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WINTERS, CAL.
By J. L. Wood
For four evenings I have been holding meetings in this place with quite a degree of interest. We have reason to hope that good will result from this effort.
Oct. 21, 1880. J. L. WOOD.
FAIRFIELD, CAL.
By J. S. Howard, E. A. Briggs
The work is progressing favorably here. We are holding services in a building formerly used as a store. To-morrow evening we expect to open the Sabbath question, and from present indications we have very great hopes that several here will conform to the demands of God's immutable law. Pray for the cause here.
J. S. HOWARD, E. A. BRIGGS.
Oct. 22, 1880.
The Law and the Gospel
By Ellet Joseph Waggoner
A CALIFORNIA minister, bearing the title D. D., not long since made this remark: "I want nothing to do with the law; I have no use for it; I think too much of my master for that."
Ordinarily we might reply, that this was an honest confession. Paul says, "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Why cannot the carnal mind be subject to the law? Because it thinks too much of its master.
But the reverend doctor probably intended to intimate that Jesus was his master, inasmuch as he professes to preach the gospel of Christ. Having no use for the law, he evidently considers it abolished. Hear Paul again: "Sin is the transgression of the law." "Where no sin is, there is no transgression." According to this logic, if there is no law in force there can be no sin, and consequently no need of a Saviour. "They that are whole need not a physician." Clearly, then, it is the very existence of the law that makes the crucified Master a necessity.
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FAST-DAY IN OAKLAND.
By J. D. Rice
LAST Sabbath was a good day for the church in Oakland. At the usual hour for preaching, a special prayer and social meeting was held. The objects for which the day had been set apart for fasting and prayer, were first stated by the Leader. This was succeeded by the reading of Dan. 9:3-16, as recommended in the appointment; and in the prayers that followed, and the testimonies that were borne, these objects were not forgotten.
As our hearts were drawn out to acknowledge God's righteousness, his justice, and his mercies, and to confess our sins as individuals, as a church and as a people, and seek for his pardon and blessing, the Spirit of the Lord came into our midst abundantly, and our hearts were solemn because of His presence. We were constrained to renew our covenant with Him, and to apply our hearts to seek for a deep and thorough consecration of all that we have and are to God.
We believe that the Lord is well pleased with every effort on the part of his people to return unto him, and that our prayers, confessions, and vows, were heard and recorded in Heaven, and that if we are humble, and consecrated to his work, God will answer us, by restoring his feeble ministers to health and activity, and clothing us all with power from on high.
If in returning to Him, we as individuals show our appreciation of what God has done for us, by "walking in the light" which he has presented to us, through his servants, and by performing those duties, which, if left undone, bring His curse and not His blessing (Mal. 3:9, 10), and will obey his command, which says to every one, "Son, go work to-day in my vineyard," by joining those who are engaged actively in the missionary work,—then may we reasonably expect the heavenly anointing, to fit us for the great work of being "laborers together with God."
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