is useful in maintaining order until the period shall arrive to supersede it by “wisdom and knowledge”, which will be the stability of the times pertaining to the kingdom of God.a But as a means of inheriting this kingdom, and of entitling men to the crown of righteousness, a religion which works by terror is utterly worthless. Remove the terror, and the religion’s gone; except in so far, indeed, as the possession of it is necessary to the preservation of its “temporalities”, “vested interests”,