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THE THREE WAY-MARKS.

It is very necessary that all persons should enquire which of the various religions that are known in the world 1s true and divine. Whichever religion it is that frees men from sin, that is the true religion. Wherefore, they who have been delivered from their sins by the Lord Jesus Christ know by experience that Christianity is trae. Those who have not embracad Christianity and who do not understand its teach­ing cannot know its truth by their own experience, yet they may come to learn that it is true by means of certain ex­

ternal marks and signs which are visible to all.

If a religion comes from the true(rod, who is the em­bodiment of goodness, it will diffuse around many benefits and blessings. Such a religion will tend to promote justice, merey, and other virtues; it will tend to promote educa­tion, civilisation, temporal prosperity, and other worldly bless­inz~. It will also be futed to beeome the universal religion. All persons are able to judse whether the religions to which they belong possess such marks as these. The Supreme Being, who is the common Father of all men, has contirm­ed the truth of Christianity by these marks, in order that all men, whether educated or uneducated, might readily know which 15 the way that leads to heaven. The religions which have been invented by men are destitute of these marks.

Dear friends, you are requested attentively to read the siate­

ments contained in these pages. su that you may clearly un­

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