Book Notice by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1858

Book Notice.

By Editor

THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GOD AND MAN: Its origin, progress, and termination, By H. L. Hastings, 1 Vol. pp. 167, neatly bound in cloth, price 60 cts., paper, 50 cts.

A copy of this work we have received from the Author. It contains a general outline of the more prominent events that have transpired along the stream of time, common to both prophecy and history. It abounds in graphic descriptions, showing the futility on the part of man of a controversy with his Maker—showing how God with an outpouring of divine vengeance cut short the controversy with the Antediluvians, the Sodomites, the Egyptians, the Canaanites, the Ninevites, the Babylonians, &c.—and showing, finally, the great issue of this controversy, and the cessation of man's rebellion in the indiscriminate overthrow and ruin of the enemies of the Lord. And while every one must close the volume with a vivid sense of the manner in which the controversy will close in the triumph of the power and justice of God, and the certainty of this issue, we could wish that the author had dwelt more at length on the points of man's rebellion, and the terms of reconciliation. When he speaks of the way we may approach to "a more glorious mercy-seat," of the position of Christ "in the heavenly places," and of the "ark of God's testament" seen in the temple of heaven, we could wish he had reminded the revolters of a certain law that reposes in that ark, beneath that mercy-seat, which is the constitution of God's government, and upon which hinges the whole controversy between him and man. Had man never broken God's law, there would have been no controversy; but man rebelled; and the controversy commenced: he persists in disobedience, and the controversy continues. And it will continue until the repentant few, who have been willing to turn and yield obedience to God's just requirements, and seek through faith in Christ forgiveness of their past transgressions, receive the reward of their faithfulness, and the disobedient are wiped out of the universe as the just desert of their deeds.

We designed to give the reader a specimen of the character and style of the work, by a short extract from its pages, but have not room in this No. Those who desire to peruse it, can obtain it of the author, Rochester, N. Y.