Bro. Geo. Wright writes from Lapeer, Mich.: “Let us show by our every act and word that we have put off the old man with all his deeds, are doing our whole duty, pressing toward the mark for the prize; and though the way be rugged and thorny, and the sea tempestuous, and
‘Though the world look dark before thee,
And the billows may roll o’er thee,
All thy soul with Jesus fill,
Hear him saying, Peace, be still.’
‘My peace I leave with you. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but in me ye shall have peace.’ Press on then, fellow pilgrim, though the storm beat vehemently, and the rain descend, and the floods come. Yea, even though the tempest burst o’er your head, the still small voice can be heard above it all, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end.” Yes, bless his dear name, amid it all,
‘There is a calm, a sure retreat
’Tis found beneath the mercy-seat.’
The peace and safety cry we hear from the false shepherds of the day, lulling thousands to sleep, and the signs of the times admonish us that sudden destruction is at hand; and the solemn warning comes home to God’s waiting people, “Be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
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Using Teams to Attend Sabbath Meeting
By Editor
QUERY.—As we are forbidden to work our teams on the Sabbath, would it be a violation of the Sabbath law to work them for the purpose of going to meeting?
B. McC.
ANSWER.—Let the team be governed by the same principle as the owner. If it is his duty to go to meeting, and a team is necessary for that purpose, let the team be used. Such an exercise could not be called doing "our own work."
QUERY.—Bro. Smith: Will you please explain Rev. xvi, 6, in regard the “saints and prophets?” Will not their blood be shed by those on whom the seven last plagues fall? If you, or some one else, can make that passage harmonize with Rev. xv, 2, and Dan. xii, 1, it will be the means of removing doubts from the minds of some in this place and elsewhere. H. E. G.
ANSWER.—The xviiith chap. of Rev. gives us a description of the destruction of Babylon the great. The last verse contains this remarkable declaration: “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” This destruction of Babylon we understand to be not the final disposition of the wicked at the end of the 1000 years, but her destruction at the coming of Christ. It has reference therefore to the living multitudes which constitute Babylon at that time; and yet it is said that “in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.” What does this mean? It cannot mean that all the blood of the saints which has ever been spilt upon the earth has been shed by the representatives of Babylon now living. It can only mean that they, being a part of great Babylon, are obnoxious to the same guilt which has been chargeable upon Babylon in ages past.
The Scriptures elsewhere speak in the same manner. See Matt. xxii, 29-32. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Verse 35. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
The generation to which this language was addressed, certainly had not poured out all the righteous blood that had been shed from Abel to their day. But they showed by their works, their persecution of the saints, that they were no better than their fathers.
So of those in Rev. xvi, 6, upon whom the seven last plagues come. Their purpose is to rid the earth of the saints of God. This they attempt to do. See Rev. xii, 17; xiii, 15. And though foiled in their purpose by the intervention of God in behalf of his people, that does not alter the degree of their guilt, nor, consequently, the severity of their punishment. The “prophets and saints” brought to view in this scripture are doubtless the same as mentioned in verse 24, of chap. xviii, already noticed, and therefore do not necessarily refer to persons living in the last generation. With this view of the subject, Rev. xvi, 6 harmonizes without difficulty with chap. xv, 2, and Dan. xii, 1.
C. COTTRELL
By James White
QUERY.—Would it be wrong for me, or one of our people, to sue what we call the world’s people, to get our honest dues?
C. COTTRELL
ANSWER.—We think not. Many will take advantage of us, and cheat us out of our dues, if we take the ground that we will not avail ourselves of the law to collect debts. It may be well in some cases to correct such impressions by using the law on the lawless.
J. W.
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