hodists alone, with the smallest
amount of means, have done incalculably more good in fifty years, than
the Unitarians, with unlimited supplies of wealth, and all the
advantages of learning and position, have done in a hundred and fifty
years. We have cast in our lot with the living, working portion of the
Church. It is our home. We had rather be a doorkeeper of the humblest
living, hard-working church in the land, than dwell with the spiritually
dead and cold in the palaces of princes. We will help the men that are
doing the hard and needful work of humanity. If you can see such men as
the Primitive Methodists and the orthodox Churches generally, working as
they _do_ work, and succeeding as they _do_ succeed, and not respect
them and love them, and take part in helping them, you have not the
heart of tenderness and the spirit of Christian manliness for which we
have given you credit.

11. The influence of Christianity cannot be otherwise than beneficial;
nor is it possible that Christianity should become the ruling power on
earth without greatly abating, if not entirely curing the evils of
humanity, and making mankind as happy as their nature and capacities
admit.

Imagine Christianity to be received and reduced to practice by all the
people on earth, what would be the result? Disease would gradually
diminish. Nine-tenths of it would quickly disappear; and life would be
both happier and much longer.

Along with disease would go want, and the fear of want. All would be
well fed, well clad, well housed, and well supplied with all the
necessaries and comforts of life. The world is stored with abundance of
natural wealth. The surface of the earth is vast enough, and its soil is
rich enough, to supply homes and plenty to all its inhabitants, if they
were fifty times as numerous as they are.

Three or four hours a day would be the utmost length of time that men
would need to labor. The cessation of war would set the soldiers free
for productive employment. The peaceful disposition of the people at
home would allow the police forces to devote themselves to useful labor.
The idle classes would set to work, and the wasteful classes would
become economical. A limit would be fixed to the extravagances of
fashion. Things comely and useful would satisfy the desires of both men
and women. The powers of nature would be pressed more generally into our
service, and compelled to do our drudgery both in the mine and on the
farm. A s