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Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 41.

O Love of God!

Review and Herald

Oct 8, 1908

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 8, 1908

O Love of God!

By Horatius Bonar

O Love of God! how strong and true, Eternal, and yet ever new; Uncomprehended and unbought, Beyond all knowledge and all thought!
O heavenly Love! how precious still, In days of weariness and ill, In nights of pain and helplessness, To heal, to comfort, and to bless!
O wide-embracing, wondrous Love! We read thee in the sky above; We read thee in the earth below, In seas that swell, and streams that flow.
We read thee best in Him who came To bear for us the cross of shame; Sent by the Father from on high, Our life to live, our death to die.
O Love of God! our shield and stay Through all the perils of our way; Eternal Love, in thee we rest, Forever safe, forever blest.
—Horatius Bonar.

The New Prophetic Chart

Revised and Enlarged

Showing all the Principal Prophetic Symbols of Daniel and Revelation, Designed Especially for Ministers and Bible Workers
THE “New Prophetic Chart” represents the product of over a year’s work in corresponding, planning, and executing. We have been ably aided by suggestions and drawings from our brethren in the ministry, and the result speaks well for the painstaking efforts put forth. Every energy was bent to make this prophetic chart meet the demands of both ministers and Bible workers.
The lithographing was done by August R. Ohman & Co., New York City, long recognized as one of the leading map publishers of the United States. The new chart is twice the size of the old one. It is lithographed in five colors on a very fine quality of unglazed muslin, thus making it possible to fold the chart without hurting it in any way. With ordinary wear it will never be necessary to purchase another.
Every detail in the manufacture has been carefully watched. The symbols have all been redrawn, and the Bible description carefully followed. For instance: Of the ten-horned beast mentioned in Daniel 7 the Bible says: “In this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Other charts have shown a head on one of the horns, but in this one we have shown the features of a man in the horn.
Each point in the description has been carefully noted, and everything done to make the chart perfect as far as possible. We have arranged Daniel 2, 7, and 8 chronologically in parallel columns. The absence of a symbol for Babylon in chapter 8 left a blank space, which we filled with the symbol of the Apostate Church. This and the illustration of the United States are therefore out of chronological order. The symbols are large enough to be easily distinguished from any part of an ordinary sized lecture-hall or tent.
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Last-Day Conditions

EVEN those who hold what we regard as unscriptural views concerning the nature of the second advent are able to discern clearly the fulfilment of those statements in prophecy which mark the coming of the Lord as near. Thus in the current issue of a magazine which teaches what is known as “the rapture” doctrine, and the return of the Jews, we find a forcible application of those passages which describe religious conditions just previous to the second advent. We quote the following:—
From the beginning of this age the mystery of iniquity has already worked. Error and evil have developed from the very start; but as the age nears its close, all becomes more pronounced, more intense. Let us see first what these predictions are. We find them mostly in epistles which were written after the year sixty. About that time evil showed itself very strongly in the church; false doctrines came up, and ate like a canker. Then the Holy Spirit gave a solemn warning against the encroaching evils, and predicted that the evil begun would develop throughout the age till the last times are reached. He predicted then what should be in the days immediately before the coming of our Lord.
The predictions speak of denial. The spirit that produces the latter-day conditions is the spirit that negates, the spirit of disobedience. We can group these predictions around six things:—
1. Denial of the faith.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons.” 1 Tim. 4: 1. The epistle which unfolds the conditions in the last days more than any other, the epistle of Jude, exhorts to contend earnestly for the faith, because the faith will be denied. “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude, verse 3.
2. Denial of sound doctrine.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Tim. 4: 3.
3. Denial of the power of godliness, and therefore unholy living.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such turn away.” 2 Tim. 3: 1-5.
4. Denial that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
“Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” 1 John 4: 3.
5. Denial of the Lord himself.
“But there are false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” 2 Peter 2: 1.
6. Denial of authority.
This is given in the epistle of Jude. There the way of apostasy is described. It begins with the way of Cain, continues with the error of Balaam, and ends with rebellion like that of Core. And it is written:—
“Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignitaries.” Jude 8.
From these predictions we learn that all that which God has revealed will be denied. Everything in the faith is included. The denial of the Bible as the Word of God, the denial of the person of Christ, his deity, his virgin birth, the denial of his miracles, his sinlessness, the denial of his atoning work on the cross, his resurrection, his presence with the Father in glory, and his coming again. Then we have the denial of sound doctrine, such as the absolute necessity of the new birth, the corruption of human nature, the denial of the work of the Holy Spirit, the denial of the eternal punishment of the wicked, and the denial of every other sound doctrine. Then, as a result, an increase of worldliness, unholy-living, loving money and pleasures more than God, ending in rebellion and the fullest opposition against God. All this is predicted for the last times, the closing days of the church on earth.
It is only necessary to take note of some of the so-called religious teaching of the present day in order to find evidence that this description of last-day conditions is now fully met. Since the rejection of the second advent doctrine, which began to be presented to the churches three fourths of a century ago, the course of apostasy has been rapid. What passes for Christian doctrine today would rightly have been labeled infidelity in the days of William Miller and his associates.
The denials of true doctrine constitute in themselves a call for the teaching of “the everlasting gospel” in its purity, that by this means there may be a gathering out of a remnant who shall be ready to meet the Lord when he returns.

The Hollow Square

By W. A. S.

A FAVORITE battle formation to meet an attack from superior numbers is that of the hollow square. Shoulder to shoulder and back to back, facing toward four sides, the hollow square is a hard thing for the enemy to break.
By this formation at Waterloo, Wellington met the assaults of the French. Napoleon said of those lines of British troops: “I covered them with artillery; I flooded them with infantry; I deluged them with calvary; but when the smoke of battle was lifted, there stood the red line yet.”
The lines of our own work stretch out four-square to meet the final assaults of the enemy of truth. There are just four leading departments of work,—the evangelistic, the educational, the publishing, and the medical missionary departments.
On one side or the other of this four-square formation every one prepared to engage in the service may find a place. No power of the enemy can break through the united front presented on all sides, as the workers stand loyal and true to the message. Each department of the work, each side of the square, stands not only for itself but for the whole.
Thank God for one great system of truth, four-square and complete, given us in these last days, and for the united advent movement, organized on the very lines of that truth to carry the last message to the world. W. A. S.

Editorial

By Editor

ALL that heaven gave it gave that man might be again dowered with his lost estate, and that sin and sorrow might cease to be; all that Christ suffered he suffered for that purpose—not that he might condemn, but that he might save. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely.”

The Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America

By C. M. S.

State Constitutions and Freedom of Conscience

From the birth of the colonies to the birth of the nation the consciences of men were struggling for freedom from the merciless grasp of a religious system made powerful and oppressive by its unholy wedlock with the secular power. The battle in each colony was waged for the same principle and against the same foe, and yet the result was achieved in a different way in each colony, and that difference manifested itself later in the constitutions of the different States, when statehood had been reached. Some of the men who labored for the recognition of the rights of conscience in the State constitutions carried on the same struggle for its recognition in the federal Constitution. Some of the State constitutions were adopted previous to the federal Constitution and some later. It can not be laid down, as a general proposition, therefore, that the federal Constitution drew its inspiration from the State constitutions or served entirely as their example. All these documents grew out of the same great struggle, which was going on in all the colonies at the same time. Nevertheless, it can not be denied that the Declaration of Independence planted germinant truths which did bloom into constitutions, both State and federal. Concerning this document, Mr. A. T. Innes, in his work entitled “Religious Liberty,” says:—
On 4th July, 1776, their representatives met in Congress, and prefixed to their Declaration of Independence a statement of principles such as had hitherto been found only in the works of thinkers, theorists, and men under persecution: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
In all the State constitutions those principles are found differently expressed, but practically identical, and plainly indicative of common origin. The doctrine of the equality of man, if adhered to, was certain to develop into religious liberty; for two men can not be equal if one has a right to dictate the religious obligations and practises of the other, or formulate a declaration of belief to which the other must subscribe. But even with the adoption of that great principle as the guiding star of the new nation, that grander liberty—the liberty of mind and soul—did not receive recognition in the individual State constitutions without individual State struggles. There has always been in this country an element that has stood for the doctrine of civil oversight of things religious and religious control of things civil—a paradox in statement and a Babel in action. That element contended as strongly against the separation of church and state as the Tories ever did against the separation of the colonies from the mother country. The Tories, however, have ceased to be, but that element has never ceased, and continues even to-day to agitate for a return to the principles that antagonized soul liberty in colonial days.
Our federal Constitution, drafted in 1787, was declared by Mr. William E. Gladstone to be “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” That document, in the matter of the religious rights of mankind, speaks plainly in its declaration that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States,” and also in its first amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
In that first-quoted declaration the national government accepts the principle that every man has the right to choose for himself what religion he will profess, or whether he will profess any religion at all; while in the second the national government recognizes the principle that religion is a field into which human law can enter only to trespass. Against such trespass that amendment is a prohibition upon the national legislature, and must stand as a protest wherever State legislatures attempt the same thing. It can not prohibit them; but if the violation of that principle is iniquitous in the nation, it is equally iniquitous in the component parts of the nation, the individual States.
There was much discussion and much diversity of opinion among the national representatives who drew up the federal Constitution; and if we are to judge the state of the public mind upon the question of freedom of conscience by the diversity of sentiments expressed in the State constitutions adopted about that time, it is nothing less than a marvel that the national Constitution should speak so clearly, truly, and unequivocally upon that matter.
It is in the constitution of South Carolina, adopted in the year 1778, that we find the greatest divergence from the federal Constitution upon the principles of religious liberty. The constitution adopted by that State in 1776, unlike the others adopted that year, said nothing upon the matter of religion; but the one adopted two years later more than made up for that lack. It did for that State what the federal Constitution prohibited the nation from doing—it established the “Christian Protestant religion” as the religion of that State. Article XXXVIII of the constitution of 1778 reads, in part:—
That all persons and religious societies who acknowledge that there is one God, and a future of rewards and punishments, and that God is publicly to be worshiped, shall be freely tolerated. The Christian Protestant religion shall be deemed, and is hereby constituted and declared to be, the established religion of this State. That all denominations of Christian Protestants in this State, demeaning themselves peaceably and faithfully, shall enjoy equal religious and civil privileges.
The framers of that constitution considered only Christians—and Christians of the Protestant type—as possessing any rights, civil or religious, within the bounds of that State. It is worthy of note also that this constitution says nothing in reference to the equal rights of man. It was consistent in this silence, if religion were to be established by law in that State; for the equality of man and an established church can not exist in the same territory at the same time.
The constitution of 1778 not only established the Christian religion as the religion of South Carolina, but it prescribed a creed which must be signed by every denomination of Christians before those denominations could be considered as legal religions within that State. Following are the five tenets of that creed as they appeared in Article XXXVIII:—
1st. That there is one eternal God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. 2d. That God is publicly to be worshiped. 3d. That the Christian religion is the true religion. 4th. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are of divine inspiration, and are the rule of faith and practise. 5th. That it is lawful and the duty of every man being thereunto called by those that govern, to bear witness to the truth
It is an indication of progress toward the light that in the South Carolina constitution of 1790, Article XXXVIII of the previous constitution is repudiated, and in its place we read:—
Article VIII, Section 1. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever hereafter beallowed within this State to all mankind: Provided, That the liberty of conscience thereby declared shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practises inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.”
The constitution of 1865, Art. IX, Sec. 8, repeats the foregoing declaration. The constitution adopted in 1868 changes the form of expression, but makes it no less emphatic: “No person shall be deprived of the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.”—Art. I, Sec. 9. Section 10 of Article I seems to take direct issue with Article XXXVIII of the constitution of 1778. Whereas the latter establishes the “Protestant Christian religion” as the religion of that State, Section 10, Article I, of the constitution of 1868 says this:—
No form of religion shall be established by law; but it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of worship.
This was a great advance from the position taken in 1778, establishing one form of the Christian religion as the religion of the State, and outlawing all who professed anything else or nothing; and though this constitution makes no declaration in reference to the equality of men, the recognition of that principle is seen in the instrument itself, and it furnishes a striking illustration of how the doctrine of soul freedom was gaining ground among the people.
C. M. S.
(To be concluded)

He Wanted to Help

By W. A. S.

It is a simple little story of a farmer’s wife who longed to do something for missions, and of a stranger who was led to help also.
Our sister prayed the Lord to send her a purchaser for a calf that she owned, in order that she might give the proceeds to missions. One day a stranger called, and offered ten dollars for the calf. The price was quickly accepted, and our sister thanked God that she was able to realize so much for the cause.
A little time passed, and the stranger appeared again. He reported that the animal had died soon after he purchased it, and remarked upon his misfortune, after having paid a good price. Our sister then told him how she had prayed the Lord to send a purchaser so that she might give the price to foreign missions. She told how glad she had been when he himself offered so liberal a price, and expressed her sorrow over his loss.
He put his hand in his pocket, took out ten dollars, gave it to her, and told her to send that also to the cause of missions, along with her own ten. Her interest in the missionary cause touched his heart, though a stranger to our cause and people.
How many such neighbors there are all about, who would gladly help the cause of foreign missions, if they had a chance, we do not know. But the plan for handling the special Mission number of the REVIEW during Thanksgiving week is to afford a chance to let these neighbors have an opportunity to share in the blessedness of helping on the cause of foreign missions. W. A. S.

An Opportunity to Render This Cause Great Service

By A. G. DANIELLS

At no time since our work begun has the outlook been more encouraging for the speedy completion of the message than at the present time. In the foreign fields, especially, the Lord has gone out before us, and great progress is everywhere indicated by the reports which come from our faithful missionaries stationed in all these lands. Every mail brings most urgent calls for more workers, not only better to develop the work in the stations already opened, but to push out into new territory. While this “Macedonian cry” brings joy and courage to our hearts, it brings also great perplexity to know how to respond to these urgent calls for help. And the strain upon our finances is very great. In fact, we are working continually with a treasury practically empty; not because nothing is coming in, but because so much is required to carry forward the work. And when we have gone to our utmost limit, it seems that we have made but a feeble response to the calls which come to us.
What shall be done? We can not be true to the message and work committed to our hands, and turn a deaf ear to the cry which is coming from the millions who as yet have not heard the good news of a Saviour who loves them and is soon to return. Our watchword constantly must be “Onward!” From the one hundred thousand loyal believers in all the world we seem to hear the command, “Go forward.” Till our Captain says, “It is finished,” we must conduct an aggressive campaign, which reaches out into the most dark and destitute parts of the habitable earth. Never, till the warfare on earth is ended, can we consistently slacken our efforts, or enter upon a policy of retrenchment. Our expenditures in foreign missions must be increased year by year. The appropriations for the present year are much larger than those for last year. We are glad of this; for if it required no more funds to finance this work this year than it did last, it would indicate delay in our work.
We have now come to the place where to carry forward the work already in operation in mission fields, it requires approximately one thousand dollars a day. That is, every time the sun rises, from some source a thousand dollars must be provided to meet expenses.
It is evident that some plan must be devised and set in operation by which this large sum of money will be provided. While the gifts of our people are liberal, they are not adequate to meet fully the demands of this growing cause.
“Thanksgiving week,” November 22-28, affords an opportunity not simply to bring relief to our financial strain, but to make provision for a great forward movement into “the regions beyond.” The possibilities which this plan affords to secure financial help, and quickly secure a large sum to help spread this message, are almost without limit. All the gold and silver belong to God; and why should we not go to those who have it, yet know nothing concerning this blessed truth, and, having placed before them a copy of the REVIEW AND HERALD, prepared with the view of telling them what we are doing to give the gospel to all the world, ask them for a donation? Soon they will cast their silver and gold to the moles and the bats. Why not extend to them an invitation, not only to embrace the message, but to give to its advancement some of the Lord’s money with which he has entrusted them?
The success of this excellent plan rests in the faithfulness of our people. An excellent number of the REVIEW AND HERALD may be prepared, and the most perfect organization possible be put into operation in all the union and local conferences; but if our people in the local churches fail to respond, and put into practical operation the plans suggested, the effort will to a great extent be a failure. The success or failure of the plan rests with us as individuals. If fifty thousand of our people would secure an average of five dollars for each, it would bring in for the advancement of our work the handsome sum of a quarter of a million dollars. An effort, I am sure, proportionate to the greatness of the work and the shortness of time would bring in even a greater sum than this.
I must earnestly appeal to our people everywhere to take hold of this plan. Let the officers in the local churches do their duty, and organize the work. Find out how many papers you can use, and order them at once. If every church makes a determined and persistent effort, the plan will prove a great success. By doing this we shall not only help our work financially, but save the souls of some of our neighbors as well.
The curse came on Meroz because “they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” Let none of us merit the displeasure of the Lord by a failure to help the needy cause of God at this time.
A. G. DANIELLS.

The Opium Danger at Home

THE curse of opium is not restricted to China. That country has entered upon as energetic a war of extermination against opium as New England has against the gipsy-moth; but the United States is coming to face the same problem that has confronted China for so many years. There is no question but what opium dissipation in the United States was of Chinese origin; but the Chinese population in this country has not greatly increased since 1878, and yet the importation of that drug has increased in that time more than two hundred fifty per cent. In 1907 there were imported into the United States one hundred fifty-seven thousand pounds of opium, according to the report of the American commissioners appointed to investigate the growth of the opium habit; and this increase in opium importations has continued in spite of the fact that the Chinese are striving to give up the habit, and and the young Chinese are being systematically taught its dangerous and destructive character. The fact of the matter is that a great many white persons are taking up the use of the drug. There are said to be no less than three thousand white smokers in New York City alone. San Francisco also has its great corps of white opium-smokers, and other large cities furnish their quota. The press report of this matter closes with these words:—
What surprises Dr. Wright most is that it is not among the slums, but in the professional classes, where the highly keyed nervous systems seem to crave narcotics, that the habit is most in evidence. Many reports indicate that the “strenuous life” is, in a measure, responsible for recourse to the drug.
The “strenuous life” has come to be a characteristic of our times. It is but another way of designating the conditions foretold in James 5: 1-6. The craving for riches induces the strenuousness, and the strenuousness the desire for the effect which the drug produces.

Wine and Babies

It has been the studied attempt of the liquor interests in this country for many years to instil into the children of the land, even in their infancy, an appetite for strong drink. This has been undertaken in a number of different ways, only a few of which, it is safe to say, have ever been brought to the attention of the public. For instance, candies have been flavored with liquor; sidewalks have been sprinkled with the dregs from beer glasses and kegs, that the odor of this beverage might assail the nostrils of those passing; play-rooms have been fitted up in which children have been given drinks flavored with alcoholic beverages; the leaders in the liquor interests have advised saloon-keepers to give young boys free drinks, thus creating in them an appetite for liquor, and so obtaining recruits to take the places of the older drinkers when they passed away; and now comes the latest from California,—a proposition of the liquor men to educate the people to the use of wine at meal-time, under the specious plea that children educated to the use of this beverage will not become inebriates. The full purpose of that campaign of education is laid bare in the words which are given below. They declare it their purpose—
to assist in the campaign of education which has been inaugurated by the association to counteract the influence of the prohibition movement, and educate the American people to the proper use of wine at table, thereby wiping out the evils of drunkenness.
They propose to teach American mothers to give their children a little wine and water with their meals as soon as they are old enough to sit at the table, “just the same as the mothers living in the wine-producing countries of the world have done for generations past, and where children, becoming accustomed to the use of these non-intoxicating beverages at the table, will have no desire for stronger beverages between meals, and thus become proof against intemperance.”
But those who know anything of the conditions prevalent in wine-producing countries, such as France, Spain, and Italy, know that the use of wine is no preventive of intemperance. In fact, the most conservative figures show that in France, which produces more wine than any other country in the world, three times as much alcohol is used per capita as in the United States, and that nation is cursed by one of the most terrible beverages that has ever been invented—that is, absinthe, which even Frenchmen themselves have designated as the “green dragon.” We can imagine no more detestable undertaking than that proposed by the liquor interests of California; namely, to instil into infants an appetite for strong drink; but the fact that such a proposition could be entertained by a body of men is in itself conclusive proof of the demoralizing influences of the liquor business.

Note and Comment

Christian or Pagan?

A METHODIST clergyman recently wrote a letter to a New England paper (The Day, New London, Conn.), in which he discussed the question of Sunday observance, and among other things said:—
The Christian civilization differs from the pagan and all others in its legislation. The civil law separates the Sabbath as a day of rest and worship.
One essential difference between Christian and pagan civilization is the separation between church and state, a principle clearly enunciated by Christ. When an appeal is made to civil authority for the enforcement of a religious observance, the Christian idea of civil government is set aside, and the pagan principle is adopted. The observance of the true Christian Sabbath of the fourth commandment is based upon the divine law, and does not ask the support of the civil law.

Lifting the Embargo

JESUS said to his disciples: “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24: 14. That could not be done, and the Bible be a forbidden book in any part of the world. A mighty power set itself against the distribution of that book in every country where it could bring any kind of influence to bear, and did make the Bible a closed book for millions upon millions of the people. An illustration of the success of that power, and of its vindictiveness against the Bible, is given in the following extract from the Missionary Review of the World:—
Nov. 10, 1852, a man named Perandelli, mate of an Italian ship, obtained a Bible in New York, which was discovered by the custom-house officers upon the return of the vessel to Naples. The possession of that Italian Bible was treated as a criminal offense. An inquiry was at once instituted, and Perandelli bravely came forward, in order to free his comrades from suspicion, acknowledging the book as his property. The poor fellow was tried by court-martial, and sentenced to ten years’ hard labor in the galleys for the crime of bringing a Bible into the country. At present such punishment of a Bible reader is possible, thank God, in one or two Mohammedan countries only!
The Word, in spite of the embargo of the Roman Church, is making its way into all the world “for a testimony unto all the nations.” Neither Catholicism nor Mohammedanism can prevent the consummation of this purpose of the Almighty. In fact, Rome herself has been compelled to pose in this country of late as the advocate of Bible reading among the people; and into other countries long dominated by that power, the Bible is going in spite of the warnings and protests of her priests. It is nothing less than the power of God that is accomplishing this bursting of the bands of restriction, and is an unmistakable evidence of the fact that God has set his hand to the work, to cut it short in righteousness.
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