1877_Advent Christian Times (Barbour-Russell).pdf

' illat if one died for all, then were (not referring hortation :oo plain to be misunderstood. But

I,o second death) all dead?" Again Paul says the idea s+:ems to get into some minds t.hat the

in Heb. 9: 27, bL and as it is appointed (not as Bible is a book of mysteries, and cannot be un-

i.t is going bo be appointed, but is) unto mall derstood by "common people;" that it has a

once to die, and after this the judgment." We cispiritual meaninan and that which appears on

read there is a death after the judgment, and it the face of it is not its true meaning. That is a

is called a death tor, or on account of, sin, and mistaker~idea: for, instead, the Bible purports t,o

is also called the second death. Question-What be God's -.<illrevealed to man, all5 if it is some-

caused the first death? Paul positively says that thing reve:.iied it carlnot be sometlling myste-

inan's transgression caused death, and Paul pas- rious, for t.!~cyare opposites; and that he designed

itively says all sinned in Adam. 1 it to be understood is evident, for he says, that

Again, What is the penalty of sin? as we have bL the things that are revealed belong unto us a~~d

positively proved that Adam sinned, and that all to our children forever (Deut. 29: 29).

t,he race sinned in Adam. God says the penalty The Lord has given uj an infallable rule by

c:f sin is death. Paul says in Gal. 3: 13, " Christ which to ir:terpret his wo:.d, and that is the way

hat11 redee.med us from the curse of the law. the prophecies and promises have been fulfilled

Again, in Gal. 4: 4, Paul says, " When the full- as recorded in the book itself and also in history.

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CONTENTS.

Where is the Means ?. .......................

Points ...............................

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TheRaging Elements.

SeDulchralCuriosilies.. ......................

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~liurchNews..

Contributed Artieles :

Redemution. P. Holler. ...................

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The Bible-No 3. J. Ridley..

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Separation. Mrs. C. Case.

Mr. Baxter's Antichrist J. E. Clark..

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"Disobediint to P~rants." J. P. &Iarquand.

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Camoaisn Paoer. A. A. .................

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Bible Investigation. C D. W. Scott. .......

Comfort in Affliction. D. S. Morris. .........

Miseellaneot~s :

d Lit:le While (poetry). ......................

Heart Breatnings (poetry). ...................

The Sermon.. ...............................

Reports. ....................................

ness of time came God sent forth his Son made I Concerr~in~

his first advent the prophet said

of a woman, made under the law, to redeam them that he should be born in Bethlehem (Mich. 5: 2)

timt are under the law." What law? Here, we while another said that the Lord would call hiin

t:il.l~erstand or fall. Atark you, it is luu! now. out of Egypt (Hos. 11: l), two seemirigly c:or~-

I I' (iotihad originated a law and created man by tradictory statements, 1,11t wc: firltl I8I1:l,l, 1101~11 01'

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Correspondence .............................

Christian Life.. ..............................

young Folks.. ...............................

Farm and Home. .............................

Health ......................................

General News.. ..............................

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"One B*pti~n." J. S. Lawver..

' 1:ccond woe is past, and b ~lva'&~dThings. Mrs. L. D. Carey.

A(~:I.III

!;ohby preachers aiuc? 1 cyclones, earthquakes, and fiery trials arc just

,road until the means j the forerunner.

to 1 prepare them for corning wrath, of which these

Yet I shall be, when t

The author of this 'epitaph had read J&-

miah's ti~scriytion of t,lle death of Rachel's

other class. Weeds / The Philade@hia Ledger, in a recent issue re-

: tending, but if you marks upon the la,te destructive storms and

lie de-

clares t,hat while in death's state they "xere

not."

that have visited the

world, and adds by way of ioquiry :

"Was there anything in the atmospheric con-

n, and the weeds kept

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brethren, saia, "Oue is not,," reierring to Jose?';,

whcm they supposed dead (Gen. 42 : 32). They

had learned this idea of death from their father,

Jacob, who mournfully exclaimed, "Joseph is

not," referring to his supposed death (Gen. 43 :

36). "Was, and is not," in Rev. 17th, describes

the beast before and while wounded to death.

hction in this matter

uth, preachers, papers I ditions at the times of these fires to give uilusual

otency to the nonsumi~igelenlent ? This is not

/ esked as a question t,hat can be answered, but as a

.as not awakened to it, 1 quastion to suggest inquiry, in its relations to

here in the office have the extraordinary atmospheric disturbauces

.able t,llat we s]lould , which have marked this season, anrl which, to

a distance

us i some extent, characterized the period at which

1 he Chicago fire occurred. In this last-

We an- mentioned year, and near about the . time of

It was evidently customary in the days of patri-

archs and prophets to spaalr of death as a state

of temporary non-being. This old epitaph is in

striking harmony with the above quotations.

In Anvell church-ya,rd, Hartfordshire, Eng.,

on the tombstone of Thomas Manger is the fol-

lowing :

"That which. a beiug was, what is it., show ?

That heing which was, what ie it n~,w ?

'To be ;utie.t 'tis.is not to be, you set:,;

'That which now is not, shall a being be."

In our conflicts for the hope of Iarael it is

truly cheering to read these long-ago testimonies.

~g on bare groond, UP i the Chicago calamity, there were most disastrous

,hanlr God ! we have a i forest and prairie fires in Minnesota and Wiscon-

will pull in spite of ; and intelligent persons who were eye-

ve on." That team is i:tnesse~ to them, in Wisconsin, testified that

carts the I of the fire; that ,peat luminous balls traversed

LO support and help on the air ill the afaicted districts; and that nkw

I hot blasts swept the country for miles in advance

They have pulied the / flames started up at considerable distances from

;he evidence of the past ; :hcz:zi? body c.? the conflagr:ttion. Assuming

I these statements to be true, and they have not

1 been questioned within onr knowledge, there

read this paper and would seem to have been something in the air

h~ be uzed in the Lord's of that region, at that time, which gave it ex-

/ rou to arousa to action. ! traordinary potency to excite combustion, to

bbese tracts, and

their work? Look 1 &a, and other scientists tell us about this?

the side of help. Let 1 Giyen these coincident circumstances, are there

Caleb and Joshua for any relations between them, and does the at-

iety by donations for its I mosphere at times get into a condition to make

feed fire, and to carry it over long distances.

I What can our meteorologisLs, physicists, chemT

:achers who are at man- I ~t extremely susceptible to fire, or to give it an

1 unusual power to excite and feed combustion ?

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THL: Iowa Stat.e_Carnpmeetingis td commence

on the 10th of August. See the change in the

date in the notice.

BRO. J. RIDLEY writes in a:private note of a

reccnt two month's trip in southwestern' Iowa,

as pleasant and resulting in good. He sowed

the seed of truth in some new fields, and some

started for the kingdom.

ELD. GEO.W. GREEN, of Memphis, Ind., re-

ports baptizing three persons at Muddy Fork

church, on the 8th inst.,Land there are others

expecting to go forward in that ordinance eoon.

The interest therc is on the increase, and God's

name is bcing g'::rine<.

THE church in North Fairfield, Ohio, has no

regular preacher. Bro. Harvey writes us that

Bros. Jefferson and Alling from Norwalk supply

them occasionally, and that they have good

social meetings, and .they llve in hopes that the

Lord will send some one among them to preach

the word of divine truth. May it be so.

If they are not ) If there be any such influences-evenif there be

Ost, them go and 1 only a suspicion of them-and if this season,

lead, arid that you will ! with its long list of hurricanes, severe storms,

veakness and stren,pthen"l and disastrous forest and city fires be one oi

go on, and you will be

leantime, let those who

to introduce the paper

~d God ill bless their

the seasons when such agencies may be potent

in the air, then it is a season to be on guard

against the beginnings of fires, whether by 'ac-

cident' or by spontaneous combustion, or by

the fire-cracker and rocket-stick. Those

people are wise who do not tempt fate or under-

take to defy the powers of nature."

such inquiFic6 ,;; e \\ tp1l

[ready in your hands are

lone.

i::.li.., 7; ..-e rtf the

Almighty is better. Most people regard these

fearful scenes as but "visitations" to this earth.

uuu tcj :-,.

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f ELEMENTS.

. called "elemental dis- 1 We remark, however, that instead of belng

t the world, as the ac- '(visitors," they have come to stay, and by the

earthquakes, fires and i best of evidence, both scientific and Biblical,

In to them. But their 1 they will not cease their work until the final

Ice have led people to re- shaking of the heavens and the earth, which

thing besides mere dis- shall result in "the removing of those things

.ful raging and a furious 1 that are shaken, as of things that are made,

,r some future disaster of ! that those things which cannot be shaken may

ONE N. H. Barbour, called Dr. arbo our,\

with h1s confreres, J. H. Paton and C. T.

Russell, is traveling around the country, going

nitude. I remain1' (Heb. 12 : 27).

of nature that are manl- Having the mind of the Spirit that first moved

eneral as to create suspi- ( upon the chaos of matter, and brought light and

g =any wise heads, who order to nature, we may rest assured that this

everywhere that they can find Adventists, and 1

preaching that Jesus has come secretly, and will 1

soon be revealed, and mingling in their lectures 3

a lot of "Age-to-come" trash, all to subvert i

iat the course of nature is 1 Spirit, under whose dispensation we now live,

luraged in

children in lrjs thirty-first chapter wl~ere

disastrous ~o~nflagrations

Jacob's children, rrhen spszkicr - 8

ire.

e for some time pwt re-

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their hearers. They are not endorsed by hand arlri lamps trimmed and well burning. The At present, the ,I~T

Adventists, '(Age-to-come" folks, or anybody eyes of the world are upon us, and if we let our of California is at this

else, yet having some money and a few sympa- light go

-- AD VENT QHBI8TIAN TIMBB.

thefwili be lost.

the 17th of May, and

It is over ten years since I first experienced in the name of the Lo

thizers they

run awhile. ~h~~

the love of Chrrst, and I have attended many serve the Lord, and

lneetings, but do not re~nemberhearing one ser- works. Sr. M. J. Clar

have been to Ohio and Indiana and are working

westward. We are

informed lhat One mon on the second coming of Cldst until last preaching, relieved or

them

in Union

Ind" a few days winter, and that was by Eld. Mabey, at South Carpenter, of Vallejo.

that they

break

evbry Advent IXume, Whiteside county, Ill. Thailks be to .has been among us wii

church in the lard. We guess not. Their

ging, we have a little baed of chris-

whole work is proselyting. The Lord never

sent them on their mission. Give them no

place, and go not near them or countenance

them.

tians t'here who are at work in earnest, and are

letting their light shine; and we have prayer-

meeting every Thursdayevening, which is well

att,ended, and the interest is steadily increasing.

Fro111 Hettie M. Pa

BRO.BU~~:-I

cere thanks for the re,

welcome visitor, the

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% 2-goodylz:~p;;ct. filr :a. grind work to he

that I have

once more if perusing

I should dearly love

brethren and sisters ai

the description of

pleasure. My prayer:

How it cheers my 1

from the loved ones, a

to meet with them. I

ing here, I was permi

sister once a week at l

ated from ,her, slle bej

Nebraska teaching r

alone here among stra

Baraboo.

I look forward

my sohool, when, if ri

once more with somc

People here think net;

to three dances durin;;

ty of tile church-mrr

party. How sr-a;;:

done here; and may God give us all faith to be-

-- lieve that we rnay see the car of salvation move

From Eld. D. T. Call, H&ockbriclge,0. , forward and the cause of Christ prosper. I be-

BRo. BuRn:-After so long silence 1 will write I lieve -that the lack of faith arnong God's children

you a line, that you may know how we are get- 1 is a great%inderance.

ti11g along here in your old field of labor. The I

church here is still alive, tllough not as much 1

" Oh, for a faith that will not shrink,

Though pressed by every foe ;

alive to the nearness of the coming of Christ, and /

That will not tremble on the brink

Of any earthly woe."

their condition, as they should be. I am preach- 1

Froin Charles F. Barlow, Roue, Iowa.

BRO. BURR:-I thought it a duty as well, as a

privilege to write the T1ues, and let the

i brethren know that I and my little family are

to serve Our Master Our weakness, and

ing to the church ill hfillville llalf of the time, and

working new fields the other half. The people

are showing a deep interest in the gospel of the

kiiigdom, arid many are acceptiilg it. I must say

that 1 like the appearance of the T1nrEs in it new

may continue to carry comfort and cheer to tile 1 messenger to as. We read it with much interest.

waiting and longing ones, who are looking for

It feeds

hungry

keep

and hasting unto the coming of the day of God." them, but there are

many around us in need

For myself, I can say that the cause of Christ of such its they contaill' We give them

is dearer to me to-day than ever, and his truth is I to OUT "eii?llbors* believing they will

do some

clearr.than ever before, and I feel more and more / good.

There are no

here

8 -!I -" ti:E

I faith: !rut l,?e srt. millin:; to fight the battle alone lI..;iiY..,

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of the Lord than ever before. Oh, Bro. Burr, it 'till God gives the increase. My Prayer is that I Kindly soliciting

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is precious to iLmu

that we are iIl his care, and I he will raise up a people here that will preach his

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truth. A1~ burns within me when I hear

them preach 'L peace and safety," and that the

loss of a darling child, who had heen with us only 1 world is growing better.

that whatever onrnes upon us is for our good.

Last January we were called upon to'monrn the

Frorn,Mrs. C. C. Ft

BRO.BuRR:-I can

and his goodness enE

one short year, just long enough for our hearts /

I have given away

Bro.Mood~'stracts for his children and lr

' 0" "The Second Co~ningof the I~ord,"and we seen and unseen-

think they are doillg a little ~ood. The report

1 has been circulated about tlie.~leif;hborhoodthat

I am blcwirlg tlle coming to an end,

and tlx: Methodist preacher told nle he did not

I want me to talk my peculiar views in his meet-

ings. But by the grace of G-od I an1 cietonnined

fight the good

to twine their arms of love around her, wheu she

was taken from us, and we were left to mourn,

But, glory to God, Jesus is corning soon, and he

will restore her to our arms. Pray i'or us. I re-

main yours iu the "tie that binds."

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Prum Geo. Breclca?nridge, T:~nmpico,Ill.

Brio. Bun~:-As 1 feel it my duty t;~

plenty of again

to murnlur. B~~ I 2

the name of the JAor,5

those that put

do all 1

can for the cause of Christ, I take this opl.)ortu-

nity to write a few lines, this being the iirst time

I ever atteinpted to wr'ite for publioatiou. TL

subject I want to speak about is the ten virgins

that' are spoken of in Matt. 25. I understand

faith, and lay

J,,z

long. I do t rc-r.

_ ye

eternal life.

I have a class in the Methodist Sunday-school.

After Sunday-school we have prayer meeting, and

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/ I am determined to hold up the truth as long as '

and

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, understanding; do justly, love mercy, and -;rG

I live, and may I do it with the Spirit and the 9:

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those ten virgins to mean the churcli, and not 1 humbly before my God. Let us ii? -:;

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the whole world, as it may be supliosed by some

thnt f; ;re -,risr rirgi.~s yarn tlil church. 1 I,i 1,. 'yhe time ilk,s come rij;<= zL2 :-T ,,:,j:l ?

heads aud :.ejoice, for our r?.>x;<::

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the other five welr the world's people. I claim

that the ten mean the church, aud if this is the

case I say it is no wonder that we die those wllo

Tvere once true disciples of Christ languish

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tcr be made, '6 Behold, the BriJegr*:,= I.:=5c::

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yc out to meet him." Brethren, przy irr 2. z? -

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From your brother in Christ.

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dress very much, and shall always pr;ty that it 1 leaking for our Lord. The TIMES is a welcome

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