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EDITED ~nd PUBLIS.HED by GYRUS E. BROOKS, Malvern Link, Worcestershire-on behalf of the

NOVEMBER, 1882.
A personal an orthodox after fire. from an an orword friend was conversing one day with and report progress 'in future

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beginning; These

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lake. of fire," and also Rev. xxi. 4, "and shall be no more extinction death. Death -of the sinners having

taining the list of preachers with their addresses.' can be' bought friend, for one penny

thodox . congregation sheol occurs sixty-four

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times rendered ' grave, ' thirty-two times , hell,' and twice' pit.' It has, however, but the meaning~gmve-the~ For inatancerJ dared not destroyer, acob says, which 'I will go Our ever cries' conceals. down unto translators give, give, .give :'. that which hides or

wicked life to feed upon, impossibility. that" but When death" urged spiritually,

ceased, and believer

Devon, sends as

brief but grati-

and sorrow were no more. The orthodox must as to put meaning a plain

hell was an objected literally on his meant like,'

of the work being done in New the oversight of a former editor of " Life only in Christ."

not be understood meaning death

of this paper, Mr. George A, Brown, in connection with the:testimony Our readers will find it in another column. In In~~a our literature is being steadily'

sheol to my son mourning.'

say that

spiritual death,

Jacob believed they and

words he did so by saying that " Eternal friend, life in misery." that "Be "attach

that Joseph was.in hell, and that he himself was going to be with 'him there ing God's visitation Abiram, our translators 'pit:' Thus,' also, therefore gave it its proper meaning-grave. In describ-

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for it will not serve your purpose. Now let us read Rev. xxi, 4, in that: sense result is the same-ior tliere :shaU' Thus the be no more ~!!ternal life:in ynisery:'" prospect of a cleansed universe. Our treasurer subscription olog,Y' to every done some years writes "Could you not get a TheIt was many,"

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part of this issue on behalf of our newly-formed we do not see our also. Still, if any any assistance us with dona-: way clear to advocate friends' fElel'p;ompted to this

moving about that gr.eatcontinent preachingand lecturing. ~ All in good-time, we trust, but mean.' time we are apt to get impatient progress: Still, we live, with our slow for and also grow:

nobody seemed shocked or hurt, or " one penny piece of criticism. amongst Surely the Spirit of Truth is of orthodox

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Life? They are very suitable for distribution, and also cheap. See advt. A Lancashire friend who has recently been blessed with the knowledge of the life, says :" Glad to say I am growingin the knowledge of the truth, and spreading it among many others. I have sent some of your works to various 'Young Men's Mutual Improvement Classes'and I hear of warm discussions. At my own place I have spoken in public on several oeeassions, and also in the Sunday School." A lady correspondent writes :-" We werevery glad to hear of the successful Conference at Salisbury, and of the favourable position in which the Association stands, in spite of some who say we are those who bring in damnable heresies (I!) of which Paul speaks, and that those who deny eternal torment 'have not the doctrine of Christ.' It does seem strange how good men hold so tenaciously to the hideous dogma. I have lately been almost anathematized by one of the' who has been here preaching. I do not belong to them, but merely went to hear them. They learnt by some means my views, find so visited me with their judgments." A Salisbury member writes-" Last week a Wesleyan brother said that If we had had Bradlsugh down here instead of the C. 1. A., we should not have done so much mischief as we have done by the meetings of the conference.' Tbis is a testimony in favour of the truth; but it is sad that Christian men should give uttera.nceto such language. Personally' the truth' is become more precious to me; and by God's help I will followwhithersoever it leads," Thus vested tradition, like' vested 1interests' resents change, even though it be from twilight to day. Have our opponents forgotten that abuse proves nothing. The Saviour was called a "blasphemer," and the Apostle Paul was stoned by the upholders of the religious traditions and customs of that day. Still Christ and Paul were right, and their traducers wrong. May it not be so now, that the disciples of ' Life only in Christ' are right, and orthodox upholders wrong? Time will prove. Another member writes from the same city, saying-" The interest your Conference excited increases rather than diminishes. The Rector of Fisherton has publicly denounced those who tnen advocated 'Conditional Immortality' as 'blasphemers.' I mean to challenge him either to main ain the charge in open discussion, or to retract it as publicly as made. I feel sure the doctrine is spreading, and will before long be accepted by the majority of thoughtful Christians." "Blasphemer" is a hard word,but simply means, in this case, one whose 'doxy' differs from the Rector's. If need be the Association will be quite willing-as well as Our esteemed

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out the light of the truth, the whole truth, from that Standard which professes to be a Bible Standard." Our reasons, briefly stated, for declining to open our pages to correspondenceon this subject are these :-1. It is one on which the Association, whilst reserving individual freedom, has no public testimony to bear except this -" There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." 2. It is one on which a wide diversity of view exists among its members, and on which it is difficult to speak dogmatically - either for a limited or a universal resurrection of the unjust dead-but on which the great bulk of opinion probably favours the evangelicalview. 3. The Bible Standard is not an independent magazine for speculative enquiry on all points of doctrinal difference, but the organ of an Association-whose work it records-and as such confined to the advocacy and discussion of two points only, forming the avowed testimony of that Association. This two-fold testimonywhich may be called the planks of our platform -is Life only in Christ, and the Pre-Millennial Advent. 4. It is not possible for us, in the spirit of a theological Don Quixote, to set lance in rest and run a tilt with every phase of supposed or real doctrinal error, to discuss every form in which truth may appear to man. We agree to act the part of good and true Christian knights in assailing two widespread systems of error which impugn the Divine character, misrepresent most seriously the Divine purpose, and obscure the testimony of the Divine word. In this we do not speculate; we do not differ, but are agreed. In this we have the firm rock of Divine Truth under our feet. To this we dedicate, in our collective capacity, in that union which brings to a focus our otherwise scattered units, our time, means, strength in dogmatic testimony. It is mistaken friendship to seek to divert ou~ energies into side issues. These two great errors are our Association "Carthage," and" Carthage must be destroyed." It will be for the Committee, in its wisdom, if it sees fit, to decideotherwise.

local helpers-to meet Mr. Thwaites in public discussion. Meanwhile we wait the result of local effort. A third member writes-" So it seems to the end of time must good be evil spoken of: but how self-condemnatory are such remarks. I feel we are honoured to be counted worthy to bear reproach for the truth's sake." A London member bears the followingpleasing testimony :-" I wish I could subscribe more largely to what I believe are truths that should commend themselves to every thoughtful Christian reader. Of course there are difficultiesto be overcome, as I know from my own experience. When I first heard them taught I felt I must close my ears to them, lest I should place myself in danger of being carried away with some strange doctrine, and 'thus expose myself to error and sin. I thought it undermined the whole of God's word, and was closely allied to infidelity; and I was only induced to listen a second time influenced by, what I truly believed to be, the unmistakable Christian spirit of our dear friend, Mr. Hammond : and now heartily embracing the doctrine of 'Conditional Immortality,' I see a light and clearness in the Bible that makes it infinitely mor~ sweet and precious than it was before." We regret to say that, ~r. Albert Smith's remarks on the resurrection of responsible persons only, which occurred in the paper read for him at the Conference, has exposed us personally to some sharp criticism. We make a couple of extracts. "I do not know who is to blame for such heresy being ventilated on the platform of the Association, but I, for one, must protest against it. I do think it is not right for its platform to be used in such a way. I do trust that a decided denial to it will be given in the next number of the B.S." The other extract is of an opposite kind, and is taken from a letter received in answer to one of ours declining to open our pages to correspondence on the subject: "So much for what I have privately spoken for you; but your readers must remain in the dark, as it 'forms no part of the testimony of the Association.' But what if it forms a part of the Divine testimony? Thank God I am not trammeled in my advocacy of ' the word' by any Association, and that I have no 'colleagues' to consult besides the prophets and apostles. Let your light shine, is the command to each disciple individually. I don't say you don't obey it, but you now refuse to allow me to obey it in connection with the Bible Standard. But while regretting the fact that you have shut me out here, I suppose I must seek to let the light given me shine elsewhere. Of course I don't hold you responsible for my light: but I do feel responsible for it myself. At the same time I warn you, with brotherly love, against shutting

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Scotch correspondent of the Christian. Those who have had experience of work among the residuum of Edinburgh unite in testifying that in utter depravity it is almost unapproachable. The Salvationists are discovering this, and although the vilest part of the city is circumscribed within narrow limits, it makes up in concentrated wickedness what it lacks in extent of evil influence." If these things exist in the green tree, what of the dry 1 Surely it is time for Christian men to cease dreaming of a converted world (as far as existing agencies are concerned), and to auba!;itutethe
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pre-millennial converted Jewish nation the body, and its in- explanation and expectation of a re-opening of the ception and execution worthy the Millennial Age Eastern Question as one result thereof. As the and the Millennial Kingdom. prophecy is fatal to the reigning influence of the The following also clipped from the Christian present Turkish Dynasty, and shifts the seat of World, is, like the above, a painful illustration of The Astronomer Royal for Scotland (Professor the Caliphate from Constantinople, it is but na2 Tim. iii. 2, "For men shall be lovers of their Symth,) states that the Comet now visible tural that it should be regarded with some interest own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas(Oct. 9,) is very possibly the comet of 1843 there. It is an event, too, in which Britain has a phemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, and 1880 returned before its time (having large stake, with her 40,000,000 Mahommedan unholy."-" The spectacle of children of ten or been retarded in the solar corona), and therefore subjects, and her partial occupation of Egypt, twelve years of age, or even younger, who are to return again still more quickly, and soon to be brought before the magistrates for absence from which country lies between the regions most absorbed by the sun, with effects possibly serious school and other offences,and who are described affected, and is also so near the sacred cities of to the inhabitants of the earth. This calculation as being' beyond the control of their parents,' is Islam-Mecca and Medina. has since been verified by the Astronomer Royal a very painful and suggestive one. In most "The Kingdom and the Restoration; or, a for England (Professor Proctor). May we not cases the fault, doubtless, is to be set down to have in this expected event one of the causes of Scriptural viewof the Second Coming of Christ. the parents ratber than to the children, the inthe wondrous natural phenomena foretold in Bya Student of Prophecy." (see advt.) Under subordination complained of being but the connection with tbe closing days of this dispen- the modest title of "a student of prophecy" we natural outcome of parental incapacity or have a valuable work from a pen familiar with sation? neglect." The following word of wisdom is much needed the setting forth of Divine Truth. We have A confession and a prophecy. "In Europe, read this work with pleasure, and some little Christianity has been intimately associated with to-day, when in their anxiety to absorb the profit. It is however as a primer that we would the powers of the earth. Those powers are now world Christians are in danger of being absorbed recommend it to our readers, as a useful handin decay, and it is, as it were, buried under their thereby, by lowering their standard of right. book to the study of prophecy. Advanced ruins. The living body of religion has been "Christ did not advise His ministers to imitate thinkers will not find much in it that will be new bound down to the dead corpse of superaunuated the arts of the stage and the gymnasium to to them, but they may safely and wisely put it Such expedients were polity; cut but the bonds which restrain it and attract the populace. fitted to produce startling results for a season, into the hands of the enquiring. To this end we it will rise once more. I know not what could invite them to add it to their libraries. The restore the Christian Church of Europe to the and while men of true zeal for God resorted to work is written on the lines known as "futurist," energy of its earlier days; that power belongs to them, great good would be done in spite of their and contains but little in which we should be God alone." De Tocquoeille, We have here, mistakes. But it would be an evil day for this disposed to join issue with its venerable and land and for the world if Christians were induced from this devout member of the Romish Church, respected author.-London: E. Stock. the confession of failure together with the hope to adopt expedients so diametrically opposed to the method of our Lord, and to the very idea of of success. That success will be realized-but it will only be by the manifestation of Divine power, the Church as' founded by the Apostles. What THE RELATIVE POSITION AND at the "Revelation of Jesus Christ.' "Come, they needed in order to increased power as OCCUPATION OF THE CHURCHstewards of the Gospel of Christ was not new Lord Jesus." -THE BODY OF CHRIST-IN THE machinery, but new life." In our advertising columns our readers will find two "Conference Reprints" very suitable for distribution amongst members of Christian Churches, to awaken enquiry on the subject of the advent. It is sufficient to say, by way of reccommendation, that they are from the pens, respectively, of the Revs. W. Leask, D.D_, and Burlington B. Wale. The "Syrian Colonization Fund" has despatched its pioneer colony of one hundred By GENERAL H. GOODWYN. Russian Jews to Syria. They proceed to land [Prepared for the Conference. but not delivered which has been secured for them by the fund, through illness.] and will be received there by the accredited 1. THE promise involved in the mystic proagent of the Society. We are glad to note that phecy, that the seed of the woman should the fund is now above 5,000. Our readers will find a description of the same in our Sept. issue. crush the serpent's head, in due time found the The Daily News report of the Church ~ongress, beginning of its fulfilment in the birth of the The serious floodsand terrible destruction of Redeemer,-Incarnate God! His Advent was speaking of the meeting on the "Jews" says."Testimony was borne to the existence of a property in Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Northern announced by an angelic proclamation of " Good growing spirit of enquiry amongfhe Jews, and Italy seem a warning of those greater disasters tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people I" England wasinvited by more than one speaker to which are in store for a guilty. and sin-loving Heaven re-echoed the song, "Glory to God in take the opportunity of the present Egyptian world, and an erring church. the highest, on earth peace," and the manifestacrisis to solve the Eastern Question by promoting Soon after this issue reaches our readers, we tion of the "goodwill" of God to man. Rea Jewish Restoration."

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Archdeacon Norris, speaking at a meeting in connection with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at Bristol, expressed his belief " that the time was fast approaching when the three or four great societies which now carried on missionary work would be superseded by a more imperial organisation worthy of the English Church and its foreign missions." Let us say, rather, by an autocratic organization of which the manifested Christ shall be the head and the

shall have reached an epoch in Mahommedanism. On the 12th of November it is generally expected that the Mussulman Mahdy (Messiab) will appear to deliver the world of Islam from Gentile power,and introduce the Mussulman Millennium. This general belief cannot but be productive of a great ferment in North Africa, Arabia and Syria, and may bring to the front some ambitious man -on theprinciple that the demand creates the supply. The Times newspaper, and Blackuiood's Magazine have recently given lengthy articles in

demption of the entire fore-elected family of God in all its branches, under whatever circumstances, by whatever means, or at whatever period that blessing might become a conscious reality to the several bodies concerned, was thus heralded from the Throne of God. He spoke and there appeared the Light of a new creation: "A Saviour, Christ the Lord! " I said that the beginning of the promise was fulfilled at His birth, which was but in process of performance in His life and at His death, and

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The enthronement of young Joash, who had been hidden for seven years, is singularly illustrative of the coming scene (2 Kings xi.) to which you may refer; but there is a nobler type, the triumphant entry of the Ark, the symbolic Throne of the Lord of Hosts, into Jerusalem, .when David gathered "all Israel" togetber, and organised a national procession with musicians and choirs of singers (2 Sam. vi.) Once more will .he be required to gather the nation to bring into Jerusalem-not the Ark, but-the King Himself, who has said, "The place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet!" (Ezek. xliii. 7.) An exceeding great army of patriarchs, princes, and prophets, all white-robed priests, shallswell the pageant, shouting their hosannas to" The King of Glory," the Lord of the whole earth; and, as in Ps, xxiv., bidding the everlasting gates of resuscitated and beautified Jerusalem to open to Himwho "comethin the Name of JEHCJVAHI" , 2. That the King will also be the guardian deliverer of Israel from all foreign enemies, will be made known to all nations by the sudden invasion of the land by Russian hordes, assisted by Persia and Ethiopia at the beginning of the Millennium, when Israel will be living in unsuspicious security. These vast legions will be permitted to enter the land, and there be -destroyed by sword, fire, brimstone and hail from heaven, leaving but a sixth part to be afterwards dealt with. So great will be the multi. tude of invaders, that it will take seven months to bury the slain! (Ezek. xxxviii. xxxix.) 3. Satan, who since the day of Pentecost, has hindered the Gospel by every lying and subtle means, will, during the ministry of Israel be securely bound in the abyss, to prevent any hindrance, that the word of God may have free course amongst the nations. (Rev. xx.) 4. The New Jerusalem will have" descended out of Heaven," and be manifested in the firmamament in its golden and jewelled glory. A city having the glory of God whose light is the Lamb, whose throne as Son of God will be in it, and where will be manifested in glory the wife of the Lamb, as inhabiting the mansions of their Father's house. Time and powers would fail to describethis wondrous city, but it is displayed in all detail in Rev. xxi. 5. The earthly city of Jerusalem, renovated and rebuilt in the gorgeous excellencydescribed in Isa. lx. and Ezek. xlv, 6; xlviii. 15-end. " The city of the Great King," whose "walls will be Salvation, and her gates Praise." Between these two cities will be angelic intercommunication, fulfilling the type of Jacob's ladder, for the perfect judicial and ecclesiastical government. The new Temple also will be erected on a mountain to the north of the city. (Ezek. xli.~xliii.)

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word panoply stand for a logical and faultless apprehension of Bible truth; supposing such an attainment possible to finite man; and thus furnished, let the evangelical crusader go to work, strong in the conviction (a very true and lawful one) that unsophisticated truth is an infinitely more serviceableweapon than diluted truth. And what will be the result of his campaigning ? We cannot say; no man may say. But he must not be surprised or dismayed if he should chance to discoverthat his own results are immeasurably eclipsed by those of other workers whose weapons he would scorn to adopt. Illustrations of this state of things are, at the present day, lying around us in all directions. Our fellow.believers in the doctrines of Life in Christ can~ot desert their'distinctive colours; yet how glad they would be to share the proselyting spoils of William Haslam or Dwight Moody, and with them to enjoy the ratification of true credentials.

6. Entire removal of the curse, and restitution of Edenlike fertility to the land, together with the Eden condition 0 the animal creation, for the last Adam is the Creator thereof. (Isa. =. li. 3, xi.) 7. A river of living water shall burst forth from the temple in two streams, one towards the Mediterran~an-and the other towards the Dead Sea. The latter -ui be healed and become a fresh water lake, productive of fish, and vegetation oflux~riantt:ees on its shores. (Ezek. xlviLr

VIII. These miraculous -phenomena will be Divinely permitted in attestation of Israel's mission; {the record announcing them is, in almost every instance accompanied by the significant words, " That the heathen may know that I am the Lord." Proving thereby that the object of the Mission will be the extirpation of idolatry (Isa .. ii.), and conversion of these nations to the knowledge of the one true God! Or in the words of the Apostles, "That the Where then lies the hindrance? Do we doubt light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the inherent force of our principles? No, not the image of God, should shine unto them 1" for a moment. Is it then that our mode of From what I have advanced from the word of presenting them is complicated, or encumbered God; I emphatically and boldly affirm that there with side issues? or is the great want that of can be no second advent, no kingdom, nor evangelists fired, not with less love for truth, but Apocalypseof the Son of God, in a Scriptural with more sympathy for "the commonpeople?" sense, that is not demonstrated to have for one - or does the slow growth of Pauline theology of its great objects the fulfilment of the covenant arise from the soil of the popular conscience made to the Fathers of Israel (Rom. xv. 8-12),in being poisoned through the false teaching of regard to the salvation of the heathen nations, centuries ?-or are "the common people" less by the means which I have described, and that likely to be charmed with the message of life now is not preceded and accompanied by such events and phenomena as those I have deduced from than they were in the days of the Son of Man, when we are assured they heard Him gladly? the RevealedWord. (Gen. xxii. 17, 18, xxviii. Something no doubt is to be gathered from all 14, 15, Isa, ii. 1-4, Acts xv. 14-17.) the above considerations, and none ofthem ought Reading. to paralyse our arm or make us stand in doubt of ultimate triumph. We happen to know that the intellectual appetite of the manufacturing THE WEAPONS OF OUR classeswho come within the range of Mr. Edward White's influence in Camden Town is sensibly on WARFARE. the increase; similar messages reach us from BY JAMES WAYLEN. Mr. Brown, of NewZealand, and numerous other VERY defectiveweapon may do astonishing centres at home and abroad could no doubt work, provided the arm which wields it be furnish sunshiny details. So that what we have nerved with fire. But it were vain for the non- to do just now is to be thankful for the weapons commissioned champion to seize the historical which the Great Captain has put into our hands, jawbone, or the ox-goad of another illustrious to be far more lavish in the distribution of pure warrior, and exclaim" surely the weapon with doctrinal literature, to keep to the central idea in which Samson slew his thousand must be irres- all public discourses, and not allow the attention sistible. Armed with the same instrument, I will of the listeners to bedistracted or amused by side go forth and in like manner decimate the camp issues. This latter point was forcibly insisted of the Philistines." upon at our recent Conference in the city of Nay, nay, my friend, you will be chased from Salisbury. the field with ignominy. Who knows, my friends, but that our present_ Furthermore, it would be an equally arrogant impatience at delay will soon be rebuked and enterprise if you were to take the field, armed in swallowedup by astonishment at success? For panoply, if the panoply be the thing in which " great is the truth, and it must prevail." you trust. To give this maxim a practical shape, let the

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entered. Father _or son, mother or daughter, recoil of nature from the malign teaching of the brother or sister, companion or friend, may not creeds. The fate therein described is more than By W. G. l\1.oNCRJEFF. have spent the best of lives; nay, perchance can be thought of; if dwelt upon, reason would HIS thing has greatly impressed me, that I may have ended their career sadly deformed by fail to preserve its balance. The death-bed have not met one believer in the eternal sinful habits; but, for some rea-sonor other, they physical agonies of loved ones, quite irrestorment theory who appeared to admit to himself cannot be supposed to find a dwelling now pective of their spiritual condition, harrow that any relation or cherished friend of his, who where the dismal creeds appoint all such ulti- the feelings well-nigh beyond endnrance, and had given no clear evidence of conversion before mately to congregate, and the'y are ther~fore held enfeeble the wearied watchers by the couch of passing away, had gone to the abode of wretch- to have gone to a pleasanter locality:_ all pain. This one comfort at least remains for edness. I can look back on many such cases, difficulties in accomplishing their rescue and attendants, the suffering cannot last. Death and they are all of a similar character; not an exaltation being conveniently overlooked. In will soon allay the storm, and release the interested survivor had a suspicion that it was such cases, my -observation has been, friends sufferer and his heart-wrung friends. To ill with the removed, and in many instances tarrying behind do not suspend judgment,-the heaven, when all hope of cure has fled, the inassurances of their felicity were uttered. in un- while awe-struck into silence by transpiring articulate prayer has often risen from watchers qualified terms. Myobject has been carefully to events,-leaving the matter, as they surely on tho doomed that the relieving crisis might watch examples of the kind, without once ever might in wisdom, with the All-Just; no, the speedily draw near. Assure them that for hinting my purpose when noting results and awful abyss is for none on whom-their affections months yet the object of their care must submit inscribing spontaneous utterances on my were placed, and they are unhesitatingly spoken to cruel throes, and can we doubt the effect of memory for future use. On occasions when of as already at an infinite remove from its the communication on their sensibilities? notoriously - wicked persons-openly profane, terrors and pangs. Thus the generality soothe Nature bears up under such spectacles because drunkards, and the scandalously impure, for their hearts in such hours of bereavement, and there may be recovery at length; when that is a example-had been suddenly laid low, it was human ingenuity, helped by tender tearful vain expectation, she reposes in the belief that always the same,-not one case was looked sympathy, effects for the most depraved even the great rest-bringing change cannot be far upon with despair; on the contrary, as a rule, the final deliverance which renders their long away. Transfer the sufferer to what is called friends described them as now separated from future, regarded as the destiny of all, an the other world, add torment unspeakable to his all their frailties, and as mingling henceforth in experience of heavenly peace. That the mental whole being, add the element of ceaselessness, the society above. Not one sorrowed over them act of transporting them to such a field of add the gloom and blasphemy supposed to be as those who had no hope. Why, without any existence avails nothing in reality, disturbs not collected in the region of horrors, and need we discoverable valid authority, they settled matters one mourner anxious to escape from the horrors wonder when a beloved one expires,-one who in that easy way is a legitimate inquiry; it must which the grim Tartarian enclosure behind the had been a stranger could scarcely have been tarry, however, till our contribution is further 'veil so inevitably suggests. As if they had the reckoned fit for Paradise,-that there is no hesitaadvanced. key of the nether world, and the key of Paradise tion in assigning him immediately an entrance Such has been my own discovery in instances in their charge, they lock the dismal doors and among the blissful and the just. Every plea manifold, and I have also taken steps to deter- open the gates of light at their will. Judging by that the nimbleness of intellect can fabricate will mine what in like circumstances others-persons their conclusions, human friendly choice regu- bend the heart in favour of a tranquil hereafter in whose accuracy and credibility dependence lates the destiny of all, and it is ever so arranged in his case. But defined plea or no plea, he might be placed-had found. "I'heir testimony in the most desperate instances so as to provide cannot be considered as in the pit; the mind exactly corresponded with my own; the worst, abundant solace for those who weep: whether revolts from such a conception and humanity without exception, fare as enviably, in the it is genuine, enduring solaceis obviouslyforeign triumphs over the dogma of perpetual woe. It opinion of surviving friends, as the best. At to the question altogether. As a deplorable, yea is the up-rising, not unarmed, of reason for her any rate, that the most impenitent had gone tremendous result, Christ ceases to be an indis- own preservation, It is her free-born, unconbelow, where terrible experiences are known, pensible factor in the issues of salvation; pro- querable protest against the barbarity that blind was a thought not to be entertained for a single mises to His friends, threats against impiety, ruthless, fleshly minds have audaciously ascribed moment. Happened it that the deceased, who are simply airy nothings that come and go. to Him who is the Judge of All, who while He had been cut down in their godless state, were reigns in righteousness is encompassed,and ever There must be a reason for this peculiaritystrangers in whom no special concern was felt, will be encompassed, with the symbols and the their probable fate might be dimly adverted to, non-belief in the misery of dear ones who are songs-of infinite love. perhaps with something like a shudder, and a smitten down without repentance, or time for hope expressed that all present would leave this .repentance. It has its origin not, to the best of When in analogous circumstances others, scene in a better mind, and with better prospects. my discernment, in a doubt of the orthodox differently constituted perhaps, begin to realize Relationship, on such occasions, made all the tenet, for those who are so hasty with their what the ancient and savage threatening means, difference. Hell would certainly, as an abstract compassion cling to it rigorously, and not unfre- they defiantly hurl the Bible from them as a verity, receive the unconverted when summoned quently go so far as to denounce as heretics monstrous oriental myth. With them the Bible hence, but it had no dungeon for any connexion whoever may pronounce it-the fiery threatand the dogma are one. Thinking so, can we be an imposture. Indeed, hell is the key-stone of of theirs. astonished when they banish them, with a parting Whatever the motive may be, this method of their gloomy religion, and if removed the whole malediction, from their sympathy and table in disposing of profane, at all events Christless, structure-all that is morally authoritative, all company? To gain this very result is a part of kindred, renders, so far as mortals can arrange that has spiritual potency, all that impels men the tactics of Col. Ingersoll, the clever, witty, final allotments, salvation as nearly universal as to the Saviour, hurries forthwith down into and eloquent apostle of unbelief. He attacks may be. Few die without some one to shed a ruins. the atrocious dogma invented by priests and pattear over their departure, and to wish them well For myself I discover no explanation of the ronised by the churches, yet never enquiresin the untried region they are supposed to have fact except this, that it is the forceful, instinctive "But after all is it in the _Scriptures, old or

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new"? that He ought by this time to understand of the Book.
OR

THE BIBLE

STANDARD.
Ex. xv.
kind of Siberia. Jer. xlix. 17,18. respecting Joel iii.19. Jeremiah Ezek. xxxv. 14.15. agrees with Isaiah fire. UnquenchAfter the

Moses foretold the downfall of Edom. 15. away. Isaac also. And this son. Gen. xxvii. 40. took

it is not the teaching alternative

He

Isaac foretold, Jehoram, What

ought to know that in its pages, the simple, but momentous that there judice is-LIFE DEATH; and if Death is preferred That by any son of man, can in reason preagainst Life: the agony bosom may taking those

too, in the same breath, that Edom would break place under Jehoshaphat's 2 Kings viii. 20-22.

the un quenchable

able, however, is not un-go-outable. unquenchable has ceased Antichrist

fire has gone out, and the smoke to ascend, Edom will be a. place of will try to possess Edom, Dan, xi. 41. Ezek. but he

is no wrong no fair-minded

done in allowing his own individual

evidence this is that the Holy Spirit spoke by Moses and Isaac I Edom was a beautiful country south of Cannan. Gen. xxvii. 39. And it was strong. She refused Ezekiel Obad. 3. Israel a But God's curse rested upon it. What was Edom's sin? passage. she" 5. Num. xx. 14-21. Amos i. 11,12. puts it that

choice to take effect. Book of God. it agitate

rest for wild beasts. will not be allowed. That honour I, I,

It brings no interminable any friendly

to those who refuse Everlasting beyond measure

nor need

is reserved for the Christ of God when he comes back. Isa. xxxiv. 5, 6. I will do it. Balaam concerning xxxv. 3, &c. Psa. lx, and cvii. foretold Edom. this action Over Edom will of the Messiah 17-19. Isa.,

when the irreversible doom has been undergone, though many a time the calm, sad thought rise in the heart as eternity proceeds, Would that some such form as this :-"

poured out the children of Israel.' See 2 Chron. xxviii. 16,17. Ezek. xxxv. 10-11.

xxxv.

I cast out my shoe (take possession). Num, xxiv. referred

She envied and She rejoiced

hated Israel. 7. Obad. 12.

for whom our love was great, now in the deep shadow of oblivion, had received Christ, and by the aid of His mighty arm climbed with 'us the stairway, long and steep though it was, that conducted to glory, honour, and immortality." London, Ontario, Canada.

over Israel's captivity in Babylon .. Psa. cxxxvii. Read Obad. 1-14. Gen. xxxvi. is epitomized in 1 Chron. i. 35-54. And the same order as in Genesis is preserved. In ver. 35 to 37, we have the children In 38 to 42, the original Seir. 51 to 54, certain eminent inhabitants of Esau. of Mount In

also, lxiii. 1-6.

How often, but how erroneously, to the first

are these two prophecies coming of Christ.

Edom will be an accursed Millennium. Obad. 15-21. practical not wrath:' reviled, notHis Lord."

land even in the We find the 1." Avenge unto opened 2. saith the "Touch toucheth thee shall He was place "He

Has not Edom a voice to us? lesson in Rom, xii. 19. but rather xxiii. 7. not "He give See Deut, He reviled mouth." yourselves,

In 43 to 50, certain kings before Saul.

dukes, who probably The two accounts

BIBLE By J.

STUDY.
Genesis xxxvi.
CHALLICE.

flourished under those kings.

"When

Edam, or Idumea.

were, most likely, taken from the same records. It is likely that Ezra put Gep. xxxvi. where it is. It is manifest that Moses did not. The words (31) " before there reigned any king OV61' Israel" the reign of those kings. And what is the state of Edom Isa. xxxiv. 5-11. read Isa. xxxiv. without to-day? A land of desolation. I cannot,

again." answered

nothing."

"Vengeance

is mine,

I will repay, for, Israel. "He that

THIS

chapter

is, perhaps,

seldom

read

in

See Zech viii. 2-5. &c." "The "Take

Edom was jealous

private, and has, probably, never been read in public. Yet it is very profitable as a study. It is always interesting through the Scripture. esting. to trace a given country Edom is painfully inter-

must have been written after, or at least during,

of, and God was jealous not mine anointed, you toucheth, &c." &c."

Lord taketh my part, against "Whoso heed that thou speak

"No weapon that is formed

however,

shall prosper, &c."

In verses 1 to 19 we have a record of the three wives of Esau and their children. the land [see Gen. xiv, 6.] certain Saul. In 20 to 30 of we are carried back to the original inhabitants

perceiving that it has been only partially fulfilled. And, if some prophecies I say that punishment Edom have been fulfilled to received the full the letter, why should not all ? has not Why?

not to Jacob from good to bad."

stumble one of these little ones, &c." us. This is, I think, the voice which Edom has to London.

In 3t to 39 we have

kings before the time of Saul, king of In 40 to 43 we have certain arrangement by Esau. that dukes who Mount Seir

here spoken of.

I say, too, that Because her sins Israel Israel,' [Balance

CONFERENCE REPORT.
Discussion.] of Second 'Evening's HE REV. J ..ROBERTS (Methodist Free Church), who rose m response to the Chairman's invitation, said he had not intended saying a single word when he entered that Conference. He was bound to say, however, he agreed almost 'entirely with the remarks of the gentleman who opened that discnssion, and of the gentleman who succeeded him. But it seemed to him that the gentlemen who had spoken had been simply dealing-as he understood it-s-with the return of Christ to the earth; but they had not dealt .so conclusively as to convince him of the reign in person. He went with Mr. Mackay ; indeed, 'he could say "hear, hear" to almost all his remarks; and believed most emphatically in Christ's coming again. But would He come again to reign in person? He was rather he was going to say very much, surprised at o~e or two texts of Scripture quoted in support of their doctrine. Among others-" If I go away I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am there may ye be also." That seemed to him to show that Christ was not coming down, to dwell with us; but that Christ was coming down to take us with Him. The suggestio.n of Cb~'ist coming and humanity meeting Him m the all', looked a good deal too much-like a ballooniu g sort of thing. Indeed, as he read the passage, " We shall he taken up in the air,

Israel, reaching, I suppose, nearly or quite up to probably flourished under these kings. It was God's should be possessed Josh. xxiv. 4. The compiler impress the fact terms. synonymous named Edom 30. and Bozrah. quer Edom. the conquest.

Edom will receive it. are not pardoned.

Her sin of refusing

a passage, and all her other sins against

Deut, ii. 4, 5.

have not been pardoned to-day. How can they? God will by no means clear the guilty-a-that is, without atonement. No atonement has been, or If we had the ever will be, offered for Edom. opportunity curse rests of possessing upon Edom.

of our chapter was anxious to that Esau and Edom were Vel'. 1, 8, 9, 43. Esau was Gen. xxv.

1,000 acres of land Individual Edomites can. so, And

there, I hope we should not accept it, for God's can be pardoned, Mark. iii. 8. as individual Englishmen I think

from the red pottage. Amos. i. 12.

Two celebrated cities of Edom were Teman Saul began to conDavid completed 1 Killgs xi. 15. 1 Sam. xiv. 47. 2 Sam, viii, 14.

Hence, will Edom revive again? with the rest of those eastern will she prosper in her revival P

countries.

I hope David did it only in self-defence, because of Deut, ii. 4, 5. Edom was allowed to keep up a show of independence. written 2 Kings iii. 9. But notice what is 1 Kings xxii. 47. Ezionwould of a previous period.

She may for a Mal: i. 4.

time; yet God's curse rests upon her. Yes, I see Israel from God. revive. Psa.

back in Palestine in unbelief, countries flourishing apart 1-6. And, though Isa. xi. 14. Israel I do

and the neighbouring lxxxiii.

And I think the old sin of envy may

That is mentioned

because of verse 48.

geber belonged to Edom, and Jehoshaphat conquered country.

was not to take a foot of that land, God will give it to her. Amos ix. 11,12. not think it will be of much -value to ber, only a

have had no right there if it had not been a

and shall. be forever with ithe Lord," it did' not thought it would be a spiritual coming-c-an outlead him to think there, would be a return. pouring of the Spirit, in the way of a large conMr. BROOKS asked to be allowed to say a word version of the wor.ld taking place. But ~e had in reply to Mr. Roberts,-whom he assured that never been absent III that sens.e, and so, III that it gave him great pleasure to see present, and to sense He could never return !o It. Some thought renew the acquaintanceship which had produced He would come provldentIall~. ~ut He had such pleasantness in Cornwall. Mr. Roberts never been so a.bsent. H~ p:o.vldentIally led the had said that the saints meeting their Lord in Church collectively !l;nd iudividually ; therefore, the air looked a good deal like "ballooning." He c.ould .never be said to return to the Chu.rch Would he suffer him to remind him that whilst providentially, Th~y were-after all the devices it was said "I will come again and receive you 0' the supl?osed,wIs~-thr.own back ~pon the unto Myself," there was no passage in the Word literal meanmg ?f HIS word: H~ believed that of God which' said Christ would return to the He w?uld r:ome litera~ly and III HIS own perso~. heavens: whilst it was distinctly said He would And m this C?nllectlOn he would say th.at It descend to earth, and all the saints with Him. would be ,,:ell If they always kept to th~ literal If then the last speaker ignored this the saints text of HI,S Word. The argument might be would be always in the air, which looked very 'us~d-" But it is strange." Many" strange" much indeed like what Mr.. Roberts meant by things ~he.,p.rophets foretold had. .happened, It ballooning "-if the inference might be par. \,:a~ said- our Lord would go mto Jerusalem doned-for ever. riding upon an as,s. They w?uld, perhaps, haye Mr. ROBERTS replied: But it was the being laughed at t~at Ide~ nOW-It would not be I? taken up and the letting down again I objected to. consonance WIth the Ideas of orthodoxy .. But It Mr. BROOKSresponded: I think one might turned ~ut to be literally true .. Accepting the raise a much more valid objection. We, as I ;;,ords literally, wha,t was meant, b~"the w~r~s said, should be for ever in the air according to The throne of HIS father David i David s your statement, as it is nowhere. stated that the throne was an eart~ly throne; as much as was Lord shall return 'to heaven when 'He comes to the thrones of Persia, Greece, Ro~e. It was ,a receive His kingdom. I await correction. throne on earth; then he would reign upon this The Rev. B. B. WALE,who was asked to reply, earth. ( Crowded, ont last issue.) said he was obliged -to make the confession that , he did not see much in Mr. Roberts' objectious; , personally, he did ;llot", apparently, start any difficulty with him, As to the pleasantry about BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS " ballooning," he much regretted that a brother G U ID E AND C H R:Q N,I C,LE. minister in Christ should have' used such a ' phrase, Sublime subjects could be easily made LIVERPOOL :-Sec. : Mr. W. H. Miller, 9, Clayton ridiculous. They believed that thesubject could Sqr. not be, treated, with t90 much solemnity, regard. NEW ZEALAND :-Sec.: Rev. G. A. Brown, Lining it from -their standpoint, or not. (Hear, dum Hous-e, Vincent St., Auckland. Sepahear.) The statements he made he took care to rate Organ the New Zealand Bible Standard, enforce from Scripture; they were no] his own post-free direct 3s. 6d. per annum. words. That we should be caught up and meet SOUTH AUSTRALIA :-:;;ec.: Mr. G. H. Glover, Christ in the air was a Bible statement, and Kent Town. therefore he believed.cit, He believed that the LONDON,N. W. :-Sec.: R. J. Hammond, Esq., word ': meet" was ~ word expressive of the action 80,.Edgware Rd., W. of subsequently returning. 'I'he 'word" meet" BRADFORD, YORKS.:-Sec.: Mr. Walter Clark, 6, itself was expressive of that sense. It was also Exeter St. written" The Lord shall stand, in that day upon CAl\IADA :~Sec,: ).\'[r. G. H., Hills, 17, WilIiam " the Mount of Olives," and that .then His saints St., Yorkville, Ontario ... s i shall come with Him. That statement he beN.B.~This Periodical,' -together with the lievedas a future ~act. But one .other simple Literature of the Associatjon, can be 'procured fact, The Lord ~'shall sit up.on the throne of of any of the above Branches. Members en. His father ~pavid.': Did Christ ever have a rolled therewith are included in the General throne in hsaven j He shared His Father's! Association. David -never reigned in heaven .. It was not a spiritual throne. It was not a throne NEW ZEAr,AND.-Thames' Goldfields, Aug. 14, iJ;1 heaven, It was p.' throne .on earth, where 18~2.-If the acoompanying scribble is or any Christ had never yet reigned. If the Word service you are at liberty to use it.. A letter speaks truth, ~f the angels speak truth, from you will be acceptable. Bro. Brown has it shall be on earth. And the place of His lost his youngest son recently. Mrs. Brown is su.ffaring shall ye,t be the place of His vindication ve~y weak and .poorly. He 'finds business and and glory. The last the world saw of Him was the Lord's work combined a great burden-as it when they crucified Him and cast Him out as falls on him at present; we hope he will 'be rethough He had dishonoured the world H~ had lieved now. Bro. Aldridge and myself. are well. saved. He will come again, and" every knee -Your brother in Christ,.E.,H. Taylor (late of shall bow," and "His enemies, shall kiss the, Teignmouth, England,) , dust." , 'The city 'of Auckland is one of the most Mr .. MOOREexpressedhis personal regret that picturesque towns of this new world, being, inMr. Smith was not present that he might reply, deed," pleasant for situation." It commands a Whatever statements he had made, they might magnificent harbour, and carries on a trade that rely upon it, he believed justified by the Book. would surprise our, people at home, many of And they would have found he could have given whom imagine that but few of their own race a Scriptural warrant for every word he wrote. live here, and that the native, races of this The views he advocated might appear strange; country are quite uncivilized. This is a great ,the,y.i~ws they advocated, as an Association ap- mistake; the natives, such as they are, are kind peared strange. All progressive views had ap- and hospitable; but, sorry ,af! I, am to say it, peared strange. There was a time when the rum, &c., is fast improving them (a noble race) temperance views appeared strange; every off the face of the earth. The city of Auckland social reform had presented the same eccentricity has 30,000 European inhabitants, and every conto the eyes of the conservative in thought. Their venience of civilization, as much as the' people views would, however, lose their strangeness, at home. Nearly three years since Bro. G. A. It was simply an old truth pronounced. The Brown landed here from Lincoln, England, and Christian Church believed that Christ would some six months after commenced his labours come; but there was a variety of opinion as to as a servant of God. You will not perhaps be the character or that coming. Some gentlemen surprised when I say that few men have been
r

called upon to bear so much wilful misrepresentation as he has. The enemy of man raised such a storm of opposition, and circulated so many unfounded reports and falsehoods, that the wonder is how he has stood it all; however, conscious of Divine assistance, our brother buckled on the whole armour of God, and went forward not consulting self; and richly has our Heavenly Father crowned his labour with suecess. The second anniversary of the Church has just been celebrated. There are some 130 members, and the Sunday evening congregation in the Opera House ranges from 1,300 to 1,600. It would do, your heart good to be, present at some of our Sunday morning fellowship meetings, and hear the experience of the brethren. One brother recently described in a very graphic manner how he was gradually slipping away and abandoning religion and the Bible, when in an orthodox church. Yet to see the light of his eye and his pleasant countenance as he related his present experience and the fullness of joy he realized in Christ as the Life-Giver, showed unmistakeably that the broken chords were. again vibrating and FULL OF LIB. Meeting another gentleman one day he said, 'For four years previous to Mr. Brown's coming I never went to the house of prayer, and did not care to recognize Christ as the Bedeemer ; now, thank God, this is changed, and I am again trusting in Him who is the Resurrection and the Life.' I might go on multiplying cases of, this kind, by the dozen. The Gospel, as eloquently preached by Bro. Brown, has drawn together a promising Church, but his influence ,has not J;,een confined to it, but has been feIt in all the other Churches of the city, and has caused professing Christians generally to re- read their Bible.s., It is beginning to be acknowledged that he has been a powerful instrument, used by God in Auckland, in accelerating the progress of light, breaking down the barriers of Sectarianism, and causing narrow and unfurnished mindsto acknowledge that religion does not consist in the perpetuation of darkness, ignorance, and error, but in a steadfast continuance in well-doing, and a re, living of the Christ of the Gospel who went about doing good. Of course the light .is spreading. The cry is MORELIGHT. The people are anxious to learn and know the truth. Amongst our own people diligent search is going on, and several are regularly studying Greek, and some few are getting fairly proficient under the tutorship of a venerable Presbyterian minister, who is aregular attendant at Bro. Brown's services. A number of brethren are well able to give a reason for the faith in them, whom we are looking forward to as those who will yet do good work for the Master. Their services are and will be much needed. Take, for instance, the state of re ..... ligious teaching 'in one of our towns here. One minister teaches that the "seven seals" mean the seven days of creation. Another educates his people to believe that the first resurrection is simply a resurrection of opinions and principles. A third says that nowhere in God's Word can a single passage be found, that teaches Christ is coming personally. While a fourth declares INSTINc'rto be immortal i, with such dark clouds of ignorance and such conflicting teaching is it any wonder that a large proportion of thinking men and women grow careless find unconcerned about the future. Yet we are not discouraged, because the people are anxious to know the truth, and manyhave incurred the anathema of their PASTORS by coming to our meetings-and real good meetings we get too. The work here ought to cheer our brethren at home. If one, in God's hands can be made such a power as Bro, Brown has been, what ought the Association at home to be? A Church of 130 members, an evening congregation of 1,30q people, a monthly periodical circulating the truth, regular meetings in Onehunga, a Sunday school at Mount Eden, bright [prospects of a good Church being formed

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~tlie Thames Goldfield, and means to carry on a summer campaign in the shape of a caravan and tent, with two Evangelists at work, and weekly additions to our number and influence, is a good report for a little over two years' labour. We hope, now our dear Bro. Aldridge has arrived, to consolidate the forces brought together, trusting alone in the Almighty One for strength to follow up the herculean efforts of our New Zealand champion, Bro. G. A. Brown.

THE

BmLE

STANDARD.
ize a series of Winter and Spring Lectures in addition to the Autumn Conference. To this end 17 17s. was promised at the late Conference. which will be forthcoming as soon as the fund is fairly started. It is desired to arrange a series' of lectures during the next six months in Manchester. Birmingham, Bristol. and other large centres of population. We shall be glad to receive donations or promises on behalf thereof, and also to hear from local friends in these or other places, who are willing to co-operate with us-as Local Committees-in carrying such purpose to a successful issue. Donations may be sent to any Member of the Executive Committee.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

success. In the absence of the Mayor (W. N. Skillicorne, Esq., J.P.), through illness, tbe Rev. J. A. Owen, M.A. (Episcopalian) presided. Addresses were given by the Revs. J. Manley Camp [(Bermondsey), Professor Fergusson, Hirst, and Coad, and by Messrs. G. Goldston, and C. E. Brooks (Malvern.) The pastor gave the closing address. On Wednesday, the 11th, Mr. Camp gave a telling oration in the Lecture Hall (in connection with the winter series of lectures), on "W. E. Gladstone." The attendance was not equal to the merits of the lecture. The church secretary's report states that since SUBSCRIBING CHURCHES the pastor's settlement, about three months GUIDE AND CHRONICLE. since, " the congregation has nearly trebled, the income nearly doubled, and fourteen applications LONDON, . :-Maberly N Chapel (Congregational), received for membership and re-membership." Ball's Pond Bd., Kingsland. Min.: Rev. LINCOLN.-Mint Lane Ghapel.-The Rev. G. W. Leask, D.D. S. Services 11 & 6-30. P. Mackay has commenced a course of six SunLINCOLN :-Mint Lane Chapel (Baptist). Min.: day evening lectures upon" the doings of Daniel Rev. G. P. Mackay. S. Services 10-30 & 6. the Prophet." SKIPTON(Yorks) :-Mission Church, Temperance Hall. Supplies. S. Services 10-30 & 6. BRADFoRD.-Temperance Hall,-We regret GLASGOW :-Christian Meeting, 13, Kirk St., Gorto announce the death of our dear sister in the bals. Supplies. S. Servioes 11 & 3. faith. Hannah Wilkinson, of Clayton. She BRADFORD(Yorks) :-Mission Church, Temperdied on September 9th, and was laid to rest ance Hall. Chapel St., Leeds Rd. Supplies. on the 12th. Age 59. For 30 years a Christian, S. Services 11 & 6-30. for 3 years a believer in " Life only in Christ." TORQUAy:-Life and Advent Free Church, East Died rejoicing in the hope of a glorious resurSt., Torre. Supplies. S. Services 11 & 6-30. rection at the coming of Jesus,-to be clothed LONDON, .W. :-Christian N Meeting, St. John's upon with incorrruptibility. Bro. Paul inRooms. Grove St., Lisson Grove. Min.: R. terred her, who was debarred from reading J.Hammond, Esq. S. Services 11 & 7. over her in the Chapel (Wesleyan), on acHULL :-Christian Meeting, Protestant Hall. count of his belief, but allowed to do so outSupplies. S. Services 11 & 6-30. side, when he made known her " Blessed CHELTENHAM :-Regent St. Chapel (Baptist). Hope." Min.: Rev. J. C. Carlile. S. Services 11 and 6-30. CARLISLE :-Christian Meeting. (Private.) OFFICENOTES. GRAVESEND :-Christian Meeting, Manor Rd. Room. Pres. Min.: Mr. G. Gosden. S. MONTHLY STATEMENT. Services 11 & 6-30. Thurs. 8-30. September 1st to 30th, 1882. N.B.-The above Churches make an Annual New Members received :-Life -, Annual 8, Collection. Offertory, or Grant in aid of the AssoTotal 8. ciation. The saqie favour is requested from Branch-; other Churches in sympathy with the teachings Subscriptions, Donations, and Collections: thereof. . B. d. B. d. TORQuAy.-Paignton Branch.-Good work has G. H., Nottingham 0 36 B. R.,BarneB .. 1 10 been done here by open-air meetings on Sunday J. G., Glasgow 0 5 0 M. M., Peckham .-. 0 5 0 evenings. These have been numerously attended, J. S. Sunbury .. 0 lOOT. G. W. Newton Abbott ... 0 2 6 several hundred persons having at times been D. T., Reading .... 0 3 6 H. 0 0 listening. A friend says, " The truth is damag- W. K. S.,M Liverpool 0 10 0 A. T .South AUBtralia 0 7 0 R. Glasgow . 5 Gorbals, Glasgow, ing some of the old traditional tenets here. and E. B . Salisbury . 0 5 0 Ch. Sub ... 1 0 0 . 0 50 T.J.H.,jun.,Glasgow many sensible and honest men cease to defend E.E.B.... Gravesend Ch. Sub . O 5 0 per Sen 0 2 G them." We are glad to see that the room lately E. C. Reading .. 0 3 0 A. M. K Romford 0 5 0 occu pied has become too small for the increasing F. S. London ...... 0 2 6 J. B., Oarshalton . 0 3 6 J. MKirkealdy 0 3 0 A. H,. Bacup ., 0 10 0 congregation, and that the Palace Hall, Church 0 10 0 F. S. Bicester .. 0 5 0 Street, has been taken for the Sunday evening J.W.D.,London G.E.O.,Edinburghper C.H . Luton ... 0 26 services. Mr. H. Cliff conducted the first service W. L ...... U 5 0 J. M., Banbury, extra 0 1 0 on October Lst, and afterwards held a special R. J. N., 0 5 0 R. W., Donceater .. 0 S 6 ,,0 S 6 C. J. B . Plymouth . 0 5 0 service and delivered an address on "Does the W.L.,Jun... " 0 S 6 J. G., Deddington .. 0 5 0 Bible teach the natural immortality of the J. W., W.L., u 050 soul?" These special after-services have been L.W . Nottingham per Total 10 1 0 C.H....... O 26 continued through the month by Messrs. H. H. B., Lincoln " 0 2 6 Matthews, J. Hawke, and H. Cliff. A public tea G.J ... S., Indi .... 0 50 and meeting was held on Oct. 4th. i East Street, Torre.-The parent Church here S'" DUE SUBSCRIPTIONS.-Those Memhas secured larger and more central premises in bers, Associates, and Subscribers who receive which to hold its services. 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pROFESSOR according received higher tific societies Genesis: therefore,

AND SELEOTIONS.
DANA, of Yale College, honours from European who, scienof to the New York Observer, has than any geologist now living in says of the first chapter accord with known it as a geologist, I find it science; I assert that the Bible

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