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no more truth or love, for love has grown cold because unrighteousness has gained the upper hand. The truth lies trampled in the streets, says the ProphetA reference to Isaiah 59:14: "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.", and is missing, says David; there is no longer any truth or knowledge of God in the land.

The worst of all is that people hardly desire the truth anymore, nor wish to tolerate it. Nevertheless, one must not cease to remind people of their duty, especially those who call themselves Christians, but who now more than ever bring shame upon their name and are the cause of the name of Christoriginal: "Christi" being blasphemed among the Heathensoriginal: "Heydenen"; a term historically used by Christians to describe those of other faiths or no faith. and the Jews. It is with justification that they object to such people, saying that their lives make their faith suspicious, and that the morals of Christians repel them as much as Christ might otherwise draw them to Himself and bring them closer.

Those who do not live as true Christians cannot answer to this. The first Christians were said to be a living letter of ChristAn allusion to the New Testament (2 Corinthians 3:2-3), where the apostle Paul describes the faithful as letters written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, intended to be "read" by everyone through their actions., seen and read by all people, written not in dead and un-