But we should not expect to revolutionize the public mind at once. Such a thing is impossible in the nature of things, and is not desirable. We could not maintain the position if gained in that way. We desire a healthy and a reliable state of things. Sudden revolutions always leave things in an unsettled state. A gradual change is transcendently better. It is, then, not of impulse, sensation or emotion, but of faith. When the testimony comes to the mind gradually, and the faith becomes stronger and stronger, it finally rises to “the full assurance of faith;” a settled conviction, and the soul is established. But the leaven is working in the meal, much faster than many are aware of, and the mind of the people is changing, and the way is opening more and more. We have never seen a reason for a doubt about the righteousness of the cause, and the possibility of maintaining it, since the day we entered it. We are now as firm in the conviction that it is the only true ground, and the only ground that can be maintained, and the only ground on which all the true Israel of God can unite and stand, as we are that the Bible is a divine book. In all this the past year has furnished additional assurances. NO CAMPBELLITES. There is no such thing in this country as Campbellism, nor is there any such body of people as Campbellites. There is a people in this country that have gone back to our Lord to learn what he gave to the apostles and authorized them to preach, and to the apostles and learned what they preached to the world, and what they taught the church; who receive what the apostles preached and taught, and believe it in full; no more, no less. In this they claim to receive the religion of Christ itself, as he and his authorized ambassadors set it forth. They receive and believe it on the authority of its divine founder, the Lord, from heaven, and enforce it on all who hear them, as the only complete, perfect and divine system in the world; the only true religion; the religion of Christ itself. They claim to be Christians, followers of Christ, children of God. The body to which they belong is simply the body of Christ, the kingdom of God, the church. Christ is their head; their infallibility. They believe on him. They obey him. They hope for all he has promised, and fear all he has threatened. To be in him is to be in his body, in the kingdom, in the church, to be a Christian, a follower of Christ. They receive him and all he has said, but reject all that did not come from him. This is no Campbellism, nor Methodism; but the religion of Christ itself. That is what we are for, and we are for it because it is from God, and has the authority of God in it. CONVERTING THE CITIES.