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more closely cementing the ties of nature and the bands of
friendship among ourselves but we are extending our communion
to the church of Christ universal in the East and
West in the South and North we are stretching out the
right hand of fellowship over continents oven oceans
to give the slautation of brotherly love to all who love
our Lord Jesus and to invite men of all colours and of all
languages to cast in their lot amongst us and to take
shelter with us under the shadow of this great rock in
a weary land to repose with us amidst The trees of life
whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.
But is not our fellowship with The Father and
with his Son Jesus Christ? I sit not with them
who are drinking new wine in our Fathers kingdom
with the spirits of Just men made perfect with those
whom on earth we loved with those who have often
eaten & drank with us at this table and with
whom we hope to eat & drink at the table that
is above sitting down with them and with Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven? Delightful
reflection! The employments of earth and heaven
are the same The animating principle the spirit
of love is the same the subject of their praise and
the source of their Joy are the same. Unto Jesus
Christ who is the faithful witness and the first
begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of
the earth Unto him that loved us and washed us from
our sins in his own blood and hath made us kings
and