Review and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 10. (1/14/1858)

Review and Herald

Jan 14, 1858

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 14, 1858

"SABBATH CONVENTIONS."

By Roswell F. Cottrell

A MOVEMENT is now being put forward by the "rulers of the darkness of this world" in the State of New York, which is well calculated to pave the way to the great decree by which the Two-horned Beast will persecute all who have not "the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Sabbath County Conventions, so-called, are being held in order "to circulate a petition, to have the locks on the canals closed on the Sabbath, and to awaken a deeper interest in favor of the Sabbath." The Convention for Erie County was held at Buffalo, Dec. 8, which I attended. The following Resolutions were discussed and adopted:

"Resolved, 1. That as the Sabbath is Divine in its origin and appointment, and designed for the glory of God and good of man, therefore we will use all proper efforts to promote its universal observance.

"Resolved, 2. That as the Sabbath is Divine in its origin, and necessary for the existence and spread of true Religion, therefore, we will use all proper means for its recovery from desecration.

"Resolved, 3. That as knowledge on this subject is indispensable, therefore, we will endeavor, by preaching, and by the circulation of Books or Tracts, to disseminate the needful information.

"Resolved, 4. That as the Scriptural observance of the Sabbath, or the Lord's Day, will not only promote the Religious, but the Physical and Mental welfare of man, therefore, those who violate the claims of the Sabbath, fail not only of its religious, but also of its physical and mental benefits.

"Resolved, 5. That as a proper observance of the Sabbath is intimately connected with the prosperity and perpetuity of our free institutions, therefore, our public interests require that the Public Works should be suspended on the Sabbath.

"Resolved, 6. That as the Sabbath was made for man, therefore, "we will petition the proper authorities that those employed on our canals may be relieved from all labor on that day, and have an opportunity of enjoying its sacred rest, and securing its benefits."

In speaking to these resolutions, much truth was asserted, and sound arguments used in defense of the Sabbath of the Lord, as a universal and perpetual institution, but the change, from the seventh to the first day of the week, was taken for granted, and passed over without argument. Had some poor heathen been present, he would doubtless have thought that what was called the "Christian Sabbath," was the very day on which God rested at the creation.

Something was said about the moral nature of the commandment consisting in keeping "a seventh part of time," but one unacquainted with the deceptive maneuvering by which the Sabbath of the Lord is set aside and a "tradition of the elders" is engrafted upon the fourth commandment, by modern "Doctors of Divinity," would have been completely taken by their sleight of hand and "cunning craftiness," and really thought that "Sunday" was the seventh day of the creation week—the very day which the fourth commandment requires us to observe. But I noted one expression of the first speaker, the meaning of which I could only guess at; perhaps some reader can interpret it. Said he, "We behold the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven upon the Christian Sabbath!"

I saw no opportunity to speak in the convention, as the speakers were all appointed beforehand, and the evening was all occupied by them; but as soon as the meeting was adjourned, I gave notice to the audience that, in pursuance of the third resolution, I would, as the people passed out of the house, distribute gratuitously a quantity of Sabbath tracts, well calculated to impart the "needful information" on the subject, the first of the series being entitled, "The First day of the week not the Sabbath of the Lord." Accordingly, I handed them out to as many as applied for them. May God grant that they may awaken inquiry in some minds that will not be satisfied till they are led to the light of the truth.

A few words about the leaders in this movement who prefix Rev. to their own names, a title applied in Scripture exclusively to God. The Lord says, Holy and reverend is my name. I have called these men, The rulers of the darkness of this world, because the world is in darkness on the subject of the Sabbath, as well as some other subjects of vital interest, and these rulers, professing to teach the way of God in truth, are still willing to keep the people in darkness.

Blind leaders of the blind! deceiving and being deceived. How little do they know what they are doing. How little do they know that they are paving the way to the last great persecution of the saints of God. They are working out the fulfillment of prophecy, and, I presume, they do not know it. Yet they exhibit much sagacity in their proceedings. They seem to be aware that a religious institution that has no Bible evidence to sustain it, needs the aid of civil law. They seem to understand, too, that a thin entering wedge is preferable to a thick one; for if the entering wedge is too steep it will not stick. The sixth resolution, as drawn up at the preliminary meeting at Buffalo, spoke of Railroads and Post Offices, as well as Canals, but this was too thick a wedge to begin with, and, on motion, it was thinned down to the Canal business alone. When that is driven, of course a thicker one will easily follow.

But we do not wrestle with flesh and blood. We have no enmity against these men. We only pity them, while we rejoice to see the word of God fulfilling. The persecution of the beast with two horns must come before the saints are delivered; and as we long for deliverance, we hail with joy every token which speaks it near. O Lord! prepare thy people to stand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion.

Report of Meetings.

By Joseph Bates

BRO. SMITH: We commenced a series of meetings in a school-house on Grand Prairie, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., on the 26th, Dec. The general attention to our subjects was good, with one exception. This was a Mr. Strong, who, as I learned, had been a Congregational preacher in the State of New York, of the school of Perfectionists. He seemed to think it was his prerogative to raise objections, and ask questions, and reply frequently during our discourses.

The subject of the Sanctuary was presented the last evening. To show the absurd views with which his mind was filled, we will here state four of them, with which he endeavored with manifest zeal to impress the minds of the audience at the close of the meeting.

1. In reply to my quotation from Isa. lxvi, 22, 23, he said that did not mean to worship God on the Sabbath-days, but all the days between, from one Sabbath to another. Thus he would have it that all flesh would come to worship before God all the days but the Sabbath-days; for, said he, the Scriptures do not teach that there shall be any assembling on the Sabbath-day. I read Lev. xxiii, 3, respecting the holy convocation on the Sabbath. He still declared that there was none, and

2. To strengthen his argument he said Paul had three Sabbaths, and commenced with Heb. iv, 4, 7-9, that Sabbath means rest, &c. I endeavored in a few words to show that the 4th verse referred merely to God's Rest-day on the first seventh day from creation, and the 7th verse was in reference to the offer of salvation every day; viz., "To-day if ye will hear his voice." See chap. iii, 7, 13, 15, and the 9th verse referred to a rest for God's people yet future, which included all days; hence the two last mentioned days did not refer to the rest on the seventh day of the week.

3. Said he, The praying time is past, and now is the believing time. We called on him for chapter and verse, but to no effect. It was so, and that was

enough. He seemed to have lost all idea with respect to the universal prayer-meeting yet future; Rom. xiv, 11; Rev. vi, 15-17.

4. He also objected to Christ's entering the Holy Place in heaven with his own blood, [Heb. ix, 12,] and insisted that Christ's blood was not spilt on the earth until we read John xix, 34. Then he said that that was human blood that was shed on Calvary, but his divine blood was spilt in heaven before the Tabernacle by himself. We asked for chapter and verse. There was no need of any; these things were evident. There was no other way by which his blood could be found in heaven. I proposed again that we dismiss. Said he, You have closed your meeting; this is my time. As we were passing out a few moments afterwards, one of the hearers said to him, I never knew your position before. You have now shown what you believe. I was informed that it was his universal practice to disturb any religious meeting, but he never would state his own views before.

We also held a meeting in Ostemo, and on the evening of Dec. 31st, we took the cars for Michigan City, and thence to La Porte, Ind. Here we find a little company of Sabbath-keepers. Our meetings commenced on the 2d of January. We have a very convenient hall for our public meetings in the business part of the town. Those that come have been very attentive.

Last evening at the close, we gave liberty. One gentleman very much excited arose and asked if we believed in the immutability of God. We answered, Yes. Then said he, You have destroyed it; for you have been trying to prove that he changed the administration of his government in heaven at the end of the 2300 days of Dan. in 1844; therefore you have proved that God changed. I endeavored to show him that it was the fulfillment of a prophecy which was made clear from the several testimonies which I had quoted. But he persisted in his statement. I replied that God no more changed his immutability in passing from the Holy to the Most Holy Place in the heavenly Sanctuary, than he (the man) had changed his nature by passing from the street into this hall to attend our meeting. He then began to qualify, &c., and finally did not know but he should come again, and hear further. We are hoping our series of meetings will result favorably for the cause.

Yours in the blessed hope. JOSEPH BATES.

La Porte, Ind., Jan. 5th, 1858.

BE NOT CAST DOWN.

By Editor

TEMPTED, tried, desponding one, Why does darkness shade thy brow? Is there no all-beaming sun In the heavens above thee now?

Is the cloud of radiant light, Glowing round the Eternal throne, Shrouded in a pall of night, Or in outer darkness gone?

Is the fount of glory dried? Are the gates of mercy closed? Went there ever unsupplied, Any who in God reposed?

Has his arm grown short to save? Heavy is his ear to hear? Bids he any be a slave To despair or doubt or fear?

Then may we refuse to move, When his word and mighty arm, Weak and impotent shall prove, To deliver us from harm.

Then may we despondent be, And in him refuse to trust, When his throne and majesty Both shall crumble to the dust.

Has not help on One been laid Strong to save and set us free? And is there no promise made, In his name, of victory?

Then in Jesus let us trust; On him stay our troubled mind: Not presume; for God is just; Nor despair; for he is kind.—ED.

SELECTIONS.

By L. Foster

OUR EXPOSURE TO JUDGMENTS.

[The following article we take from The Oberlin Evangelist. Although the writer calls the church the bride, whereas the marriage relation is only used to express the union that should exist between Christ and his people who will be guests at the marriage supper of the Lamb, the scathing rebuke which it utters against the nominal churches of the land is worthy of consideration. If we have been called harsh and uncharitable in simply applying to the multiform churches of the land, the term which properly signifies the state they are in, and calling them Babylon, mixture, confusion, what would have been said of us, if we had charged them directly with being "married to the Devil."—Ed.]

BRO. COWLES:—There is nothing more alarming, as indicating that God's signal judgments in moving forward his kingdom, are to center in this land, than the present state of the American church, taken as a body. We noticed in our last that our national sins, with all our light, must be highly provoking to God, and just adverted to the fact that the Church's consenting with, and sustaining, them, was the worst part of that provocation.

But there is something in the church which faithfulness requires us to point to, still back of that connivance with these great sins; which is even more conspicuous than that, if possible, and the real cause of it. It is her virtual repudiation of that relationship which binds her to her great Living Head. It is the practical denial of her sacred espousals and vows to her Lord, to be entirely his. These covenant vows, most solemnly made before God and

man over the blood of her Lord, and sealed with it, have come to be treated as a mere nullity—so much blank paper! This is with the church, the fatal starting point, the head and front of her offending.

Now the covenant of the church which we, as professed Christians, make with our God and Redeemer, is one of entire and unreserved consecration to him, to be his alone, and He on his part, condescends to pledge himself ours. This is the relation in brief. God expresses it thus—I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And he says to the Church, "I am married unto you—ye shall be for me, and not for another." So Christ speaks of Christians and the Church as his in the most intimate relation—"I in you, and ye in me;" and the Apostle says to such—"Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price." Christ, as the Lamb of God, has given his own blood as the purchase-dowry for the church, and she has become the "bride, the Lamb's wife," wholly his.

Indeed, this covenant relation and consecration of the Christian is necessarily effected or set up in every true conversion to Christ. There is then an entire, unconditional giving up of the whole man to him. If there is any reserve made to self, there is then no conversion, Christ does not, cannot, allow any reserve. The whole man, just as he is, persisting in guilt, and want, is given over to Christ, to be his forever; and right at that point, and that only, he is received; and, as the apostle describes it, "The love of God is shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost." That is conversion. There is then and there formed a heart-covenant—a union of hearts. The great heart of Jehovah, (strange it can be so, but so it is,) and the heart of the penitent sinner are united—welded together in the strongest relationship that mortals can know! The reality and strength of any relationship is estimated by the love on which it is founded. That son is no son who has no filial love. That husband is no husband that does not love his wife. But in this relation we have the love of the believer united in Christ with the love of God—nay, swallowed up therein, so that he is justly said to be dead to all other lords, and his life hid with Christ in God. The tie which binds him to his God and Saviour and makes him his has in it the strength of Almighty love! And similar ties from every converted heart in the church, all centering in God, constitute the relationship of the church to her Lord. O how truly and necessarily does the church become the bride, the Lamb's wife, entirely and forever his, in a stronger bond of union than that of all created loves combined!

Then more. The expressed and open covenant of the church with her Lord, or of all her members together in it, is an acknowledgement of this same consecration to him. It is a "fac-simile" of this heart-covenant. The language of their united vows is, "We do this day avouch the Lord Jehovah—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost to be our God, and we do here most solemnly covenant, before God and man, to be, in all we have and are, entirely and forever his; and do promise, by his grace assisting us, to live only for his service, and glory.

Here we have this heart-relation, and consecration to God, of Christians and the church, brought out and publicly solemnized; and O how intimate; how full; how binding does the union become! It is a real and most sacred espousal of the church to her Lord. It makes him her wedded Head—her supreme delight, her Beloved, the controlling object of all her desires and aims. It leaves her no interests but his—no will for work but his—no honor or approval to seek but his, and no other Lord but Himself. She is in all her members to live for him—a bride in Him, have her home, her converse and fellowship with Him, and in all things be purely his, without spot, and blameless. This is the true and necessary purport of her sacred relation.

And now the inquiry is, How has this relation or covenant consecration of the church to her Lord, been sustained by her? Look at it in some particulars.

1. She has denounced it as a rank heresy! Although she has taken upon her Lord's name; has stood with him at the Altar of consecration, and most solemnly before heaven and earth, has covenanted to be wholly his; and by his grace and spirit assisting her, to live only for him, yet she has turned away and declared it an impossibility—the proposition of falsehood—a pledge to be broken! Nor has her Lord at all denied her the needed aid and means for it, or released her from it. His requirements accord with her vows—"Walk after the Spirit;" "Abide in me;" "Be ye holy, for I am holy." And for doing it, he has pledged her in every need, a supply of the Spirit and his own blessed fullness, kindly saying to her, "Lo, I am with you always;" "Fear not, only believe;" "My grace shall be sufficient for thee." And yet from this freely offered grace of her Lord, from his proposed in-dwelling presence, from his sin-cleansing blood, and from the proffered embraces of his perfect love, the church, his bride, has turned coldly, unbelievingly, obstinately away, and despised the holy covenant! "She has belied the Lord and said, It is not he"—nor her Lord. This is the position of the church now, in this land, with all her increased light. O, how is Christ wounded in the house of his friends! "Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord."

2. Again, This rejection in the church of her rightful Lord, has of course opened the way for other attachments. These she has eagerly sought, and has given herself basely to other lovers. So mammon, clad in golden glitter, has been welcomed to her heart in the place of her Lord. Her members could afford to forsake Christ to get riches! Often when the pomp and style and pride of life have courted her away, she has yielded to their embraces. She has oft been captivated with the goddess of pleasure, and joined the throng of her devotees, and also as the favor of man, worldly honors, and popularity have beckoned her from her Lord, she has gone after them. She has listened to the syren song of ease and self-gratification, and sunk into their arms; or, on the other hand, has plunged into the cares and business, and bustle of earth, scrambling for its trifles regardless of her Lord. Alas what object, nay what bauble of earth has not been made a rival to her Lord, even in the church herself! "Upon every high hill she has wandered, playing the harlot." "Scattered her ways under every green tree." There has she made her bed and her home, instead of dwelling with her covenant Lord! This the American church has done far more flagrantly than did Israel of old, and yet God threatened to "pour upon them his fury and his jealousy for it," and did do it.

3. But further; how has this affected Christ's interests on earth? He has a great work to be done here, very dear to his heart, in promoting that kingdom for which he died. Indeed, all the work he has on earth, is about it; and the church is appointed instrumentally to do it. Now how has this virtual divorcement of herself from Him, affected it? The answer is plain. It has caused his work to become to her a weariness and a drudgery—a forgotten out-of-the-way matter; has left Christians and the church with a multitude of separate, counter interests of their own to look after. For these they have lived, and planned, and cared, and acted, not for Christ, as the early Christians did. They have come to feel that his work and interests were one thing, and theirs quite another—that, what was done for Him, was so much minus to them. And so the church, instead of devoting all to Christ and his pleasure as truly the bride, the Lamb's wife, has been ready to filch all from him for her base parsimons! All she has he has bestowed upon her, and besides, has redeemed her with his own blood; and yet when he has wanted her wealth to carry on his work, he has had to beg it—aye, beg it earnestly at the door of his own bride! And if she has condescended to give him a small pittance, she has not done it as being his, but has called it a charity. O how must heaven hate that word, "charity" as it has been used in the church!

So when Christ's interests have called for attention and labor here and there over the earth, and he has commanded Christians and the church very expressly saying, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature," that is, Go all

of you, just where my interests require you, and work for me—the general reply has been—Lord, my plans, my cares, my ease, interests and attachments will not permit. These, not Christ, have decided the matter.

And when he has said, “If ye love me keep my commandments,” “Take up the cross and follow me,” cling to me against reigning sins, against sufferings and reproaches, against principalities and powers, the fear and favor of man, and all the besetments of the world—the reply has been, Lord, it is not convenient. My name and character, my position, prospects, and living, will suffer by it; and so Christ’s honor, authority, and claims, have been disregarded, trampled under foot. Even in the lesser daily duties of the Christian in the closet, the family, the social prayer-meeting and the house of God, this same heaven-abhorred rule of “convenience,” has crept in, and Christ the Lord, in these loving calls is made to wait for almost everything else—perhaps not get attention at all. “Woe worth the day!” It does really seem that instead of studying to do Christ’s work, like the early saints, grasping eagerly after it as the only possible gain of the Christian here—our great study and effort has been to get excused from it—leave it undone! “The bride, the Lamb’s wife,” has been too much taken up with other guests to give much attention to her Lord.

4. And again, Where does all this necessarily place the church—in what connection, what service, what fellowship? Our Lord himself has decided that question. “He that is not with me, is against me.” But to be against Christ is to be with Satan. It leaves the church, then, in a virtual alliance with Satan—married to the Devil! This language may seem harsh, and I utter it with pain and grief; but the dreadful truth it declares is forced upon us, and it is of no use to conceal it. God sees it, yes the world sees it, and the church herself must see it, and profit by the sight too, before her millennial marriage with the Lamb can come. We cannot indeed, portray that beautiful union of the church with her Lord aright, or strive with success to lead her to it, without first presenting this, her most adulterous and alarming departure from Him.

But my sheet is full. I must continue this article in another number. But here let me say, with the prophet, as I close—“For Zion’s sake I will not rest, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not hold my peace, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.”

Yours for that time. L. FOSTER. Atlanta, Ill., Dec. 8, 1856.

Wesley’s Testimony.

By John Wesley

We may not sell anything which tends to impair health. Such is, eminently, all that LIQUID FIRE commonly called DRAMS or SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. It is true, these may have a place in medicine; they may be of use in some bodily disorders, although there would rarely be any occasion for them, were it not the unskillfulness of the practitioner. Therefore, such as prepare and sell only for this use, may keep their consciences clear. But who are they? Who prepare them only for this end? Do you know ten such distillers in England? Then excuse these. But all who sell them in the common way, to any that will pay, are poisoners-general. They murder his Majesty’s subjects by wholesale, neither does their eye pity or spare. They drive them to hell like sheep. And what is their gain? Is it not the blood of these men? Who, then, would envy their large estates and sumptuous palaces? A curse is in the midst of them. The curse of God cleaves to the stones, the timber, the furniture of them! The curse of God is in their garden, their walks, their groves; a fire that burns to the nethermost hell! BLOOD, BLOOD! IS THERE. The foundation, the floor, the walls, the roof, are stained with blood! And canst thou hope, thou man of blood, though thou art “Clothed in scarlet and fine linen, and farest sumptuously every day,” canst thou hope to deliver down thy fields of blood to the third generation? Not so; for there is a God in heaven, therefore thy name shall soon be rooted out. Like as those whom thou hast destroyed, body and soul, “Thy memorial shall perish with thee.”—J. Wesley.

An Incident in the Life of a Miner.

By Editor

It was a gloomy afternoon in the middle of the rainy season so peculiar to the climate of California, that myself and two companions came to a halt, after a long and fruitless search after that precious metal which has drawn so many away from their peaceful homes to become wanderers in a far-off country.

Mine was only one of the numerous instances of hard fortune which seems to merge into a fatality, and to make abortive every effort towards acquiring a fortune, or even a competency. My companions were young men, brothers, who had left the States with their heads filled with golden dreams, and after two years of unparalleled hardship, found themselves in a frame of mind bordering upon desperation, utterly destitute of money and the common necessaries of life.

We had entered a small valley in the morning formed by the range of hills near the North Fork of the American River. It took us the whole of the forenoon to descend the precipitous sides of the mountain, and, exhausted by our exertions, we had thrown ourselves under the outspreading branches of a large oak, which stood near the centre of the small level which formed the basin of what appeared, at some distant period, to have been the reservoir of a small lake. I had lighted my pipe, while my friends were engaged in unpacking such scanty provisions as we had remaining. My thoughts had insensibly wandered away to old associations, and I was half-wondering to myself whether I ever would “strike a pile”—the ultimatum which is ever present to a Californian’s imagination—when I was startled by a shout behind me. I turned quickly, and found the brothers dancing and leaping about in the most extravagant manner. I rushed up to them, and there, in glittering profusion, lay the cause of their sudden joy: they had rolled a large stone over to serve as a seat, and in doing so exposed to view a “pocket” filled with masses and lumps of gold in nearly a pure state. I congratulated them on their discovery, when each

claimed it as his own: the lie and the blow passed in quick succession, and before I could utter a word they were in mortal combat, rolling over the sward and shifting their positions with the rapidity of lightning. They were mad: the froth flew from between their closely-shut teeth, and they gave utterance to howls of rage that resembled more the shrieks of demons than of human beings. In an instant one jumped up with a yell of victory, grasping a knife dripping with the blood of his brother: he threw himself flat on the ground, with his face and hands on the treasure. It was with feelings better imagined than described that I witnessed this terrible tragedy: everything had passed so instantaneously that I had no opportunity for interference. As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I proceeded to raise the injured one up. He was stone dead: the knife must have pierced his heart. I was in the act of laying him down, when a cry reached me that will haunt me to my dying hour. I looked up, and—horror of horrors!—saw the other brother half risen from the earth, and in the act of casting from him a huge rattlesnake which had coiled itself around his neck while he had been hugging to his heart his ill-gotten gold. There was a dark, livid spot upon his cheek, which told the tale, while stamped upon his features, ferocity, rage, fright, and utter despair struggled for the mastery. Above all could be heard the clear ringing rattle of the deadly reptile, as, cast from the hand of its victim, it crawled its slow length away into the surrounding chapparel. I entered that valley a young man: I left it prematurely old. I burried both brothers under the old tree which had been the only witness, besides myself, of their early and violent death.

We publish the above for the moral that may be drawn from it, that the love of money is the root of all evil.—Ed.

Increase of Crime.

By Editor

THE principal among our leading contemporaries of the daily press, including the Herald, Tribune, Courier and Inquirer, and Sun, have lately directed their attention to the subject of the increase of crime in our midst. They have at length discovered that the speciality on which the Police Gazette has been engaged for years is worthy of attention. Crime they all agree has increased, is increasing, and should be diminished. In this we entirely agree with them and shall be happy and prompt to co-operate in working out a remedy and reform: whether they adopt suggestions of ours, or we are called on to fall in with their lead, they will find us equally zealous, leading or following.

As to the facts we all agree. The city swarms with desperadoes of every name and kind. Murders occur weekly, burglaries nightly, and the lesser offences hourly. Our streets swarm with pickpockets. They “work” up and down our principal thoroughfares in the open day and use their supple fingers on the street corners, at the crossings, and about the hotel doors, as if they were pursuing a legitimate and recognized calling. Sometimes they are arrested—more frequently not. The new police stand gaping in ignorant innocence of the character of the men they are especially appointed to look after, gloriously in the dark as to their present operations and their bad antecedents. The number of arrests in proportion to the offences may be as two to ten; and of the two, it is more than probable, that one will be released by the magistrate before whom he is brought if he has not already provided for his liberty by composition and sharing of the plunder with the M. P.

There must be a root to a tree of such noxious power and spreading dimensions. What and where is it? It lies in one word—our elective judiciary. We have no reproaches nor special detractions against our present judges. Most of them we know personally; in their individual characters they are upright, honorable men: and as judges we are willing to believe they do not intend to err: but is it human nature for a man in an honorable and influential office to send to prison the very agents who are to be among the principal supports in keeping him in his comfortable place?—National Police Gazette.

LOVE.

By G. W. Amadon

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and give up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am not profited at all.” 1 Cor. xiii, 1–3. [Whiting’s Translation.]

“Love forbeareth long and is kind.”
“Love envieth not.”
“Love boasteth not.”
“Is not puffed up.”
“Acteth not indecently.”
“Seeketh not its own.”
“Is not passionate.”
“Doth not surmise evil.”
“Rejoiceth not in deception, but rejoiceth in the truth.”
“Beareth all things.”
“Believeth all things.”
“Hopeth all things.”
“Endureth all things.”
“Love never faileth.”
“And now remaineth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of them is love. Earnestly follow love.”

“When shall love freely flow Pure as life’s river? When shall sweet friendship glow, Changeless for ever? Where joys celestial thrill, Where bliss each heart shall fill, And fears of parting chill Never! no, never!”

“Let us love not in word, neither in tongue; but in deed, and in truth.” G. W. AMADON.

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