JOS. CLARKE by JOS. CLARKE.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1873

JOS. CLARKE

By JOS. CLARKE.

Fables.

If you would attempt to prove that the sun shines, there are those who would oppose you in argument, merely for the sake of argument. So when you would show that the moral law, or the decalogue, is perpetual, you will find those who will, with one single effort, bind up this holy law with the Jewish typical system, and throw it all overboard.

The third chapter of Galatians, and 16th verse, states that Christ came to redeem us from the curse of the law; that is, he came to redeem us from its penalty, or consequences, (he) being made a curse for us, (that is) he endured the penalty.

To say that he came to redeem us from the moral law, and thus annihilate the decalogue, calling it a curse, seems to us nothing short of blasphemy.

The moral law a curse! the ten commandments a curse! the decalogue a curse! Horrible perversion of morality! Do not these commandments form the basis of all morality? Is not the whole system of common law founded upon the precepts of the moral law? and does not every Sunday-school, and every Christian family, teach these precepts to the young?

Let it be the prayer of every friend of truth that error may be speedily rebuked. How long, O Lord, shall fables be proclaimed from the pulpit and the press? Oh! that voices might arise from every hill, and valley, and plain, from every place where error is taught, that would be full of mighty power, confuting error, dispensing light, scattering darkness. Our ears are pained from week to week, as we hear heathenish doctrines proclaimed seriously as Bible truth.