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By Hiram Bingham

From Bro. Bingham.

DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I am requested to write a word to you respecting the state of general feeling in our Churches as to some expressions made at different times in the Review from your pen respecting the Visions given for the aid of the Church. They feel that by your expressions you have placed a less estimate upon them than the Churches here have, and it has thus brought in some lack of confidence and trials in many minds. They wish you would take the subject into consideration, and if duty demands, make some apology through the Review; that shall be a relief to their minds. Many have been anxiously awaiting such an article from your pen for some time. By your thus doing, you will relieve many an oppressed mind who feels that God's manifestations of favor are a test for his children.

Your brother still striving for life in the coming Kingdom. HIRAM BINGHAM.

A Defense of the Visions

By James White

NOTE.—I gladly embrace this opportunity to express my views of this matter, hoping it will relieve the minds of the Brethren in Vermont and elsewhere, I should have spoken out on this subject before; but I supposed the fact being known that I was in union with the “Address of the Conference” published in No. 10, and my relation to the instrument of the Lord’s choice, were a sufficient excuse for my silence. My position has been one of trial. The relations I have sustained to the work in the rise and progress of the cause of present truth, have exposed me to a thousand thrusts from those who were opposed to the work.

I have ever been slow to speak of Mrs. White’s visions in a public manner; but in consequence of the almost utter silence of those who should have spoken fit words in season, I have felt compelled to speak. And if I have spoken in a manner that has given the idea that I lightly esteemed them, it has not “resulted from an unwillingness to bear the cross of Christ.” It has been in reference to the welfare of the cause that I have spoken and acted, notwithstanding all my errors. In regard to the visions being a test, I confess that I have spoken without fully expressing myself; and if Bro. B. had pointed out the expressions he merely refers to, I should now be able to give a more definite reply.

It is well known that we have been charged with testing all men by the visions, and of making them the rule of our faith. This is a bold untruth, of which those who uttered it were not ignorant. This I have denied, and deny it still. But there need not be so much blind-fold stumbling over this matter. To say unqualifiedly that they are a test, and carry out the principle with those who know nothing of their teachings, spirit and fruit, at this time when the world is full of manifestations as near the genuine as Satan can get up, would be the wildest fanaticism. On the other hand, for those who profess to believe them to say they will in no wise be tested by them, is most irrational. I still say that the Bible is my rule of faith and practice, and in saying this, I do not reject the Holy Spirit in its diversities of operations. If any refer to an expression in a published extract of a letter written to a brother in the West, I would say that that related to those who know but little of the visions save by false reports. I believe them to be the property of the church, and a test to those who believe them from Heaven.

Let those who regard it as their duty, speak out as to their character, spirit and influence; while silence will better become me in regard to them. As to the perpetuity of the gifts I shall speak as God gives me utterance. JAMES WHITE.

Religion in the United States.

[The following presents a melancholy picture of the state of religion in our country. Who can look upon it and doubt that Babylon has fallen?]

A writer in the New York Observer, a year or two since, affirmed “that in 1837 there were thirty-six Churches and 10,860 members of the Presbyterian denomination in the city of New York, and that now, taking the minutes of both assemblies, there are reported but two more Churches and 405 more members notwithstanding the population has more than doubled in that time.”

From statistics recently given in the New York Independent, there are in each of the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, several thousands less members in the Congregational denomination than there were ten years ago. One of the main causes of this diminution is said to be emigration. Yet the inhabitants of those states are now considerably more numerous than at the period referred to. In other New England states there has been no actual diminution of membership; yet the facts, as reported in their religious periodicals, speak with melancholy interest for the spiritual state of all that portion of this nation. As we advance westward from New England, the gloom thickens rather than otherwise.

While on a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio, during the past summer, it was stated to me by an individual who, for upwards of twenty years, has been a pastor of a Church in the vicinity of that city, and whose statements are as reliable as those of any other man, that in all Southern Ohio, the membership in all the Presbyterian Churches is less than it was twenty years ago, while the population and wealth of the same territory have far more than doubled, and that not a few Churches, which at that time had settled pastors, had become extinct. About the same time, the leading religious paper in Southern Ohio stated that in three or four counties in that state, upwards of twenty Churches, once in a flourishing condition, were now languishing, without pastors to break unto them the bread of life. This statement was copied into a religious paper in Chicago, Illinois, with the remark, that it correctly represented the state of the Churches in the West.

In a western Episcopal paper, there appeared the past summer an article under the title, “Where are our youth?” The writer stated that he had traveled extensively among the Churches of that denomination, had attended very large and interesting meetings, and had enjoyed the best opportunity to know the state of facts. Everywhere the same melancholy facts presented themselves—the most marked absence in all meetings, great and small of the youthful portion of the community, of both sexes. He was led to make inquiries of other denominations, and found, without exception, that the same melancholy facts characterized all their religious gatherings of every kind. The article above named was quoted in a New York paper, whose editor subsequently stated to me that it gave a fair representation of the state of our religious congregations generally. For one I would say, that I have traveled quite extensively, and everywhere been an attendant upon the services of the sanctuary, and have everywhere, without expectation, marked the melancholy contrast between the proportion of youth in our religious congregations now and two-and-twenty years ago. Then the galleries of the churches particularly were filled with youth, and at the same time this one class constituted a very large part of the congregations below. Now our galleries are almost entirely forsaken, and the congregation below appeared to be made up of about as many aged and middle aged persons as formerly, with a bare sprinkling of youth among them. To affirm that infidelity is not “advancing with rapid strides among us,” I think would be what the New York Observer would not dare to do.

It is now confidently affirmed that there are known to be more than two millions of Spiritualists in this country at the present time, and these, almost without exception, are of infidel sentiments. Then our German populations are, to a very great and increasing extent, infidel. Various forms of philosophical scepticism contain a very large and increasing portion of the popular literary talent of the nation. To complete the picture, while our religious assemblies appear as above stated, the reading of the nation is almost wholly secular, irreligious, and fictitious, while our theatres and places of popular amusement are continuously crowded. If I have drawn the picture a shade too dark, it is because the most reliable sources of information, verified by my own personal observations, have deceived me. Nor at the present moment, do I know of any indications of any immediate change for the better. The religious press but very seldom informs us of spiritual gatherings, and that for the obvious reason, that occurrences of the kind to be chronicled are no few and far between.

One circumstance, indicative of the state of things under consideration, I had forgotten to name—the greatest dearth of ministers; not a few of our Churches have no ministers, for the reason that pastors to minister to them cannot be obtained. We have a far less number of young men in our Churches than formerly, and never was there a time when so small a proportion even of this class are willing to enter the ministry. The idea of becoming rich, not “towards God,” but in worldly goods, has become the leading idea of the American mind. Every man is ready to “compass sea and land” for wealth, and few to run to and fro for the increase of Divine knowledge. Our missionaries abroad are dying with great rapidity, and it is hardly possible to keep their numbers good by new enlistments.

I said there appeared but few indications of an immediate change for the better. I will dwell for a moment upon this one thought. In our religious papers we occasionally meet with articles containing notes of warning, and reminding the churches of the necessity of an out-pouring of the Spirit from on high. I see little, however, of that deep and solemn earnestness and fervency of spirit which are indispensable to startle and arouse a slumbering Church. Similar remarks appear to characterize our pulpit discourses generally. The times demand earnest men, and, with few exceptions, we have them not. Generally speaking, our pulpit services seem to have a spiritual languidness about them, which is more alarming than the deep slumbers of the Churches and congregations, upon whose closed ears enfeebled notes of warning fall with an increasingly alarming effect. There is another very general fact which to my mind, has great significance, but which gives no indication of an immediate change for the good. While our churches are spiritually dying, there never was such a willingness to pull down present houses of worship, and rear up in their stead most elegant and costly structures. At one time, about a year since, for example, in a city of about 40,000 inhabitants, more than 300,000 dollars were being laid out upon such structures. While these extravagant expenditures were being laid out in that city, for such an object it required a space of four or five years of diligent effort to raise among all these churches, and those in the country around, the sum of two thousand dollars to furnish a chapel for the sailors of that port.

The seats in the churches are so costly that none but the wealthy can purchase or rent them; and the poor know very well that their rich neighbors would not welcome them to seats with them in their religious assemblies. The result is, that in our cities and large towns our Churches generally visibly present this one indication of their real relations to Christ, to wit, that in them the poor have not “the Gospel preached unto them,” and this relates moreover, and most of all, to more infidelity, which is everywhere bristling up to the reproach not only of the Churches, but of Christianity also. While this state of things shall continue, the masses in our cities must continue subject to influences utterly irreligious and demoralizing. While the Churches can be justly reproached with valuing men and seeking to bring them into houses of worship, not because they have souls, but because, and almost only when, they have money, the masses of Churches themselves will be objects of scorn and derision, such as they undeniably now are to a very great extent in this country. For such reasons infidelity and irreligion, and the consequent immoralities, are now having the masses for their prey.

I should not fail to allude to the character of the sacred music in these churches. With very few exceptions, we have, in this country, no congregational singing. In former years, this part of worship, was under the control, generally, of large choirs. To meet the demands of the rich, for whom our churches seem now to be built, these choirs are now supplanted by a select number of hired singers, the number in the largest churches seldom exceeding six, and commonly consisting of four, and these, in the style of their performances, copy the opera. The result is—that no discerning mind could fail to predict—the death of the little spiritual emotion and affection which formerly existed in such congregations.

I mention but one additional circumstance, a circumstance of melancholy significance to my mind. The leading influences in our churches, instead of addressing themselves to remedy the appalling evils around us, have assumed the aspect and spirit of intense denominationalism. Those who have had but a glimpse at our Presbyterian and Congregationalist papers of late will understand what I mean. The Presbyterians have set forward a great movement for Presbyterianizing the great West; at this Congregationalists have taken the alarm, and the public mind is agitated with the question, not how shall the nation be saved from the second death, but which denomination

shall prevail. I think that the facts to which I have just alluded may be taken as indicative of the spirit of the leading denominational influences in our country. You can judge of the probable results. But why, it may be asked, is this exposure made supposing it to reveal facts as they are? I must reserve the answer to such a question for another communication.—Am. Cor. to the London Christian Times.

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BRO. N. MEAD writes from Washington, N. H.:—“We are still striving to obey God in keeping his commandments. We are decided never to give over the struggle until we are overcomers. The present truth is still precious. The Kingdom and eternal life we trust will ever be our watchword till Jesus comes. We desire that the truth may spread till the number is made up that shall stand on Mount Zion.”

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To the Messengers.

By E. Rowley

THERE is a famine here—not of bread, but of the word of the Lord. If some faithful messenger could come this way giving meat in due season, starving souls might be saved alive to swell the song of redeeming grace in the Kingdom.

In behalf of the church in Vienna and Westport, Dane Co., Wisconsin. E. ROWLEY.

Judge Not.

By J. P. Rathbun

“Judge not that ye be not judged,” Was the counsel Christ did give; For the measure that is given, Is the same we must receive. J. P. RATHBUN.

The Review “Sectarian.”

By James White

UNDER this head we noticed in the REVIEW of Dec 4, the decision of some in Wisconsin that the REVIEW was “sectarian,” because it has not published on the “Age to come.” We then mentioned one reason why the REVIEW had been silent on that question; which was, our interview with Elds. Hall and Stephenson, June, 1854, and the agreement at that time to waive the subject, as not being present truth, and not essential to salvation. To that agreement the REVIEW adhered, up to the time it was denounced as sectarian, with the exception of one re-published article in our absence, for which we then offered an apology in the REVIEW. For this reason Bro. Edson’s article remained in the Office near six months, without being fully read, and published. For the same reason we suppressed our views of the time when the kingdom of God will be set up on the earth, in the work on the Prophecy of Daniel. See remarks on chap. ii.

We are now convinced that the REVIEW should ever have been free from all compromise with those who hold error, and should ever have been as free to speak out, when necessary, on those subjects which bear on the Age to Come, as it now does. Thank God that the REVIEW is now a “free paper.” But our desire to unite with all who professed the Third Message, and our confidence in the integrity of the persons named, led us too far. While our only object was to save the flock a trial on this subject, if possible, that the work of gathering souls to the truth be not hindered, we could have no fears as to the triumph of the truth on this question.

We have seen the sad effects of what is called the Age to Come in past time. Whoever it has been received, it has proved destructive of living faith in the present truth. For a while the work in the West moved on gloriously, and many embraced the Message; but since Age to Come has been attached to it, but little, if any, real advance has been made. And while some who should stand in the fore-front of the cause of truth are absorbed in the Future Age, others have sunk down in discouragement, and the cause in the West languishes in consequence. And while the harvest-field is all white for the sickle, and scores of souls would embrace the truth, if our preachers could enter new fields, (the result of Bro. Cornell’s labors for a few weeks in bringing about forty to observe the Sabbath is a fair illustration,) some of them are obliged to occupy old fields to counteract wrong influences from those who are departing from the letter and spirit of the Message. Our fears were not groundless. We are now seeing in part the sad result of introducing Age to Come. But as the discussion of that subject was inevitable, we rejoice that it has come, that it may be disposed of at as early a date as now possible.

But we do here protest against the course of those who raise the cry of “Sectarianism” against the REVIEW, and brand its friends as “Visionists,” having departed from the Word, and by the aid of prejudice gotten up in this way, crowd in their Age to Come. The REVIEW was silent on this subject on account of the agreement referred to, and when the Editor was inquired of at a later date whether he would, or would not publish on that subject, he referred the inquirer to the Publishing Committee, saying he would abide their decision. The Committee were never inquired of; neither did the REVIEW reject any article on the Age to Come, for none were sent for publication. Yet the REVIEW was denounced at a certain conference in Wis., as “Sectarian,” and a vote passed to stop it. If that was not a sectarian, crushing spirit, then men never possessed such a spirit. We offered to discuss the subject of the Age to Come, with Eld. D. P. Hall, last April, by the use of Tracts; this he declined. No, the REVIEW must bow to their terms, or they seek to crush it. It is painful to notice this unhappy matter, but the cause demands that facts should appear. We have seen these things acted over for the last ten years till they are nothing new. We have marked the course of a class of selfish persons who regard every thing that does not bow to their notion of things as sectarian, and seek to accomplish their selfish purposes under the cry of Sectarianism, while in themselves exists more of the narrow-souled, sectarian exclusiveness, than is often found in one whole branch of Babylon.

If the REVIEW had published all that has been sent to the Office, it would have appeared with as much confusion upon its pages, as existed when language was confounded at the tower of Babel. The mass of manuscripts we have received would furnish a theological museum. One sent us many pages which he calls the “flying roll” of Zechariah, he being Joshua the high priest, and Satan at his right hand; another many pages subscribed, “Jesus Christ.” We give these as examples of the mass. The Review has never announced that its columns were open for every thing that might float through the channel of the Mail. When it does, there will be no further need of Editors. It is true that faithful brethren have written articles which were good, with few exceptions, which have not been published; but it is those of the class above mentioned who raise the cry of sectarianism against the Review. In the M. such find what they call freedom; but in the eyes of all consistent Christians it must be regarded as the use of “freedom for a cloak of maliciousness,” rather than the freedom of the gospel of Christ.

Some have tried this freedom and found it to exist in word, instead of deed. Because we did not publish all the articles of H. Baringer of Troy, N. Y., he considered the Review “Sectarian,” and in the M. of Nov. 30, 1854, said, “I wish no union with any party who deprive me of freedom of speech and free discussion. . . . I find the spirit of Popery or covetousness quite extensively prevailing among the Advent Review party. I have reason to believe that some of that party wish to hear what further light might be given respecting the third message, but the leaders have withheld it.” In a letter to this Office, Feb. 22, 1855, he says, “I was with the M. party till I saw they were lacking in freedom and liberty as I supposed, or as you had shown the Review to be. . . . I am therefore more with the Review party again,” &c. We would help such men, but they seem to be past help, from this fact, “They won’t be helped.” It is a pity that such are not willing to go off in a party by themselves and no more trouble those who wish to teach and obey the truth in peace and quiet.

It is well known that Ransom Hicks of Providence, R. I., has been associated with the friends of confusion, as one of their Publishing Committee, and has spoken freely. He had not as good an opportunity to learn them as we. In a letter to this Office, dated Feb. 7, 1855, speaking of some who write for the M. he says, “They talk considerably about the Review being sectarian. I wish those who thus speak had had even as much experience or knowledge of the prime leaders of that paper as I have had. My experience however concerning them has been very limited in comparison to what it might have been. I am not saying the Review is not sectarian, nor that it is; but if I could speak to those who speak through the M. calling the Review sectarian, I should be likely to say in virtue. Let him that hath glass windows beware how he throws stones at his neighbors.”

In regard to the recent effort of Eld. Stephenson, to evade the force of our statements referred to in No 10, we would say that we have hardly considered it necessary to notice them, as the article bears on its face its own refutation. We will however notice the main feature of it in the following order.

He labors to show that the theory called “The Age to Come,” and his views of the future age, are very different.
That it has ever been far from him to compromise, or to waive any point that he regarded as truth. That it was not his views, but March’s Age to Come, that we agreed to waive and not publish in the Review.
Conclusion Then we agreed to waive and not publish in the Review, a view of the future age which neither of us believed!! “O, consistency, thou art a rare jewel.”

J. W.

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