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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1857

COMMUNICATIONS.

By Editor

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another."

From Bro. Carter.

BRO. SMITH:—It appears I have made a mistake with regard to Eld. B. Webb's view of the Third Angel's Message. Last Fall I wrote in a letter to the Review office that Eld. Webb contended that the Third Angel's Message is in the future. I so understood him; but he contends that it is a mistake. He claims that he said, In the past, and not in the future. Therefore I wish to correct it through the Review, that those who have read my letter may know that it is a mistake. I will gladly make all my wrongs right when I can see them.

I have started for the kingdom, and mean to go through, and enter through the gates into the city. I believe we are almost there. We are now thirteen years in the judgment, and I believe the Lord is about to judge the living saints. O that my sins might go to judgment beforehand. I want to be of that blessed and holy number that will have part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. But will our happiness stop then? No, praise the Lord! We have an eternity to spend in glory; for of Christ's kingdom there shall be no end. Luke i, 33.

The Review is still a welcome visitor. I hail with joy its weekly returns, and hope it may be sustained until the Lord comes. I remain your unworthy brother in Christ. A. G. CARTER. Rubicon, Wis., March 15th, 1857.

From another portion of Bro. Carter's letter we extract the following:

"When this Eld. Webb came to this place he professed to take the word of God for the rule of his faith, and said if he could see the light on the Sabbath, he would keep it. Therefore we all sympathized with him as a brother, hoping he would soon embrace the Sabbath. But alas! when we presented the Scriptures, he was not what we took him to be. He said he knew all about it, that we could tell him nothing about it; for he had been through it all at the East; that he was not so easily caught. He also spoke sneeringly of there being a Sanctuary in heaven covered with badger-skins, &c. I replied that God chose such articles for the earthly as pleased him—that it was not necessary for the earthly to be of the very same material, but that the same apartments and similar furnishing were necessary. He claimed that the pattern showed to Moses was like the draft of a building on paper."

It appears then that Eld. Webb thinks that the heavenly Sanctuary must be covered with badger-skins, &c., because such was the material used on the earthly, while in its movable condition. Indeed! We would ask him then what material was used on the Sanctuary when the tabernacle gave place to the temple? We find that boards of cedar were then employed, overlaid with gold. See 1 Kings vi, 14-22. But was not the earthly Sanctuary in this form as much a type of the heavenly Sanctuary as the tabernacle in the wilderness? Certainly; for it was made from a revealed pattern as well as the former. See 1 Chron. xxviii, 11-13, 19. Then let him henceforth cease to sneer about a Sanctuary of badger-skins in heaven, while we put a mark upon his sagacity or honesty.—Ed.