To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 27, 1869

To Correspondents.

WM. JAMES: A woman is used in the Scriptures as a symbol of a church, good or bad. The little horn of the fourth beast, Paul's Man of Sin, and John's leopard beast, symbolize the Roman church, if not in full, at least in a very important, constituent element. And while a feminine pronoun is used in speaking of the church under the symbol of a woman, it would not be proper to use the same pronoun when it is represented under another symbol. The symbol determines the pronoun to be used.

J. McMILLAN: The spiritualizing tendencies of the writer in the Family Treasure, look to us too utterly groundless and silly to merit the sober consideration of a review. A man who will apply the sublime Bible descriptions of the passing away of the heavens and the earth, to the closing up of the old dispensation, and the language, "there was no more sea," to the fact that the brazen sea of the ceremonial service was no longer used! and the creation of the new heavens and the new earth, to the introduction of the gospel dispensation, and the New Jerusalem with its rectangular construction, its jasper wall, its twelve gates, its golden streets, its tree and river of life, and its throne of God, to the church, and the hearts of men,—a man, we say, who will make such an application, is beyond hope of benefit for himself, and beyond the danger of injuring any one who prefers a sober and sound interpretation of the Bible, to the mystical mutterings of those who are reeling under the influence of the wine of Babylon.