BRO. SMITH: We pitched our tent in this place the 29th of July. There was great opposition against the truth. Eld. Drew, the professed champion of the place, came into our tent and began to oppose us, and challenged for a discussion on the state of the dead. He was backed up by the presiding elder and four other preachers. He said he would discuss this question from July till Jesus comes, and die we must, or he would. He stated a proposition; Bro. Ingraham told him it did not cover the ground, and stated one that did. He would not accept it. Bro. I. told him he would speak one evening and he might the next. Eld. D. said he would rather have Bro. I. speak one hour and he would the next. Bro. I. told him he would do so. They appointed to commence the next evening.
Bro. I. spoke first, and established facts that Eld. D. did not attempt to meet. The people saw the weakness of Eld. D.'s arguments, and their sympathies began to turn in favor of the truth. The controversy lasted three evenings; and at the close of the meeting one of the congregation proposed that Eld. Drew's death be published in the paper; and before they left the ground they appointed his funeral the next day at 2 o'clock. This they contended was just, as he had staked his life on the question, and lost it; therefore they said he should be buried.
Our congregations were large, and this controversy has opened the way for the spread of the truth, instead of weakening our position; and some are deciding to obey God and keep his commandments. The interest is good. We feel encouraged to labor on in this cause, and leave the result with the Lord.
JOHN LINDSEY.
Sabbath Intelligence.
"The Society for promoting the due observance of the Lord's day" formed in England in 1831, is still active in its endeavors to accomplish that end. The following instance is only one of the many of its endeavors: A Mr. Sheepshank having left to the nation a valuable collection of pictures, in his deed of Gift expressed his desire that they should be open for inspection on Sunday. The officious Sunday Society immediately memorialized the Government on the subject, setting forth the evils of such a course, &c. The Government answered that though they felt anxious to meet the wishes of that gentleman, they did not intend to open it on Sunday. How much they were influenced in this decision by the voice of 600,000 petitioners, is not said. The Society's main business for the past two years has been to oppose the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sunday. The Vice-Chancellor finally expressed his opinion that if the Palace was opened and money received for admission on Sunday, the charter would be forfeited. Hereupon the directors, determined not to be foiled, issued tickets to the shareholders, giving them admission on Sunday afternoon—free. The subject has excited much public discussion, in which one Mr. Baxter Langley has boldly opposed the Society on the ground that the seventh day is the only divinely appointed Sabbath. Although this gentleman and those who take their stand with him would not probably contend for the perpetuity of the primitive institution, their frequent declarations may be the means of opening some eyes to the fact that there is no divinity in Sunday-keeping.
A Jew was recently prosecuted in Cincinnati for delivering ice upon Sunday. He plead that he conscientiously observed the seventh day, and had no scruples against working on Sunday. The Judge in his charge declared that the "defendant's conscientiously observing Saturday was all humbug;" and the Jew was fined $5 and costs.
The Sunday laws passed by the legislature of California, have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of that State.
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Read the Article on Immateriality
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HAVE you read the article on Immateriality on the second page of this paper? If not, do so, and if you have, read it again—it will bear it. The absolute nothingness of the modern views of God, heaven, hell, and in fact of the whole hereafter, is there well shown up. Sifting the matter to the bottom, the popular theology of the present day is found to be more refinedly absurd than even the mythology of the ancients.
Extracts from Schmucker.
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[These extracts are from an exposition of the book of Revelation, published in Pennsylvania, in 1821, by J. G. Schmucker, a Lutheran minister. It is not my intention to exhibit the views of the author, which contain a mixture of truth and error, but to select such ideas as are most in harmony with our present light on these prophecies, not, however, endorsing every idea in these extracts.—R. F. C.]
"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
This verse predicts the execution of a new series of measures and enterprises, perfectly distinct from the former, and marked with additional wrath and more explicit anger against Christians, on account of their religion. In my opinion this prophecy is not yet fulfilled, but its accomplishment is approaching, and is near at hand. The object of Satan's wrath is still the woman. But the power of his flood being now exhausted and insufficient to do her any material injury, he has projected a new plan of measures against the remnant of her seed.
To make war. This signifies open opposition by the assistance of civil authority, in order to extinguish the light of the gospel, where it may yet appear like a faint glimmering taper through a dark atmosphere.
The remnant of her seed. A remnant is the residue, that which is yet left, the remaining part.
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