Christ is the World's Emancipator, for he hath declared that men belong to Him; and an oppressor thus becomes a felon, a robber, and a wronger of God, in the person of every poor and wretched victim!
Beecher proclaims Christ as the liberator of humanity, condemning oppression as a crime against God.
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