against its powerful adversaries. But it was of God. That was the secret. A certain writer has well said: “On the day of Pentecost, Christianity faced the world, a new religion—without a college, a people, or a patron. All that was ancient and venerable rose up before her in solid opposion. And she did not flatter or conciliate any one of them. She assailed every existing system, and every bad habit, burning her way through innumerable forms of opposition. This she accomplished with her “tongue of