history is true — and who will dare deny it? — on our fidelity to God and His Christ and Christ's true Church depends the permanency of our republican institutions. God Himself affirms it in Deuteronomy xxviii., and His words are as true of us to-day as they were of Israel: " If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and keep all His commandments, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations on the earth; but if thou wilt not hear the Lord thy God, to do and keep all His commandments, the Lord thy God will bring upon thee a nation from afar and from the uttermost ends of the earth to destroy thee."
