cruel, but immense beyond our conception, prevailing everywhere, and so deeply rooted in laws, manners, ideas and interests, indivi dual and social, that its immediate eradica tion might have convulsed the world. Sue* was tha state of things which Chris tianfty found upon the earth. Inspired by the enno bling Impulses of humanity, and upheld by the courage which springs from the con sciousness of strength, the Church could not