maker is God, while all other societies have been created by man. And the Christian society, thus founded and maintained by God in the midst of a world, where all around it is human and earthly, must have been established for no trivial or ordinary end. What, then, I ask, is the mission of the Church on the earth, and its office in relation to the world? There are three separate considerations, the statement of which may serve to indicate and explain the office of the Christian Church in reference