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New Hope for the Coming Year
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SOME departments of the paper have necessarily suffered by taking our "assistant" to work in the College in Healdsburg. We are pleased to be able to say that the coming of others from the East will enable us to do better by these parts of our work than we had even hoped to do, until he was released elsewhere. We engage in our work for the coming year with new hope and courage.
Useless Controversy.
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SOME time since we copied an article from an Eastern paper on the subject of the two houses of Israel. The article was in nowise controversial—it referred to no individual. We then received a letter from a minister in an Eastern State, saying that he had been requested to reply to it, and forwarding a long article in reply. No one had any authority to request a reply to an article in this paper, unless he furnished his own means of publishing it. We thought at first, however, that we would waive our objection to the unwarranted liberty taken by somebody, and publish the article, first submitting it to the author of the selection to which it referred. And then the author of the aforesaid reply asked for room to reply further to any remark which the first writer might make as a rejoinder. This was asking so very much that we have decided to reject the matter altogether. In this we do no injustice to any one, for no one was referred to in the selected article; we invited no reply to it; and we have had no intention, and have none now, of opening our columns to useless controversies.
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Notes on Ingersoll.
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WE do not so highly value books on the "Evidences of Christianity," and replies to infidelity, as some do. The Saviour said that they who would not believe Moses and the prophets would not believe though one rose from the dead. So we think. The truths of the Bible are their own best evidence. One series of sermons on "the law and the prophets" are worth more than a whole library of human reasonings to prove the truthfulness of the Scriptures. If Ingersoll must be answered, the best thing we have yet seen is a pamphlet of 200 pages, entitled "Notes on Ingersoll," by Rev. L. A. Lambert, Catholic, of Buffalo. It is very brief, but pointed, and generally effective.
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