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LIVING FATHER hath sent Me, and I live by the Father." expression unless (" Living Father" or Living it be supposed meaning: would the claim have been to harmonise dispensation, bad For, best with This God), the has no

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Deity as the Son to have For, howIn resurrection therefore, have lifted glorified Thus: unto unto the heavens and said" whose" humanity, Christ, too, could of His like

Word (tbat is, in His essential said, " I live in or with festations

of God), it would have been more correct the Father": however diverse and numerous of the Great First Being: the "There glory are clearly the manifestations One, Self-Existent "Hear, Lord." but 9ne." Thou Thee before are One" 5; x.30.) In, then, their prophetic sense,

the hand

I live for ever." eyes were as a and in his

may be the maniof One, and but

John, in vision, saw in Patmos One" the Son of Man,"

claim made in the previous distinctive Father had been the attribute claimed,

Cause to men, they Thus _Moses spoke:

pourer merely
it: life, or, then

flame of fire;

and His feet like unto fine brass; was as the sun shineth

Creative or Almighty expressed

and His voice as the sound of many waters; His countenance strength:"

0 Israel;
Paul wrote: Me, with (Deut.vi

Lord

our God is One is none other God "Father, which glorify I bad with

for underived Father but, no, whilst been justly and the thought

And He said unto him, " Fear not: I am He that liveth, and behold, I am alive for eve1'-

Eternal. or Self-existent served to convey it: migbt mind have atti'ibutes Christ's that

would have fully both these claimed for in

And Christ added: the

I am the first and the last: and was dead;

the world was," "I and My Father 14; 1 C01. viii. 4; John xvii. as touching flesh ; and, in or future. life;

God, it was another

which struggled utterance;

more, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death" (Rev. i. 14-18). If it be objected the Resurrection here, that Paul, writing after and Ascension of our Lord, Immortality"; is Christ's own to His (then as the alone preroga-

for expression it was

of the possession whilst and organic to that

of life on the Father's source of all life, was distinct from and by

part, which, rational superior tures;

His true humanity

(bone of our bone and chief meaning

still speaks of Immortality tive of Deity,-" we reply, teaching to be) truly also,-as

of our flesh), lies their Of the then present

Who only hath so, for such far as it related

possessed Father"

by any of His creatime, was shared claiming was the birth-form for J ehovah Apostolic and ashad Earth, been and of Immortality. of the resurrection,

this sense, they were strictly prophetic as they were true of His fleeting thing-since, separation shown

and which, at that thought, prerogative

they could not be true-save creature

none. Thus, "Living of the Saviour's still the alone

for in God and by God is the life of every living before Christ, there lay the suffering from God (in all. but creature bitter life) as and isolation of death, to be preceded by the actual by the exceeding cry, " My God,

GLORIFIEDHUMANITY:" I live by the Father or independent Divine Father in the latter, its self-existent "Living in Paul's Fath=r." language, I" It is not a separated that He possesses; in both the apart from in the throbs immortality

This claim was equally true age; long after the death, wheu the" preached Gospel throughout

for it is ONE LIFE which and His Human can have and

cension of the Lord Jesus Christ, and at the time of the Kingdom" the Roman asleep in the resurrection) but which

Son; a life which, source

My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me I" Forsaken,-as necessary to His treading the winepress alone. Thus Isaiah wrote: for sin," "Thou "He shalt hath make His soul an offering _and Jesus said:

no existence

exhaustless as applied seeing

multitudes had fallen oertain hope (through immortality possessed to seek, and live for; of God;

sure and of that

Thus there is a special fitness to the Father"-even tbat after the the Man of

which Apostolic lips had urged them was yet alone to Timothy for Paul, writing

poured out His soul unto death" He came" (soul,psuche) Gethsemane's agonising prayers a ransom for many" garden had yet

(liii. 10, 12) ; (1l1att. xx. 28). to witness the

" Who onlv hath Immortality glorification sorrows," of Christ; the" Son of Mary,"

To give His life

had been made a

(1, vi. 17), declares "WHO [GOD] ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY, dwelling in the light which no man. can approach unto." Jehovah had not parted with His Kingly and that One, the Creaare, diamond clearly, but Prerogative. Tnere was still but One Immortal

and bloody sweat of the Sacri-

"PARTAKER OF DIVINE NATURE." Was it not for this blessing that Christ prayed "Glorify Thou Me, with the glory which As" I had Son of and the and now
As

ficial Lamb, Who was to take away the sin of the world: Calvary's Cross had yet to bear its burden of an unresisting agony power cupant, perfect in the should redeem the of sin and Victim, Who in death's a guilty grave. race The from brief the ocnew-hewn of the of the the forthe thus

with Thee before the world was" ? for: Word fulfilled such mortal: "In the beginning

God," Divine Glory had been His from eternity, was the Word, was with God, and the Word was God" the work given Him to do, He

Being in the universe;

tor and Sustainer thereof. These three expressions different facets of a single

of Divine

Sepulchre

had yet to receive its first

(John i. 1): But, having glorified His Father prays for a kindred (" Son "For glory as " Son of Man." He was at that of death:"

Truth; setting forth one and the same unique fact that One Being only-Jehovah-possesses the strictly That personal prerogative of Immortality to men). is He alone (as far as He has revealed He alone" His truth

to treasure the tortured form Man, and witness the uprising resurrection of the" and

first-fruits

of what will ;yet be a glorious harvest, Son of Man," looking unto Christ shame that It is, then, whilst should follow,"

of Man")

time "For

the suffering

lives for ever:"

True Messiah. "glory speaks. that

verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. (Heb. ii. 9, 16): He therefore desired to be made immortal, that, in Resurrection, the Divine and Human might be inseparably the GOD-MAN. " So he that eateth Por long we hesitated Saviour's seeing future) promise" shall that it implies the same Me, even
BY

the "Living Father:" He only" hath Immortality." And, that if any of the highest orders of angelic being possess it (which is not revealed): it can simply be, as promised made" of God." " As the Living Father
I LIVE

ward beyond the suffering Be it remembered

that He was the

united

in and as

to men, by being
"-01'

PROPHE'l' OF THE NEW DISPENSATION, and that, like those therefore, of earlier prophetic; many times of His (Isa. utterances, ix. 6, for expresent of things tense, that

partakers

of Divine Nature

"Sons

HE SHALL LIVE

ME I" all that our

hath sent Me, and

FATHER."

ample), though are strictly should glorious through prize of

couched

in the speaking they

to believe the Divine

BY THE

live by Me," conveys: possession Believer-or Head what Immortality (in the Body of as is thereof.

These words of our Saviour at the time of utterance, His pre-existent Oneness with

were strictly true, His Deity, but the Father;

be, as though truth the that

then 1ve1e. Thus: was about to win,

as touching

" I live by the Father,"

sets forth the grand and of death, the

on the part of the

Christ

Christ,-of now enjoyed of a Malabar

only prophetically true concerning His humanity, yet their chief meaning evidently lies in this latter application to Him as the (to be) Glorified of the human race. Logos" Had or Head and Life-Giver

agony and suffering

by the Saviour-or Christian, engaged

Our feelings much resembled DIVINE nnWRTALITY : God and . translating tongue. the New Testament O-n reaching

is recorded

in the work of into his native of John's

And, as true and very man, live-like by God-for ever.

they been used of Him only as the"

the third chapter

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first Epistle, Father hath be called " Behold, bestowed what manner upon us, that of love the we should down his : Such,

BIBLE
too, is the "When

STANDARD.
joyous testimony of the This faith Son" (v. 11): "To to sit with "And (v. 10); him
Me 'in

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COURTEOUS READER: is your future in Christ that privilege-think that Jesus. fallacious lies before Rise on it. Of the

Apostle John: be like Him" that

He shall appear we shall

the SONS or GOD," he laid instructor "IT IS TOO MUCH! Let me rather

(1 John iii. 2) : " This is the record,

pen, and said to his Christian It is too much! should be permitted joyous ceeding rejoice Yes; tion-lives tality;

glorious

you-through

to its grandeursupposed

GOD'HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, write that we But we though exto and and this life is in His

and live for it. life upon continuance the "First believeth

Cease to rely for your continued immortality,

to KISS HIS FEET." with reverential, by faith, promise,"

were at length enabled, awe, to grasp, great and in realizing-in intensity by the as the human

that overcometh My throne"

will I grant

to be " born of the flesh "; and seek by" patient in well-doing" Resurrection," unto salvation." NOW! AND THEN! Now: A Son of Adam. weary world. The subject and pain. rebel A unit amongst who people worms, A poor toiler in a of sorrow, suffering, the 1,500,000,000 this planet; of going that true immortality of the Spirit, in to "everyone that which comes of the New Birth

even this" measure-

(Rev. iii, 21):

hast made us "He (xxi.

precious

unto our God Kings and Priests" that overcometh shall inherit will be his God, and 2.) Could even the" bear testimony here those ther: conveyed? Sister

some faint Christ-through Father, because

all thirujs ; and I

its rapturous

of holy meaning. resurrecin the glory the first

he shall be My Son" truth

disciple whom Jesus loved" than is to Broor give sweeter comfort

Living

to a more gracious

and beauty of a perfect, so the Christian Son; resurrection

Divine Immor-

will-through

who look for Christ's in Christ:

appearing?

(out of orfrom receive

among the dead) live and ~enjoy the selfbecause,

look up l He comes and Immortality. Living with Father him" The and Who life Son only

by the Living

will not tarry, choicest which takers throbs

Who will bestow upon you God's in the

same glory and beauty Divine Immortality. To attain might attain that first John) says" xx, the 6) such to such

of a perfect,

gift-Divine

down to the grave. THEN: A Son of God. Family, An honoured Head is" No longer The Eternal member King of an unit, Son of

shall also throb in you, who are thus was the earnest by any means. I the Spirit (by hath the Life: "And joint-heirs by the" such of Divine nature, "If hath Immortality." WHAT IS WRITTEN? if children,

made par-

of that Royal

whose

a future

kings and Lord of lords." but ONlIlWITH THE HEAD. the Eternal Father I

desire of the Apostle Paul: resurrection, Blessed forming

unto the resurrection. of the dead," of which and holy is he that the Hierarchy Christ, the with of

then heirs ; heirs of God, and (Rom. viii, 17.) than that here and now! adoption: 15). Here, still shall with whereby in the Mark: enjoyed Now, rea we cry, flesh; Look around of mountain it! blessing by

WHO IS THIS FATHER? upon and this earth, hill, of will its varied valley and scenes plain; oceans. By His smaller others

part in the first resurrection" coming Kingdom; Head, and

(Phil. iii, 11 ; Rev.

with Christ" Body of Christ"

this is a far higher are children

the Body, of which Christ is of the present

upon its lakes and rivers, its seas and He made power it is! ference planets circle of At His it was! of the seven

God, through

"Ye have we have

" For I reckon that the sufferings time are not worthy to be compared

ceived the Spirit Abba, Father" ~change then, however, change of God, and ther, and unto, nature

of adoption, (viii.

This globe of 24,000 miles circumbut that one our sun's system! central

is, however, with it round

THE GLORYWHICH SHALL BE REVEALED in us" (Rom. viii. 18); "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day" (2. Tim. iv. 8); "That I may win I may (Phil. i, in to, resurrection." Christ, and be found in Him t" "That "To die is gain"

of relation-whilst in resurrection, also; joint-heirs of nature

we shall enjoy a be " heirs ; heirs Christ;" That the Fa-

orb-which

would require and that and planets. telescope. view; to the with these also! naked

500 such planets

to make a body

equal to itself in bulk. see yet other

He made these planets,

which has, from eternity which

distinguished

sun I Let your eye scan the heavens suns, each with its attendant these and too! systems. Take start your forth to He made way; " what suns He made new suns Turn

in resurrection

was imparted the human be even us;

and has since distinguished unto us, and distinguish

know Him and 21).

the power of His

(Phil. iii. 8, 9, 10); view of the personal the glO1'y revealed winning gain, after

of the Son, will in the same manner the extent of-Divine

Behold I new heavens to the "milky heaven Father" them

Well might Paul write thus rapturously blessing, the resurrection

imparted tality. Thus: of Law;

Divine nature-to

Irnmor-

and c?:,own reserved for, the in, and the ultimate glorious for him and not

eye appeared "Our

merely a streak of of countless made these, like-

of, the being found Immortality;

as did the Father,

in the Dispensation Believer, Grace, be and

white is now a further and systems. wise, and sustains power. "As he shall unto this. the Living live

death, of the inexpressibly

as could also the Son, in the Dispensaso will also the of Millennial

prize of Divine

tion of Gospel grace; in the Dispensation say -with

by His daily skill and

only, but for all them, also, who look and long for Christ's appearing. Such also was the sublime of the Apostle Peter: us exceeding by these ye might teaching and hope that

enabled to lift up his hand unto the heavens perfect truth"I LIVE FOR BVER! "

Father

hath sent eateth

Me, and I Me, even

live by the Father: toys and baubles. Cry" "What Sinner:" "Believe

so he that Subordinate shall

"Whereby be partaker

are given unto promises: born and of the DIVINE again, not by the for of abideth and grace grace death"

by Me."

Lay down your earthly all 0Yher interests to me a

great and precious

All glory to the Father, designed such through

Who of His great love immortality the for men. of of Holy

God be merciful

NATURE" (2 Pet. i. 4): "Being of corruptible Word ever" God, man's the of God, which liveth

All glory to the Son, Who of His great love and purchased such "suffering to the immortality for every member All glory

I do to be saved?" Jesus Christ, and thou

seed, but of incorruptible, No grander animated

And give prompt shalt be saved:"

and good heed to the response that you may become the

on the Lord

(1 Pet. i. 2, 3). than this which

hope can be the ex-fisherof the glorious in and by

His Body the Church.

found in the annals breast-to Lord Jesus

of men

or the promises a" partaker same

Spirit, Who of His great love and grace imparts to us here that germ of life which shall produce such immortality the Father, in us hereafter. of that All glory to to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit ; family of whom !

IMMORTALSON OF SUCH A FATHERI For to such, and such only, is such a priceless blessing vouchsafed. Malvern. [Separately Published. Editor. See Advertisement.]

be made Christ,

Divine nature," manner

or to live eternally in the

and iet every member

as He lives in and by the Father.

Christ is the Head, respond-Amen

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are now prepared to examine a wellknown, but somewhat misunderstood, passage, from 1 Peter iii. 18-20, which is thought to prove that the spirits of the dead were confined in a prison under the earth, and that they are possessed of the powers of sense, yet destitute of the organs; for on the strength of the language used, it is said that Christ in the spirit after death went and preached to those spirits of the Antediluvians. Now, even supposing that the immaterial spirit (pneuma, breath of life,) was capable of perceptibility apart from the organs of sense, can any sound reason be given why these particular spirits, of whom such special mention is made, should have been thus favored above all other spirits up to the period of the Crucifixion? I think not. At any rate, if the reader will be careful not to isolate any portion, but read the entire passage, to the end of verse 20, the meaning will be found to differ from the generally received opinion, and to harmonise with the rest of the Word on the subject. Bishop Leighton has ably explained the text, and his explanation I here give in an abbreviated form. He states that there are two points for consideration, apart from the application that follows in verse 21, 22. (1) An assertion concerning the preaching of Christ, and the objects He preached to. (2) A description of the period or age wherein that preaching occurred, and the particular way of God's dealing with the people of that age. These two points taken together state, "By which spirit He (Christ) went and preached to the spirits in prison (mark, not' that wel'e in prison'), whi~h sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the Ark was a preparing, wherein few,that is, eight souls were saved by water." This same Apostle (1 Pet. i. 10, 11,) declares " The Spirit of Christ" to have testified beforehand, through" the prophets," of "the sufferings of Christ, and the glorythat should follow." Now Noah was a preacher of righteousness (2 Pet. ii. 5), and received from God the power of the Spirit prophetically to warn the disobedient of the impending flood (Gen. vi). But .inasmuch as the Second Person is, and always has been the manifested activity of the Godhead, and source of all ministry, it was the Spirit of Him, foreknown as the Christ, that spoke in Noah-just as He spokeby the prophets afterwards-the words of righteous warning concerning judgment at hand. Moreover, we read that this same Spirit had been before striving in testimony with these disobedient ones (Gen. vi. 3), which was brought to a close with that of Noah.

In regard to the persons preached to, there are two things by which they are characterised. Their present condition when the Apostle was writing,-" spirits in prison; " and their former condition when the Spirit of Christ in Noah was preaching to them,-" sometime disobedient." The latter was first in time. The Greek word translated "sometime disobedient," is aWHIif}O'aO'L, they were not persuaded" when in " the flesh, therefore are they now "spirits in prison." It was to their spirits, then, as their mental state resulting from certain action on the organs of sense, that the words of warning were addressed by the Spirit of Christ "when once the long-suffering of God waited in the

Hence, they will stand and be judged as men at the tribunal of Jesus Christ. (Jude v. 7.) "Here the sin of the angels and their punishment comes into question principally. Their sin was that being angels, (not the angels,) they kept not their principality or government. The angels in question left, finally and for ever, the heaven which God had assigned them as their abode, to live like men upon earth. They lived like men, they sufferedin the judgment on men, swept off by the flood and dying, entered on their punishment. They are coupled with Sodom and Gomorrha, and add a new feature to their sin, unrestrained fornication, joining themselves to beings of another order. "We have twice found the history of these days of Noah." angels connected with Noahs time (see Gen. vi. The spirits of those men are now" in prison " 4; Job xxxviii. 4-7; i. 6-21). (</>VAWC1j), a place of ward (see Matt. xiv. 10, " The same doctrine of these angels' fall gives xviii. 30), in the safe keeping of God, where the much light to various passages of the Proverbs spirits of all other men are who have died which warn against the seductions of evil (Eccles. xii. 7), to be re-joined to their bodies respectively at the resurrection. Let now the women (ii. 16-18; ix. 18; vii. 26, 27; xxi. Hi). words of the Lord Jesus and of Stephen, at It also explains Job xxvi. 5, 6, which should be their respective deaths, be remembered, when rendered 'the giants groan beneath the waters, the former commended His Spirit to the safe and the inhabitants thereof.' It expounds, also, keeping of the Father, and the latter to that of that passage 1 Cor. xi. 10. It expounds also the risen Lord, when the true meaning of the what is said of Messiah in Psalm Ixxxviii.4-12. " They will be judged in the bodies of men, passage, as above explained, can hardly fail to be admitted.-By request, from "Truth and as they voluntarily took them, just as Satan was judged in the body of the serpent." Tradition," pp. 38-40. [Whilst quite in sympathy with this writer's A Correspondent (Geo. W. Barber, Nottingidea that angels and not men are here referred ham) writes, concerning the above subject:to, we are certainly at a loss to know how they I confidentlyrecommend to your readers a fourcould be preached to when dead! Since the penny tract by R. Govett, dated 1850. It is writer quoted expressly says, they pe1'ished at very argumentative. It gives the various views tlie flood. How they could be alive in Tartarus, entertained by others, showing their fallacy; seeing that they perished in the flood, passes and also gives what he believes to be the true our comprehension. Say that they were banished interpretation, and what, I think, cannot be to Tartarus at the flood, and werethere preached overthrown. I give a few extracts :to by Christ after His resurrection, and the " It speaks of spirits, not men, of spirits not whole thing is clear.-ED. B.S,] preached to while alive, nor by a man in the flesh, but disobedient to God's commands till THE RESURRECTION & THE LIFE. death, cast into a place of punishment, there PART V. preached to by Jesus, &c. By MARIA GELLETLY. "The case is presented as mysterious and exceptive: This is apparent in the expression A GAIN look at Job: "I go," he says, "whence (lost in our translation) 'even to the spirits in 11. Ishall not return, even to the land of darkprison,' also see chap. iv. 6, 'even to the dead,' ness and the shadowof death, 1.1 land of darkness (in this last text the New Version has the word as darkness itself, and where the light is as dark, even' added.) This is very significant, and ness" (x, 21,22). That is, though light shine more apparent by referring to Luke xii. 7; Matt. it wouldmeet with no reciprocal glance. Here Job speaks of "I" going to this land of darkviii. 27 ; Acts v. 39 ; x. 45; xi. 18. "Suppose that the spirits to whomJesus went ness. But if "l's" body only goes, "I" goes ,were angels, who deserted their post to live with to live with God where there is no darkness, but men, and thus offended God, and, perishing at where darkness is light. Job goes on to say, the flood, were confined in 1.1 place of punish- "Man lieth down, and riseth not; till the ment called Tartarus, and that they, are in heavens be no more, they shall not awakenor be chains and darkness; they received death as a raised out of their sleep" (Job xiv. 12). Job part of the penalty due to the sinners of men, seems here to console himself that he shall come God accounted them as men in this penalty: back to life again after the heavens be no more; He might so account them as subjects of mercy. till then, he says, man shall not awake, nor be

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raised out of his sleep. There can be no mistake of the man belongs to the spiritual, here that Job believed in a resurrection in the then the being Job next asleep and the final all and truth to be in and if the spiritual part have not its dwelling in the dust, why bid it awake and sing, if it has never ceased to have the power to sing; if the singing part is in heaven, and only the body in the grave or dust, should it not rather be, Awake and join thy spirit singing in heaven? Daniel xii. 2, " And many that sleep in the dust shall awake, some to everlasting here three states of existence, life." Notice unmistakably a immortality dead, not in the dead body and living soul, but awaking; searchers, "If seems, moment like which will follow the holiness as a and the suffering the consequence the failure to fall in with Suffering in its proper place

which will follow scheme. is the will

a state of conexclaims, Mark, Job does

sternation

and anxiety,

of God, and Christ used it both for

man die shall he live again?" state?" meaning, but, "Shall

and His followers to produce the best

not say, "If a man die shall he live on in another a man live again," plainly tbat which was, is not, and is again. again, he must have believed

referred to, a state of existence previous to sleep, for no one could be said to sleep or die who had not lived; a state of non-existence previous to awaking, for no one could be said to awake who had never slept; Fever lost,-that in another form. Hosea xiii, 14, "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; death." I will redeem them from the whole the bodies No one can read this verse and not be not" a state of life after the sleeping, is to say, if they possessed it for no one could be said to get back what they

But our view of this subject has been fully exhibited. complished The great good which has been acin this plan of God has made the accompanied it, a matter

And if Job believed he would die or sleep, and live or wake in a resurrection of the dead. Again in the 19th very

evil, which necessarily

chap., verses 25 and 26, Job seems to re-grasp this grand chain of hope, and exclaims-his malady the mirror realised-" earth: in which he saw his hopes

of small moment, when compared, as St. Paul expresses it, with "the glory that shall be re. vealed." We must look at the subject, as a whole, to judge of the merits or demerits of any single feature. Those who think that nothing can be the will of God which exhibits severity, have not, as our premises required, formed their estimate of God from From the garden His general government. downward', He has from Red of Eden

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and

that He shall stand at the latter day upon the and though after my skin worms destroy that is, One who is able death this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." Notice, "my Redeemer," Also, in Psalm to bring me again from death to life. vi. 5, it is said, "In of Thee: there is no remembrance in the grave

struck with the fact that the man, being is included in the "them," of them I will ransom,"" I will redeem." If" them"

exhibited the Sfl,vere as well as the benevolent side of His character. .Eden-the Sea-the the earth's Dathan, Flood-the of the overwhelming The banishment plagues Egyptians in the of Egypt-the

but them I will ransom, were already in and if the

iho shall give Thee thanks?"

Now, if by death

heaven, it would only be common sense to say, the bodies of them I will ransom; seeing it never could die. (To be continued.) spirit is yonder, it needed not to be ransomed,

I am released from my body, and it be hidden among the clay, and I, a child of God, why then, it shall be all remembrance all thanks to God. of God; it shall be does David here of life between (Psalm from which, again, Neither

overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrahopening and swallowing up Korah, and Abiram, and the two hundred and plague thousand which followed, seven hundred overthrow when

fifty who consorted with them in offering strange fire to the Lord-the destroying fourteen who murmured judgments and famines prove that against

give any hope in a continuance death and the resurrection; xxxL 5). Psalm xlix.;

David says," Thou hast redeemed me"

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY. PART VII.

By
SARAH MAGRUDER, VIRGINIA, D.S.A.

Moses-the the

of the nations which fought against Israel-the of God upon Israelites, they have sinned-and the plagues, pestilences, the earth,

notice, in verse 15, the soul is Now, if already received by

said to be brought back from the grave, and to be received by God. God, at death, how could death be said to be overcome by God, and that which death held in bondage get free, if never in bondage at all 7 Isaiah victory." xxv. 8, "He will swallow up death in that" He" here will All will understand

would he would find IFour Reviewer also beconsider,charged, though that he may thus falsely. He says, according to our view, " that would not be subject May it not be said after death." but for Christ the sinner to suffering

which have devastated

God is severe in His judgments,The part of wisdom is and by faithful to gain His His purposes,

if great in His mercy. to fall in with

by the same process of reasoning, and in view of the orthodox system, that but for God the for he could not and thus sinner would not be damned: God might

obedience to His commandments, favour.

used, is the Lord of life, and He says, "I swallow up death in victory." thoughtfully up-which

be lost, if he had never been made; the omission to make him.

Our Reviewer wishes to know, if man is not inherently cannot immortal (he sees no objection to his to nothingness same reason,' But our at once." that the if he were Reviewer being punished to any degree, if he is), why he the

Now, just look

have saved him from being lost by on

in the face of this grand assertion, clearly means death, which has for a

How could it be said death would be swallowed time had power over life or living men, will utterly be destroyed, man released from its grasp, and no trace of its ghastly ravages remain-if never had destroyed life? been indestructible, it never h'ad power over the real life of man, if it Had the life of man it could not be said to be

In fact, much of the misunderstanding of the cause of Christ's belief on this "We proper relation mission.

be "consigned For

this subject has arisen from a misapprehension The article from which we quote has expressed the popular subject, in the following words: any longer to discern a between that atoning death and for what was required, it from the urrath. to of the nature, by fail, in truth,

We reply: punishment "inherently

should not be omitted immortal."

may answer his own question.

He says, "It is

this dread fact, which continues stamped on the pages of the Bible after ingenious criticism and subtilising theories have done their utmost, that the law of Divine retribution ment of moral character, who persist in sinning in the developthat those and who must work itself out against light

the end to be effected:

conquered by death, when death only destroyed that which was to life what one's clothes are to the body. was burned, Surely no one would say my body when only the clothes on the body

appears, was not redemption come, but the reconstruction imparting tality." founding mentioned. the formation Now a mistake a consequence,

to it the foreign element of immoris here made in conwith the purpose.

hereafter without check or mitigation,

were burned, and my body escaped untouched. Isaiah xxvL 19, "Awake and sing, ye that

reject the Gospel when it is offered, must endure the irrevocable consequences (p. 63). of their acts, recoilWe could not more ing on themselves"

Christ did not come for either of the purposes He came to carry out a scheme for of holiness in character: "to

sleep in the dust." to the thinking

Does this verse not indicate

mind that the singing part of

pointedly answer our objector's question.

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the nark picture of the doomed. but the tenninaSMA.LL Baptist Church on the banks of the Mersey, has been showing to its] pastor death." How long the period of suffering may_ anything but" the quality of 7nC1CY." be before that termination is reached, none can On a Sunday in March he intimated from the pulpit his intention to preach on the three tell. It is four times spoken of in the Apocalypse Sunday mornings on the subject of (Rev. ii. 11; xx. 6, 14; xxi. 8). When this following Punishment." " Eternal This intimation stirred shall have done its work, then shall the belief a hornet's nest among his deacons, who at once expressed by our Reoieuier in the beginning of prepared for the good minister a presenb punishment to show him that if they could thus deal his article, be realized, viz.: "That good will with their pastor whom they loved (?), they were finally conquer the forces of evil," adding" this not likely to forego the pleasure of eternally (?) satisfaction the is doubted by no one, least of all by believers in regarding with Christian punishment of those they did not love. the truth of Christianity." (p. 56.) They therefore waited upon him on the folBut we will consult our Reviewer as to his lowing week to bold a court of inquisition upon him. He told them frankly that his views were understanding of the condition of the lost-as changed, concerning the old creed, and that he he affirms himself an orthodox believer. He no longer believed in the" eternal torment" of says: "But the suggestion readily occurs, that sinners. They then forbade his intended course ~smmOOL evil natures, when placed under invincible He did, however, touch on the subject the restraint, and beat upon by the storm of retrifollowing Sunday morning, speaking from the butive vengeance may have a tendency to wear words" God is love." If such was the character of the Being worshipped, it was not. that of those themselves out, and sink, if not into nonentity, worshipping. A Special Church meeting was iuto insensibility aud permanent unconsciouscalled" to consider urgent affairs concerning the ness." In this condition why should it become pastorate." At that meeting it was proposed a question of importance whetfter they are im- that the pastor should be heard and judged by the whole Church, but it found no support. A mortal or not? resolution was instead put" that he had departed Union.''' In this view of the case we cannot but see from the Articles of the 'Baptist This resolution was carried, and he was then that the continued existence of the sinner and there without notice dismissed from his would become no longer a punishment to him, pastorate, and not allowed to ascend the pulpit but would make him a blot in the universe to again. The following is a summary of the speeches made by some of this enlightened (?) mar its beauty to others : as leaving a dead man community, at the Meeting on March 16th. about a house would be no inconvenience to (1) "I have heard too much of these views tion we are led to hope

REFLECTIONS.

A PASTOR

watch'd the death-bed of a dying darling boy, And tried to cheat his mem'ry with curious costly toy But thinking 'twaa a duty, he spoke in whisper'd breath, And told the Sunday scholar how very near was death.

He put a pastor's question, with Bible in his hand, But one not there recorded, about some far-off land: He pictur'd fancied glories before the glazing eye, And ask'd with pious fervour, Now, don't you wish to die? "
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The boy look'd t'ward the window. and saw the hills he'd c1imb'd, He heard the church bell chiming, and started as it chim'd! He saw a weeping mother, and heav'd a deep-drawn sigh, And said with boyish candour, I do not wish to die."
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The pastor heard the answer his truthful nature gave, And mus'd, There must be something repulsive in the grave; Our prorer nature shuns it,-but why, why should this be? If death s the gate to glory !-How comes the mystery 1
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H We've taught our Sunday scholars, the moment that they die, They go to be more happy with angels in the sky; It seems they don't believe us, altho' they think they do! But whose the fault ?-their nature's !-or is our doctrine true? "

The pastor check'd his doubtings, and further went his round, To seek the sick and needy, who always may be found! A sense of duty nerved him to risk infection's blight, And soon he found before him a wretched woman's plight Relieving wants first pressing, he spoke next of her soul' And begg'd her to consider what possibly its goal i In hope to force repentance, he touch'd the sinner's doom, And hinted pain eternal beyond the yawning tomb!
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With dismal eyes uplifted, she cried, with piercing look, I've borne too much already to think that'8 in the Book! " Then with a piteous effort, she asked, with gloaming stare, "Would you., kind sir, requite me, with endless torment there? " The pastor gave no answer, for pity filled his To see a soul so wretched, and he himself so He felt he could not doom her to endless pain And fear'd the just reflection-so turn'd away breast, blest: and woeto go.

him, but a source healthy

of great

annoyance

to the as

inmates of the house. perhaps

But our Reviewer be granted

adds, "So much might allowable conjecture." We do not rely upon" " Death and hell shall fire" "that He might

conjecture,"

hut upon that

already. I have many friends, whom I value very much, that hold them, but if an angel told me that he held them I would refuse his teaching. And as Mr. -so decidedly expressed his opinions on the subject last Sunday morning, if he had preached the sermons we forbad, I could not enter the chapel again whilst he remained." (2) "I could not think of giving any of my money to support a minister who holds such views as Mr. --. For J do not believe that he is a man Bent from God. And as he has departed from the Articles of tbe 'Baptist Union,' with which this Chapel is connected, he cannot be allowed to preach another sermon here." (3) "M1'. - has been very successful during his pastorate here, and I must say that I _have received much benefit under his ministry, for I was converted under his preaching; bnt now that he has changed his views, I think that he ought not to be allowed to preach here any longer. A's well let an atheist go into the pulpit to preach his opinions, as to allow him to do so." The above report of proceedings comes to us from an independent and reliable source. It is but just to the pastor to say we have, as yet, had no communication from him, As to the Articles of the" Baptist Union," we have no knowledge what they are, but this we do know that there are Churches connected therewith holding and propagating these views, wbose right to do so has never been questioned therel.y ; and we judge therefore tha.t the" Baptist Union" wus used merely us an excuse, to enable the bigotrv of local creed-mongers to work its an ti-Ohrrstian will. Thus to remove a min ist er without due and courteous notice, is to trample Christian principle and feeling under foot. We shall be happy to put any, larger-minded, Church into communication with our wronged and suffering Christian Brother, Editor,

the Divine Word which says, furthermore,

be cast into the lake of him that batb the

Is mortal man more just, then, or does he pity more, Than He whom men and angels, as God of love, adore? I cannot, should not, think it-there's deeper mystery hereOh! Lord, mine eyes now open, these mists and doubtings clear. So thinking, doubting, praying, he slowlr went his way, To ponder o'er the lessons, and visits, 0 the day: A suff'rers casual question, Is that, Sir, in the Book? " Had started new reflections, deciding him to look.
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(Rev. xx. 14), and it is added (Rev. ii. 14)

destroy So that we the devil,

power of death, that is, the devil." look forward corrigibly wicked, death, hell, and

to the happy period when the inwhen the promise in Rev.

shall be no more: xxi. shall be fulfilled, death,

Next day, by note invited, the pastor went to see A brother by profession, long in the ministry, Who wanted duty" taken, because of taking cold, And ., fear'd there might be danger, as he was growing old! "
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" There shall be no more neither shall for the former things

neither sorrow, nor crying,

Well, now, thought he, the riddle will quickly be resolv'd, In part, or altogether, my doubtings be dissolv'd i An aged, weary pilgrim, profess'nal man of God, Will long to be with Jesus, nor fear the cold green sod. He found the" pilgrim" seated in richly-cushioned chair Not seeming quite so ill, he thought, but with an anxious air; The businessflrst was settled,-the parish news next told,Till, etiquette ignoring, the visitor grew bold. He ask'd, was it not cheering, for one whose hairs were hoar, To stand so near the gateway of glory evermore? The happy prospect nearing, to shuffle off this coil," Which weighs the "soul >, with matter, and brings such care and toil.
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there be any more pam: are passed away." (Our opponents to the existence argument, stitution, term

are pleased to escape the idea of being by appropriating meaning "conscious then, by subIf we, for the sake of

of any final extinction death-the in misery." accept

the definition,

read Rev. xxi. 4, and it is," There

shall be no more conscious existence in misery! " Amen, we say, but what do they respond? ) (To be continued.)

His sons had come to honour, his work was well-nigh donej What was there now to keep him below this planet's sun 1But here a nervous movement bet ray'd t..e good man's fear Of oiug, yet, to heaven-preferring staying here! His dear old lady saw it, but vainly sought to hide The instincts of true nature when shrewdly she replied; The medical adviser forbids his friends to speak On any gloomJl subject, because his nerves are weak! "
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The pastor, disappointed, sought, therefore, to retrace His footsteps, meditating on what had taken place; Why many pious persons more dread of heaven reveal, Than other careless sinners of going down to hell ?

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Another pray'r ascended, for spiritual light, To know man's real nature and destiny aright; The answer was forthcoming. the light was on its way; But first a dawning glimmer before the light of day! Next ev'ning a procession came wending up the hill, . Towards the parish churchyard, while all was bright, but chill ; A slow and mournful tolling kept startling all the air, To tell how death was marring a scene so calm and fair! The bell sank into silence more gladd'ning notes to hear, Which floated down the hill-side, in hopeful accents clear; Words oft before repeated assum'd new life and pow'r, Which now reveal'd the myst'ry in sad and solemn hour. I am the RESURRRCTION/' said Jesus, 11 and the LIFB: 11 The echoes of THE LOGos" woke, with wondrous import rife! Thro' understanding utt'rance they now were spirit-words, Which flutter'd in the yew trees, like happy, living birds!
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in the second death. They will miss the heavenly portion, and the Millennium, may be, but will find tbeir lives again on the new earth' after the judgment of the great whi~e throne; for, does it not appear that there WIll be two classes of 'dead' there? ' Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.' (In vel'. 12 it is, The books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.')" We have little more to do thau to assent to your conclusions. May not, however, Matt. xxv. 1 to 13, be a picture of the professed Church apart altogetber from the" Body of Christ?" This latter forms the first-fruits or Bride. The sleeping virgins are the invited guests. Five have the oil of grace-the indwelling spirit-these, though not of the Bride, enjoy Millennial Blessedness: not of the Bride, because not watching (they slept), but having the oil of grace are admitted as guests. The .remaining five, thouzh professing, and purporting to enter as guests, ~re yet excluded from Millennial Blessedness-not for sleeping, since the others did that-but because deficient in the oil of grace our lamps are going out "-;-because not fully indwelt by the Holy Spirit, We merely offer this as a possible explanation, b~t, if correct these are not excluded from LIfe Eternal i~ the Second Resurrection. Unlike the world, they will not perish in the" Second Death."

He that believeth Yes ORAD,"not laidHe," he alone, 11 again," When resurrection

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in Me, alrho' he now were dead "gone to heaven," but low in HADES"
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the promise,

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on earth

clothes him amongst immortal men!

The preacher's pray'rs were answer'd, the light had come at last; It came in words familiar, like mem'ries of the past! Death now was seen as real-all nature telling this While Resurrection" shows us the Way}' to " Life " and bliss! The sun at length descended beneath the western sea; But flashing tints now promis'd how bright the mcrn would be! It brac'd one weary mortal to meet approaching night, And whisper'd coming glory, for " eventide was light! "
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The preacher's manner alter'd, more earnest grew his tone; He saw men surely dying," and 11 Life in Christ alone! 11 JESUSand RESURRECTION/'the good news now became; Goo's COMING SON, and KINGDOM,"and LIFE in His great NAME! " The Gospel came with power, as in the days of old; Tho' persecution follow'd, which need not now be told: But Conscience gav",;approval, the Spirit, and the Word; Believers being added unto a GRACIOUS Lord! Black,burn. Alber! SmW . [May be had separately as a four-page letter leaflet. IS. per lOO, post-free from the Author, or the Office of this Paper.]
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QUESTION COLUMN.
INFANT IMMORTALITY. B.L. (Skip ton) asks :-" Is there any hope of Immortality found in God's Word for infants whose parents are Believers in the Christ? I have just lost a little one of seven months, and I feel deeply interested iu this question." 'I'here is no direct evidence upon this question. Nature's voice is strong and clear, as speaking through our natural emotions, but the Word does not supply us with any authoritative teaching. Dogmatise we cannot, as we have not a " Thus saith the Lord; " but yet we are not left without inferential teaching which is sufficient to warrant and enkindle hope. We summarise thus :(1.) Man was created in the Moral and Governmental image of God. His Fall, though defiling, did not destroy that image. Man remained, as before, earth's Lord; the rational head of -arthly Creature-Life; a morally conscious and Accountable Being; and tbe subject of the Divine Grace and Favour. In Gen. v. 3, we read "And Adam lived 130 years, and begat ,. son in his own likeness, after his image." 'I'he infant Seth, at birth, was after his father's image--who was a moral and accountable being -und was, therefore, also a moral, accountable being, or candidate for immortality from birth. (2.) In establishing the national rite of circumcision (Gen. xvii. 10-14), which separated His people from the surrounding nations, God included infants from eight days old. Since God includes, who shall exclude? If included in the National Israel, why not, also, in the Spiritual Israel? (a.) Though Israel, all from twenty years upwards save two, perished in the wilderness, the children were specially reserved to enjoy a blessing denied to their parents (Gen.

xiv. 29-34). May it not also be so in resurrection, that whilst many sinful parents suffer the "second death," the children attain unto " eternal life?" (4.) Da vid encouraged himself in tbe hope that though, for his sin, his child was removed from him, yet that it would be restored in resurrection (2 Sam. xii. 22, 23). Thus, too. may others hope. (5.) Whilst Jer. xxxi. 15-17 clearly refers to the restoration of Judah and Israel in the latter days, it as clearly includes the resurrection of their sleeping dead. Matt. iii. 16-18, applies this promise to the infant life slain at Bethlehem; If the infants of Judah return from the grave, why not also those of Christendom? (6.) In 1 Cor. xv. 22, we read, " For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Here we have resurrection as wide as the Fall. Since infants died in Adam (" all ") they rise to life in Christ (" all "). Having a renewed life-with no previous probation-what shall hinder the offer and opportunity of " eternal life ? " The Judge of "quick and dead" was onc A Himself an infant. (7.) We group a few further gleams of light and hope. "Become as little children" (Matt. xviii. 3); "WhoBo shall receive one such little child in My name" (vel'. 5) ; "In heaven their angels do al ways behold the face of My Father which is in heaven" (vel'. 10); "Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little onts should perish" (vel'. 14); "Suffer little children, and forhid tbem not, to come unto Me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven (xix. 14); For the promise is unto you and to your children (Acts ii. 38, 39); Else were your children unclean; but now art they holy" (1 Cor. vii. 14). We certainly think we have here no mean body of inferential evidence to confirm our natural emotions, and to encourage us in the hope of a resurrection of infant life. We have no ground of expectation that such can ever form any part of the" Body of Christ," 01''' Sons of God," such honour being confined to the" overoomers" of this life: but short of this there is hope of immortality and bliss for the blossom that early fell, as well as for the ripened fruit that will form part of the "great multitude which no man can number." GRACE THE EARNEST OF GLORY. E.G.B. (London, N.) writes :-'" Grace for grace' (John L 16), Does this refer to the , heavenly calling?' It seems something special! So few apprehend what is involved in being 'partakers of the heavenly calling,' or know , the truth as it is in Jesus' (Eph. iv.). They only seem to know, as John Baptist preached (John i. 29; Matt. iii.}, We should apply it as suggested. Grace now as the earnest or promise of grace further and fuller hereafter. If asked, 'What further and fuller grace?' we should reply, Of 'power to become the Sons of God.' Born" not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Truly very few apprehend" the glory that shall follow." We have endeavoured in our opening article of this number "to woo to sweefer worlds" of hope and faith. WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS. Further :-" In considering this subject, I have been struck with the connection between Luke xi. 13, and Rom, viii. 9. And the question arises-Will those whose belief thus consists in scarcely more than a mere assent to a historical fact, be amongst the left (Matt. xxv. 11,12) when the Lord gathers His own people to Himseh? They have not the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (' uo oil in their vessels witb their lamps ') so are 'none of His' (Rom. viii. 9), 'I know you not: And then, again, they-these foolish virgins-did believe (as men believe any fact) because they , went to buy!' In the light of Rom, x. I cannot think that they will perish.

NOTES, NEWS, AND REVIEWS.

t::5'" Hell. By G. G. Macleod, Free Church Minister, 0arnwath. Dublin: Dublin Tract Society, 10, D'olier Street. Price id." We blush that any minister could write such a tract, and that any respectable Publi~hing Society, such as the" Dublin," could lend ~t~plf to give currency to such savage absurdities, Mark the author's conception of God:"The reign of iron lasts still! Tbe same God-who hurled oceans over Alps and Andes, drowning a world, and scorched Sodom to cinders in hurricane of fire, and choked the streets of Jericho with corpses, and threw the Roman dogs on Jerusalem, to tear it limb from limb until, in wild struggle of darkness and fire, a nation found its grave-reigns still! The same God who cursed Cain, and sent remorse upon Esau, and dug a grave for Korah, flung Jezebel to the dogs, and slew Belshazzar at his own banquet-table, and hurried Judas to a suicide's eternity-reigns still, unchanged for ever; and what He has done before He can do again."

One shudders at the writer's seeming joy in regarding such exceptional actions of the Deity as an indication of His general character. Still, be it remembered, that this-terrible as it is-is not one tenth as terrible as the popular hell, to which it lends no countenance. Death, sudden and lasting, was here the punishment from God on sin that cried to heaven. Not life in torment. Mark the author's acquaintance with "Conditional Immortality :"-" The more popular theory of this age is Annihilationism; that is, I die like my dog.' I die a sinner, and [ am nowhere ever after. The coffin that holds my body is the grave of my soul, and, of course, punisbment of any kind in eternity is an impossibility, as there is nobody nowhere to suffer it! Now this theory denies the immortality of the soul, which I shall some day have the pleasure of proving beyond the possibility of doubt, to anyone who can listen to reason, and revelation, and history, and common sense. When my body dies, my soul dies! What! Tben there is not a saint in heaven! though John saw armies of these following Jesus on white horses. Moses and Elias are not, though they came from heaven to talk with Jesus-

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children of those in fellowship, so that they may not imbibe the pernicious doctrines taught amongst the sects."-J.C.A. B.l.cup.-Gospel Mission, Co-operative Hall.This busy town of 25,OUOpeople, at the head of the Grassendale Valley, some seven miles from Rochdale and twenty-two from Manchester, has long possessed a devoted centre of work and witness for the" Life." The Church here (Bap. tist in principle) was founded by the late Rev. Jonas Smith, after his exclusion from Ebenezer Baptist Church, and has throughout met in the Assembly Room of the Co- operative Stores-a noble room seated for 1,000 people. At the decease of Mr. Smith, the Rev. Thos. Vasey, formerly of Bridgnorth, was invited to succeed him, which he did in Feb., 1881. The Church of 80 members has now borne harmonious witness for eight years to the Scriptural doctrines of the Life and Ad vent, and though isolated from communion with other Churches in the town, has maintained its teaching and its independence. To-day, as before, it continues to enjoy peace, love, and unity. On March 21i, 26, Special Services were held to celebrate the Pastor's Anniversary, following two special sermons which had been delivered on the 12th, by Mr. W. H. Miller, of Liverpool, to pleased and profited audiences. The Church was favoured by the presence and advocacy of Capts. H. J. Ward and J. E. Dutton, of Liverpool, whose visit will not readily be forgotten, or the two sunny addresses-given by them at the Saturday meeting. The Service of the following morning .was taken by Capt. Dutton, who gave a powerful address on ,; The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you," accompanying his remarks with solos and hymns, both instrumental and vocal. This was followed by an afternoon address to the Sunday-school, also interspersed with music and song; and crowned by the evening meeting, to which the reputation of the visitors had brought a large audience. Capt. Dutton gave a telling exposition of Christ's casting out the evil spirits from the man dwelling amongst the tombs. Capt. Ward followed with an address on Jer, ix. 23, 24. And the service was closed with an earnest Gospel address by Capt. Dutton. Thus ended one of the happiest series of gather. ings ever held in Bacup, On the Tuesday following, five candidates were immersed by the pastor, some of whom had been for months waiting this opportunity, including one in memo bership with the Church at Cheltenham, but resident near here.-T. V. (Abridged.) COLONIAL. CANADA..-Toronto.-" I am pleased .to intimate that a few of the Brethren have agreed to form the nucleus of a Branch of the <Conditional Immortality Association' in Toronto, namely, Pastor WiIliam Brookman, Thomas C. Thomson, G. Brown, G. H. Hill, and James Lesslie; each reckon as paying $1 25 cents., or fi ve shillings sterling. My name, although already enrolled as a member of the parent Association, I wish also to be enrolled as one of that now founded here, The truth is gradually gaining ground here as well as elsewhere, but there are many adversaries in high places. Well may believers nnite in prayer to God our Saviour; for the formidable impediments to free Biblical Interpretation, and, therefore, to the spread of Bible Truths, are the stereotyped creeds of Churches-the' teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.' I hope the Association is increasing in strength, and the Rainbow and Bible Standard in numbers and power."-James Lesslie, QUEENSLAND.-Bundaberg.-" I have pleasure in enclosing P.O.O. for one pound for our Subscriptions. You must have wondered at not hearing sooner. It is not because I have been idle in tbe good cause, but I find it uphill work, and my success has not been great-attributable

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