punishment due to him? Did death, with one sweep of his scythe, cut down the whole of rebellious humanity? No; that which God desired was not the satisfaction of the demands of His justice by the effusion of torrents of blood; it was the revelation to the conscience of men of those demands which they had refused to recognise; it was the willing acknowledgment of them by that conscience itself. And why was this? Because herein lies the true restitution for wrong committed; and herein, consequently,