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bestowment
1. It is the spiritual renewal of God's holy image, and with it the concurrent bestowment of that literal eternal life in body and soul which was annexed to the right to the Tree of Life in Paradise, and which was forfeited by sin
2. The 'sprinkling of His blood’ is the pardon of sin; the bestowment of freedom from 'condemnation, by that law whose sentence is death
3. Had it pleased the Almighty Power to bring such a race into existence under the circumstances supposed, the heirs of damnation to an eternal misery which they had themselves done nothing to deserve—the bestowment of redemption, and of the opportunity of salvation from the direful doom, would assume an aspect of simple righteousness; and the withholding of such salvation would have been to lay open the Divine Government to the darkest imputations of wrong and cruelty from all minds constituted like our own
4. Within a few weeks our tars have thrice grappled with the enemy, and thrice have they triumphed in combat; the success has swelled the American bosom with joy from Orleans to Maine—all without exception of party, vie in demonstrations of joy and in the bestowment of honors upon the victors