True Democrat

ALLEGORY.—When the Almighty was about to create man, he summoned around his secret throne to council, his attendant angels, the highest guards of his kingdom. "Create him not," said the angel justice: "he will be unkind towards his brother, severe and cruel to the weak." "Create him not" said the angel of peace; "he will manure the earth with the blood of men; the first born of the race will slay his brother."— "Thine holiness he will profane with lies," pursued the angel of truth, altho' thou shouldest imprint on his countenance thine image, the likeness of truth itself." So spoke all the attendant angels of Jehovah, when mercy the eternal Father's youngest and dearest child, approached his throne and bowed before it. "Father," said she, "make man after thine image: the cherished object of thy mercy and goodness; when all thy angels forsake him I will seek him out and remain with him, and turn even his faults to good; even by his own weakness will I incline his heart to sympathise and bear with the infirmities of others. If he forsake the ways of peace and truth; if he sin against justice and equality the very consequence of his error shall render him more meek and amiable."

The father of the universe hearkened to her and made man a weak, erring creature; but with a pupil of mercy, the son of that divine love which never leaves him.

Remember thine origin, O, man; when thou would be cruel and unjust to others; mercy hath chosen thee, and thou art the nursling of compassion and love.

Krummacher.