The Contributor, Vol 1 April, 1880 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Contributor<br/><br/>The stone thrown by the hand of an ungrateful friend was to thee, the kindest cut of all, for, beneath its crushing weight thy faltering knees gave way, and thy proud heart did break. Thy Spirit at last, through the mercy of Christ, passed from thy pain racked body and was made free, alike from the thraldom of Aztec gods, sacrificial stones, Catholic. Images, burning tapers, priests and confession als! Thou art neither bound by idols, nor by a Christianity which offers the olive branch and religion with one hand, and the sword and death with the other. It matters not whether thy ashes rest be neath the cypress groves of Chapultepec, or are mingled with the dust of the once proud capital whose palaces, parks and gardens all marked thy ?eeting greatness, as monuments of fading earthly glory; thy spirit is beyond the reach of living man's false promises, his thirst for gold, or the sting of his treacherous ambition. Through the kindness of others, may you learn there what you never knew here the tender mercy and infinite love of a risen Redeemer.