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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1864

NO LAW—NO SIN

By M. E. Cornell

Interesting Extracts. No. 1.

Bro. White: Being anxious to cast in my mite toward making the Review interesting, and feeling unqualified to write much more than my simple reports, I propose to furnish under the above heading a few numbers of good extracts, selected from various books and papers, but few if any of which have ever been published in the Review. If all the preaching brethren, will send their good selections to the Review, so that we may all have the benefit of them we should perform the double office of helping each other and the paper at the same time.

M. E. Cornell.

NO LAW—NO SIN.

In A. D. 1541, Luther wrote as follows: “He who pulls down the law, pulls down at the same time the whole frame-work of human polity and society. If the law be thrust out of the church, there will no longer be anything recognized as a sin in the world, since the gospel defines and punishes sin only by recurring to the law.” “I never rejected the law.”—Life of Luther, p. 217.

PERSONALITY OF GOD.

“That the Deity is in human form, was a part of every ancient faith until corrupted by the Greek Philosophy, of all mythology, of Tertullian, and perhaps other fathers of the church.”—History of Denominations, p. 440.

RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.

“The Sibylline Oracles, written some before, and some after A. D. 100, speak of those who were burnt by fire, that God will restore their ashes and bones, and form them again as they were before.”—Hedy on Resurrection, p. 140.

HOW ASTROLOGERS PROPHESY.

Luther remarks: “It is true that astrologers may predict the future, to the ungodly, and announce the death which awaits them, for the Devil knows the thoughts of the ungodly, and has them in his power.”—Life, p. 196.

NO DEATH.

D. W. Clark, who was lately ordained Bishop in the Methodist Church, has written a large work entitled, ‘Man all immortal,’ in which he declares that spirits of the dead can and do communicate to the living. He cites many authors to prove that this has been the faith of the church. Speaking of Death he says:

“We can join with the Poet in saying of our departed friends, ‘These are not dead.’ ‘Tis true, many of them are gone. Singly they came, singly they departed. When their work was done; they lay down to sleep. But never one hath died. Forms may change, but spirit is immortal.” “Death is the crown of life.”—pp. 108, 156.

FALSE PROPHETS.

The following is part of a list of predictions made at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1860, by the spirits, and published by A. J. Davis. The reader will see that it must have come from the Father of Lies.

1. Next winter Congress will get into a fight. Blood will flow.

2. This Nation will be dead as a nation before the 4th of March, next.

3. We will have no more Presidents. The present one (Buchanan) will not serve his time out.

4. The Republican Candidate will get the popular vote, but will not be elected.

5. Canada will enter the new Republic in America.

6. Ohio will be the center of that republic and Cleveland the Capital.

FALSE CHRISTS.

The following resolution was passed in the Binghamton Convention N. Y. March 7th, 8th and 9th, 1862.

“Resolved. That true Spiritualism is the offspring of Progress, the friend of Science, and the real ‘Saviour of the world.’”—Banner of Light, March, 29, 1862.

SPIRITUALISM A DELUSION.

W. F. Jamieson, in discussion at Paw Paw, Michigan, confessed concerning Spiritualism, that “If it be a delusion, it is the most gigantic and terrible that ever has been known.”—Banner of Light, Feb. 7, 1863. Alas! it is even so. See “Strong Delusion.”—Paul.