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HOW CHRISTIANS MUST RESPOND TO BARBARISM IN AMERICA


In 1857, Thomas Babbington Macauley, an English historian, author and member of the British parliament, wrote the following in a letter to an American friend: “I seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity as I have described, do things which will prevent prosperity from returning. There will be, I fear, spoliation. The spoliation will increase the distress. The distress will produce fresh spoliation. There is nothing to stop you. Your constitution is all sail and no anchor.” “your republic,” Macauley said, “will be as fearfully plundered and laid to waste by the barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fif