Bro. Smith: I take this opportunity to write a few lines to you in haste. I am on my way West. This morning I am at Dunkirk, and expect to leave to-day for Buffalo. While on my way here I stopped at Olean a few days where the Lord opened the way for me to hold a meeting, and I trust it has had a good effect. I talked to them on the signs of the times, and they seemed to be interested in the subject. After meeting, one man subscribed for the paper; another came and wanted a copy of the Review and of course I let him have it.
I would say to the saints scattered abroad that I am still striving to overcome through the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony. I love to meet with God's dear saints now, and I want to dwell with them in his kingdom. T. E. Thorp.
Dunkirk, N. Y. July 29th, 1857.
Mary Hungerford’s Death
By James White
Fell asleep on the evening of Aug. 4th, Sr. Mary Hungerford, of Bedford, Mich., aged 42 years. Sr. H. had kept the Sabbath of the Lord in the faith of the Third Angel's Message for several years, and enjoyed the confidence of her church, as one devoted to the fear of God. She has left a companion and family, who deeply feel their great loss; yet they sorrow not as others that have no hope, feeling assured that she will have part in the first resurrection. May the Lord grant to them a well-grounded hope to meet her there.
The funeral was attended on Fifth-day, Aug. 6th, at the meeting-house in the neighborhood of their residence. J. H. W.
Sodom, Gomorrah, and the United States.
Alas! what are we hastening to. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their wickedness. Let us tremble when we think on the wickedness of our own land, and pray that God, in his infinite mercy, may pity us.
—Christian Sun, Va.
OBITUARY.
LINES COMPOSED ON THE ABOVE
By J. B. Frisbie
Fell asleep in Jesus July 25th, A. P. H. Kelsey of Le Roy, Mich., aged 39 years. He died of erysipelas, after an illness of about four weeks. He died trusting in the Lord. Brother Kelsey and companion embraced the Sabbath under the labors of brother Bates about five years ago. He has left a wife and four children to mourn his loss. but we hope for only a short time.
The funeral was attended by a large audience at the Congregational Meeting House in that vicinity.
J. B. FRISBIE.
LINES COMPOSED ON THE ABOVE.
Sleep on dear brother, sweetly rest,
No more earth's cares invade thy breast;
Hushed is each sigh, each tear is shed,
Thou now art numbered with the dead.
Thy children and companion now
Beneath their loss in sorrow bow,
Yet while they mourn they still retain,
The hope of meeting thee again.
Not long will be thy silent sleep;
Not long dear friends thy absence weep;
Ere long a voice will rend the skies,
And bid thy sleeping dust arise.
Then shall loved ones, thee meet again,
In brighter climes for e'er to reign;
United then thy song shall be,
"O grave where is thy victory."
D. J. FRISBIE.
The Church’s Stand Against Sin
"LET the church of God take high ground in reference to all sin, and having plainly defined her positions, let her maintain her ground, and condemn all that God condemns. She should speak plainly and unequivocally. She should go just as far as the Bible will justify, and no farther. Rules based upon the Scriptures should be adopted and enforced, that would exclude every class of sinners from her pale." Again:—
"Let all the ministers of the Gospel take a firm stand for God and his Church. Let us preach the whole law, and the whole Gospel. Let us teach what the will of the Lord is, in reference to every sin. If we have given even a pretext for 'the stones to cry out,' let us repent, and henceforth do our whole duty to God and man."
The Church Drawing Nearer the World
"Is it not because, while the world has apparently come nearer to the church, the church has really drawn nearer to the world? It seems as if a mutual approximation had taken place, and a mutual sacrifice had been made; but in truth the sacrifice has been chiefly on one side, and that on the wrong side. Things which are, perhaps, not unlawful in themselves, have become a snare to the great mass of professors of religion. The world has smiled upon them, and they have too often been fascinated by its smile."
The Doom of Our World.
By North British Review
What this change is to be we dare not even conjecture; but we see in the heavens themselves some traces of destructive elements, and some indications of their power. The fragments of broken planets—the descent of meteoric stones upon our globe—the wheeling comets welding their loose materials at the solar furnace—the volcanic eruptions of our own satellite—the appearance of new stars, and the disappearance of others—are all foreshadows of that impending convulsion to which the system of the world is doomed. Thus placed on a planet which is to be burnt up, and under heavens which are to pass away; thus treading, as it were, on the cemeteries, and dwelling in the mausoleums of former worlds—let us learn the lesson of humility and wisdom, if we have not already been taught it in the school of revelation.—North British Review.
The Old and New Covenants.
A CORRESPONDENT asks for information concerning the covenants mentioned in Hebrews viii and ix, remarking that if the old covenant is the ten commandments he sees not how they can now be binding. "I thought," he continues, "that the covenant that God made with the fathers was the law at Sinai."
The first definition of a covenant is the mutual agreement of two parties, to do or forbear some act or thing. Second, the writing containing the terms of agreement or contract. Now what covenant did God make with Israel or what agreement did they enter into, when he took them by the hand to lead them out of the Land of Egypt? It is found in Ex. xix, where God declares, "Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people" &c. "And the people answered together and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do." Here the agreement was made. The people agreed to do all that the Lord had said; and he had said, "If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant." He then proceeds to declare the condition of the covenant, the ten commandments. These the people had agreed to keep, and God had agreed if they would, they should be a peculiar treasure unto him &c. We see then how that the claim that many have instituted on Deut. v, 2, 3, that the ten commandments were given to the Israelites alone, falls to the ground. For reference is here made to the particular agreement entered into by the children of Israel.
But "if the first covenant had been faultless," &c. In what respect was it faulty? They transgressed it, they continued not in it; and it offered no pardon for sin. "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the days come with the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah." Under this covenant, the law is put into the mind, and written in the heart. This covenant offers pardon for sin. "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." The first covenant had a worldly Sanctuary, and ordinances. These have given place under the new, to the antitypical work in heaven. This covenant carries us forward to the redeemed state; for we read, "And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me from the least to the greatest." When will this be? When their sins and iniquities are remembered no more. And when will the sins and iniquities of the righteous cease from remembrance? When the Sanctuary is cleansed, and the sins of the overcomers are borne away forever. Thanks be to God for the new covenant with its better promises.
A CHURCH ACTING TO THE EXTENT OF HER POWER
The following is a resolution, of the St. Lawrence (N. Y.) Baptist Association, passed in its session of Nov. 12 and 13, 1856. It has taken upon itself, as will be seen, to declare what opinions are heretical, and then to act against the holders of such opinions, as far as they yet have power to proceed, namely, to exclude them from their communion. Go one step further, and let the church have power, not only to denounce heretics, but to correct them, as was granted to the Papacy, and how long before we should have in this country a Protestant hierarchy following in her very steps—an image to the beast. But to the resolution. There is no mistaking its spirit.
"Resolved—That in our estimation, the Baptists, as a denomination, do not believe in the annihilation of the wicked, but that all men are immortal, and will live forever in happiness or misery, according to their improvement or misimprovement, of this state of probation; and therefore that those who believe and propagate the above named error, and its usual concomitants—the nonexistence of Satan, the bestowment of immortality in regeneration, the unconsciousness of all the dead from death to the resurrection, &c., should be excluded from the fellowship of our church as heretics."
"A Caustic Nobleman."
CORRECTION. A paragraph has been circulated in the religious and secular press, both in Great Britain and this country, respecting an impudent letter, purporting to be written by the Earl of Orford to the Bible Society. Lord Orford has publicly denied having written the letter. Some person, who probably designed to ridicule the practice of inviting distinguished persons to preside at public meetings, without reference to their moral character, unwarrantably used Lord Orford's name, and thus committed an immoral act himself. The practice, too prevalent, of publishing fictitious letters, for political and other purposes, deserves to be severely censured. Editors as well as their readers, are often imposed upon by such displays of wit or enmity.—Am. Missionary.
Visit to Green Spring, Ohio.
By Merritt E. Cornell
By request of many friends at Green Spring, we have just visited them and find the cause still onward there. We held one evening meeting, and the next morning the brethren arranged seats in the Grove, where the people listened to a lengthy discourse, showing from both Old and New Testaments that the burden of the last message, to call out a remnant, is the Commandments of God and Faith of Jesus.
At the close of the meeting three more were baptized, making in all twenty-seven baptized since our first Tent-meeting there. All seem to be holding on to the truth. The Lord met with us in the Grove, and at the water side, and made us glad, praise his name! This visit was very interesting to us and we trust profitable to the church there.
M. E. CORNELL.
Finley, Ohio, Aug., 6th, 1857
P. S. This is the third week of our Tent-meeting in this place, and still the interest is rising. About thirty dollars worth of books have been taken, and several have subscribed for the Review, and several families have decided to keep the Sabbath. Many more are investigating. On the whole, we are much encouraged.
M. E. C.
APPOINTMENT.
By J. H. Waggoner; Joseph Bates
Providence permitting, meetings will commence in the Michigan Tent in the village of Burr Oak, St. Joseph Co., on Friday evening, Aug. 14, 1857, and continue probably two weeks, or as long as may be thought proper.
J. H. WAGGONER.
JOSEPH BATES.
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