Sister S. C. Corey writes from Ulysses, Pa., Jan. 12th, 1859: "The evening following our conference the first of this month the brethren and sisters having met for prayer-meeting, Satan sent out his agents and stoned the house; but the Lord protected his people and they had a good meeting. I truly feel that the day of strong delusions has come, and Satan is at work with all power and signs and lying wonders; but if like good soldiers we put on the whole armor of God, and fight manfully, we shall soon come off more than conquerors through him that has loved us. There are very many precious promises for our encouragement in the Bible, such as, If we suffer with him we shall also reign with him. Let us rejoice then, when we are persecuted for righteousness' sake, and be glad to be companions of those that are so used. The Lord help the remnant to overcome, is my prayer."
To Correspondents.
By Editor
H. Grover. Remember that the promises and threatenings of the Lord are always conditional. The following general rule on this point is found in Jer. xviii, 7-10. God says,
"At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have proclaimed, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them."
Apply this rule to the threatening against the Laodiceans, and there is no trouble. They are to be rejected of God, only on condition that they do not repent. On this account, therefore, they are counseled to be zealous and repent; and those who heed this counsel, and overcome, have the promise of sitting with Jesus on his throne.
In regard to the 144,000, it is only by connection with corrupt churches that persons become defiled in a spiritual sense. But the church of God is a pure church. It is to be presented to God, "without spot or wrinkle or any such thing." Eph. v, 27. None need be afraid of a connection with this church.
A. Pierce. Events in the antitype must take place in the same order that they did in the type. If then, the plagues of Egypt are typical of the seven last plagues; and if the deliverance from Egypt, is typical of a deliverance of the people of God, down here, it must be of our final deliverance from earth, after the pouring out of the seven last plagues. But these plagues are yet future; consequently we cannot now be occupying a period, corresponding antitypically to the forty years' sojourn of Israel in the wilderness.
The Instructor.
By James White
In the Review for Dec. 30th, we stated—"We have marked the amount due on the margin of the January number; and if those who are in debt will pay the sums due, and 25 cents for Vol. vii immediately, we will change the terms in the next month's paper to 25 cents." We found about $200 due. This should have been paid, and more than $200, on the present volume by this time. This would save the trouble, expense and perplexity of publishing the Instructor on credit, or with borrowed money. There is receipted in the February number only $40,29. therefore, instead of reducing the price of the paper, we shall be obliged to reduce the number of those subscribers who neglect to pay their just dues. J. W.
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Letters.
By James White
Our brethren and sisters all love to read the letters in the Review, and of course the editor loves to gratify their taste by publishing them. But with the writers he is unacquainted, and therefore if a letter is sometimes inserted from a person in whom we have no confidence, let us not blame the editor, but remember that if he published only the letters of those who, by personal acquaintance, he knew to be in good standing and firm in the faith, this department of the paper would be discontinued.
You want them left out, do you? Well, let us write in filling the letter pages with good, warm-hearted, soul-stirring epistles, that will leave no room for cold, formal, prosy essays from lukewarm Christians. J. H. W.
The Cause in Colon and Burlington.
By James White
FROM a short visit to Colon I am able to report a good state of the cause in that place. Some have fallen away whom we fondly hoped to meet in the kingdom, but those that remain are firm and united in the truth. Others are still interested and inquiring, and we trust the little company of believers will ever realize that in order to lead others to glorify God, they must let their light so shine that they may see their good works. These form the unanswerable argument.
The church in Burlington has walked in some darkness on account of reproach brought on the truth by its professors. They have generally been remiss in walking up to the rule laid down by our Saviour in Matt. xviii. But they have lately been brought to see the necessity of action, and fellowship has been withdrawn from some whose walk was disorderly, and the result is that more brotherly-love and union exist now than have existed heretofore. Their meetings are spirited, and indicate that the church is rising from its low state.
Two were baptized on the 23rd inst., and although it was one of the coldest days of the winter, it was a season of pleasure and profit to myself, and I trust to all. If the brethren and sisters wish to have agreeable and profitable seasons in attending to such duties, they must first remove the weights and stumbling-blocks, and thus ensure the smile of God and the presence of his Spirit. To administer the ordinances of the gospel to a cold, formal church, where the Spirit of God has been grieved away, is a task—a grievous burden to the messenger of the truth, and hard to be borne. J. H. W.
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