense of justice would dispose men to be content with their
share of the blessings of Providence, and Christian generosity would
prompt the rich to supply the wants of the helpless. The dangers of
useful toil would be diminished. The catalogue of mournful accidents in
flood and field, in mines and factories, would be abridged. Oppression
would cease. The wisest and best would be our legislators and rulers.
Patriots, philanthropists, and philosophers would take the place of
selfish politicians. Political trickery would give place to honorable
statesmanship. All cruel forms of servitude would cease. All wicked laws
would be abolished. All needless burdens would be removed from the backs
of the people. All would be well taught. All dreams of impossible
equality, and all thoughts of violent and bloody revolutions, would pass
away. Vice and crime would disappear, with all the tortures both of mind
and body which they occasion. Commerce would flourish. All nations would
freely and lovingly exchange their surplus products. All classes would
deal with each other honorably. Each one would do to others as he would
that others should do to him. No one would suffer from fraud, or from
the fear of fraud. Trade would be a mutual exchange of benefits.
Business would be a pleasant pastime, gainful to all, and ruinous to
none.

Marriage would be universal, and would prove in every case a comfort and
a blessing. The family circle would be the abode of love, and peace, and
joy. Each home would be a little heaven. Children would be wisely
trained and carefully nurtured in knowledge and piety. The virtues and
the graces would adorn their lives from youth to age. All talent and
skill, the powers of eloquence and of poetry, the influences of music
and of song, and all the powers of art would serve the cause of truth
and virtue, of religion and humanity.

Superstition would die. Unnatural conceptions of God, and cruel,
wasteful, and useless forms of worship, would give place to faith in a
God of light and love, of wisdom and of purity, and to a spiritual,
rational, and rapturous kind of devotion. All ignorant dread of natural
phenomena would give place to joyous and loving admiration, and to
devoutest adoration, of the great eternal Ruler of the world. If
calamities came they would be accepted as divine appointments, as
needful means of everlasting good. Death would lose its terrors. Belief
in a blessed immortality would enable us to pass from