The text of discourse through Mrs. Townsend's mediumship at the funeral of Mrs. Cushman of Hartland, Vt., on the 16th inst., was: "This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality." The spirit said these words did not convey the right idea. It should rather be, "This immortal has thrown off mortality, and this incorruptible has thrown off corruption."
Without stopping to question whether this form of expression would be a correct rendering of the scripture, it is certainly more in consonance with a true spiritual philosophy, and with the genius of christianity. While the former reading throws but a dim and obscure ray athwart the grave, the latter is radiant with a living light that penetrates the mourner's hear with an assurance sweeter than hope itself.—Spiritual Age, July 31st, 1858.
It is no wonder that the spirits wish to change the rendering of 1 Cor. xv, 53. It could not be expected that they would willingly leave unchanged a declaration of sacred writ, so fatal to their false pretensions. Why is it that the present reading casts so "dim and obscure a ray athwart the grave?" It is because the doctrine of the condition of the dead, and the future state, has been falsified and corrupted by the Mother of Harlots; and with the wine of her fornication all nations have been made drunk. But the sacred pillars of tradition must not be shaken nor moved! and whatever portion of the word of God looks dim and obscure, viewed in its light, must either be denied "in toto" or essentially changed.
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Who Is It?
By Editor
WHO IS IT? We have received a communication on "Faith and Works," signed, "A friend of the Truth;" but it is contrary to our custom to make use of any article till we know the writer's genuine name. Who is it?
Those Who Look for the Saviour
Will there be any looking for the Saviour who will not be saved? No: for "unto them that look for him (and this must include all such and only such) will he appear without sin unto salvation." For all those who are looking for him, will prepare to meet him; and those who do not prepare to meet him show thereby that they are not looking for him.
Hard and Easy.
By D. Hewitt
THERE are some things in the world very hard to perform:
1. To bridle our own tongues.
2. To see our own faults.
3. To confess and forsake them.
4. To forgive the faults of others.
5. To practice humility.
On the other hand there are some things very easy.
1. Not to bridle the tongue.
2. Not to see our own faults.
3. Not to confess and forsake them.
4. Not to forgive the faults of others.
5. To be exalted in our own estimation.
D. Hewitt.
Battle Creek, Mich.
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The Fruits of Free Love
The Free-lovers of Berlin Heights, Ohio, are able to report about such progress as we might expect. One of their number committed suicide on the 22nd of June last. In the letter which he left explaining the reasons for his act, occurs this passage: "And here I unite my protest against, and utter my curse upon, Marriage! and I curse Religion! and I curse 'God' the Father monster!"
While we shudder at their blasphemy, we know them by their fruits.
That Lost Day
By Editor
THAT LOST DAY. To those who seem to be thrown into a state of perplexing bewilderment on the subject of the Sabbath, on the supposition that a day was lost in the time of Joshua, we recommend the consideration of a passage in the Apocrypha. In Ecclesiasticus xlvi, 4, the writer speaking of Joshua, says, "Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?" There it is: there was no day lost, but one day was as long as two. That week in which the sun lasted not to go down, and the moon stood still, had seven days in it, just as any other; only it was twenty-four hours longer than usual. And the seventh day of that week was the Sabbath, just as the seventh day of every week before it had been, and as has been the seventh day of every week since. This shows us that the seventh day in the order of its arrival, and not absolute time, is set apart and blessed as a day of rest; and on this principle the difference of time east and west, and the differing length of days north and south, are easily reconcilable with the Sabbath law, and the Sabbath institution.
THE REVIVAL—RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
Our readers will recollect that we some weeks since announced the reception of The Way of Life, a new paper which had sprung to life through the influence of the recent great revival movement. That paper continued about twelve weeks and went down for want of support; and now we learn that Mr. Geo. P. Edgar, its chief conductor, has been arrested and imprisoned on a charge of fraud in his manner of conducting it! Mr. Edgar was one of the leading men on the committee on devotional meetings, and for a long time the main prop of the John-st. daily prayer-meeting, of which we have heard so much.
The committee on the devotional prayer-meeting of Fulton-st. church, it appears, has run the association into debt, the settlement of which is likely to cause trouble. The John-st. meeting has also quite a claim. Much that was supposed to be gratuitous, turns out not to be so. “The sexton demands two dollars a day. The leader of the singing demands fifty cents a day. And in an exciting meeting of the association, the payment of these claims or their repudiation, was a matter of debate.” To these facts the secular papers respond “Surely ‘fifty cents’ for an hour’s service, or ‘two dollars’ a day ought to command, in these hard times, very energetic labors in the service of the Lord.” Thus facts are continually developing which reveal to us more plainly than words could do it, that there has been no soundness in the movement from center to circumference, from beginning to end. We can but believe that the time is right upon us, when the honest in heart among the nominal church-es, will be led to see the character of the bodies to which they belong, and be ready to “come out,” that they partake not of their sins, and receive not of their plagues.
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