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France needed revolution, as America did, and had she engaged in it, with
as pious reliance upon God, "and with the hearts of her people deeply
imbued with the morality of the Bible, the scion of liberty, carried in
the honored Lafayette from this country," would have taken deep root, and
spread forth its branches; and ere this time the fairest portion of Europe
might have reposed under its shadow. But her principles poisoned her
morals, and her immorality disqualified her for freedom. After expending
an incredible amount of treasure, and sacrificing more than two million of
men, she consented to be ruled by a despot in hope of some protection from
her own people, and in hope of some security against the animal which she
had unchained.

With such facts before us, let us Americans decide, not merely as
Christians, but as "patriots and fathers," whether we will cling to the
pure "Gospel of Jesus Christ," given to us in the love of Heaven, and in
the blood of Jesus, rather than accept in its stead the empty, Godless,
Christless, good-for-nothing negative of God and Christ and Christianity.
The chief article in the unbeliever's creed is in these words, "I believe
in all unbelief."

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Will not our friends take interest enough in the JOURNAL to increase its
circulation. There is no reason why it should not be immediately doubled,
and thus placed upon a solid basis. It is our intention to make it a
thorough defense of the truth, so much so that all will relish it, and
remember it with delight.

THE STRUGGLE.

"Passion riots; reason then contends,
And on the conquest every bliss depends."

There are two different periods in the history of the race; in the history
of a nation; in the history of the church; in the history of moral
institutions, and in the history of families. In one the intellect
predominates, governs; in the other the emotional nature, or passion,
rules. The fatal day in the history of a nation is the day in which,
through party strife or otherwise, a nation of people becomes a seething
mass of heated passion. Such a nation is like a vessel tossed upon the
waves above the falls of some mighty river, liable to be buried in the
whirlpool of destruction. Men who are governed by their emotional nature
are most liable to disappointments, to troubles, and difficulties of every
kind. Select all the miserable families in your community,