Sister L. F. Chase writes from Avon, Wis.: “I rejoice in the privilege of reading the testimonies of the scattered ones of like precious faith. I have been striving for about forty-five years to follow my Saviour, and can truly say that I have found him to be a present help in every time of need. Many have been the times that the deep waters of affliction had almost overflowed me, but the same Jesus that kept Peter from sinking would say, “Daughter, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Yes, brethren and sisters, we shall surely overcome if we follow our Saviour through evil as well as good report. If we suffer with him we shall also reign with him according to his promise.
“One year ago last fall Bro. Sanborn came to Avon and gave us a course of lectures, the first I ever heard. It led me to studying my Bible anew. I found I had been trampling upon the commandments of God. I had never regarded the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and truly I felt to mourn, although I had done it ignorantly. I felt that the Lord would forgive me if I followed the light as I received it. It was crushing. I had once followed my Saviour into the liquid grave when I was thirteen years of age. I was blessed, although but a child. Glory to Jesus! was my theme.
“I now viewed that the commandments were holy, just and good, and I must obey in order to have an entrance into that holy city. I again was buried in the likeness of Christ’s death, that I might walk in newness of life. I rejoice that I ever heard the third angel’s message. My heart is full while I write. The Lord has called out a people in Avon who are striving for the kingdom. We want to meet our brethren and sisters. We want to see Jesus and all the redeemed, and those who have come up through great tribulation, and kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I am determined to toil on till Jesus comes, if it is mine to live till that time, and if not, thy will, O Lord, be done. If these broken lines should be read by any of the lonely and disconsolate, I would say to them, Lift up your head for your redemption draweth nigh. O may our faith fail not. Brethren and sisters, let us ever live in union, and bear each other’s burdens, and be patient, waiting for the coming of our blessed Saviour.”
OBITUARY.
By J. A. WILCOX
Fell asleep in Jesus in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1860, Emily DuBois, youngest child of sister Elizabeth DuBois, aged 9 months. Bro. Jacob Ayers made some very appropriate and comforting remarks for the consolation of the bereaved mother and friends of the deceased, from 1 Cor. xv, and also from a portion of scripture found in Rev. xiv, 13: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth, yea, saith the Spirit,” &c. It is now about one and a half years since our dear sister DuBois was called by a mournful providence to follow the lifeless remains of her husband to the cold and silent tomb.
Dear brethren and sisters, we would request your earnest prayers to Him who has promised to be a husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless, in behalf of our dear sister, and Caroline DuBois, her only surviving child, in this sorrowful hour of affliction and bereavement.
J. A. WILCOX.
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I have received The Good Samaritan No. 4, and have read its contents (some of it twice over). While meditating upon the condition of the worthy poor brought to view therein, the thought came to my mind, Have I done my duty? I have a good home, and plenty to eat and to wear, and above all, am blessed with good health, able to labor, and in the language of Paul, “These hands have ministered unto my necessities.” Acts xx, 34. In the verse following he tells us our duty: “I have shewed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
I say, while contrasting my condition with that of some of my brethren and sisters who are scarcely able to get out to enjoy the fresh air of heaven, I feel it my duty to do my part in supporting the weak and helping the needy. Although by so doing I may receive the scoffs and frowns of friends and relatives, yet I am determined, by the assisting grace of God, to walk in the counsel of his word as fast as made known to me, that I may look forward to the consummation of the Christian’s hope with joy and not with sorrow.
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O. H. of Ohio. QUERY: “Will the wicked be raised incorruptible? Paul says the dead shall be raised incorruptible, in 1 Cor. xv, 53. Does he mean the righteous only? or both the righteous and wicked?”
ANSWER.—The wicked will be raised, but not incorruptible. Paul in 1 Cor. xv, from the 50th verse onward, is only speaking of his “brethren.” It is of those who are to “inherit the kingdom of God.” It is of those who are to be raised at the last trump, verse 52; and those are the dead in Christ, 1 Thess. iv, 16; and this is the first resurrection, Rev. xx, 5. The difference between the righteous and the wicked is clearly set forth in Gal. vi, 7, 8: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Now when does the great reaping time here brought to view take place? It must be beyond this life; for this life is occupied in sowing, either to the flesh, preparatory to a harvest of corruption, or to the Spirit, preparatory to a harvest of life everlasting. When we are from the Spirit to reap life everlasting, many scriptures inform us. It is when the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead shall quicken our mortal bodies, Rom. viii, 23; when this corruption shall put on incorruption, and mortality shall be swallowed up of life, 1 Cor. xv, 53; 2 Cor. v, 4; which is at the last trump, and when he who is our life shall appear, 1 Cor. xv, 52; Col. iii, 4; 1 Peter v, 4; at the resurrection of the just. Luke xiv, 14. But in the same manner as the righteous reap life everlasting, that is, through a resurrection, the wicked, it is expressly declared, reap corruption; they are not therefore raised incorruptible.
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G. P. W. of Me.: For remarks on the covenants see REVIEW No. 21, Vol. xv.
In regard to those who are supposed to have been raised at the crucifixion of Christ, you will find by reading carefully Matt. xxvii, 52, 53, that they did not come out of their graves on the day of his crucifixion, but “after his resurrection.”
As regards the compilation of the Bible, the Old Testament canon as we now have it, was drawn up by the Jews in the fourth century before Christ. It so existed in the days of Christ, and its authenticity is acknowledged by frequent appeals to it by Christ and his apostles. The books which we now have under the name of the New Testament, are such as have been generally acknowledged from the time of the early Christians and fathers to the present; and the acts or decisions of councils can neither add to, nor detract from, this great fact. Josephus was not born till thirty-seven years after Christ; but the canon of the Old Testament was made up and completed centuries before Christ; his works could not therefore come up for admission into those writings; and it is absurd to suppose that any Christian would legislate upon them to have them form a part of the New Testament.
In reference to your inquiries on 1 Cor. vii, 6-12, &c., we reply that the language of Paul so far from acknowledging a lack of inspiration, is just the reverse. Hear Gaussen on this point: “Far from limiting the divinity of apostolic language, these phrases on the contrary speak as only the fullest and most sovereign inspiration could authorize. St. Paul could speak thus only by placing his epistles, if I may so say, as St. Peter had done, on the level with the other sacred writings; nay, we may say, above them, inasmuch as we there hear a more recent and binding expression of the will of our Lord.” On the Inspiration of the Bible, p. 200. Such expressions as “I command, yet not I but the Lord,” &c., evidently refer to scriptures previously given which treat upon the same point.