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tion of him who wrote such teach­ the religious truth objectively re­
ing, to encourage ami uphold such vealed and established in his word;
things, for 1 have not thought that God has given infill no such right.
it was, but I do say, that his inten­ But man may and should make
progress in understanding
tion, however good
ood it may have j constant progrès«
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removing previous error«. Thu«
good (not weak and beggarly, nor state it, to secure its condemnation. terrible tendency here pointed out,
1 must again protest against the there may be, and we believe must
a miserable failure) if a man use it And yet the writer of these articles
lawfully, as knowing this, that law has taught-that the Christian or appearance of any 'more of it be, constant progress and growth in
is not made for it4'righteous man, godly man is free to contract an through the same, meditfm. 1 have the development of the divine truth
but_far_tlie--lawless and unruly,” adulterous marriage, provided only no sympathy or accord with the- in. the kOHM 11 juiiuL —Because., tha.
of the religion of Christ, in all its respect#,
«C Thus writes .Paul in 1 Tim. 1, thiil lie does sb “ in the Lord.” , idea of belittling
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idrir^ T“am paw bf GmTTTTïere is more virtue ’ is perfect in the revealed word, it
that godly men are not under law. heart sick to think that it was [ and purity in the law of God than does not follow that it is so in the
I' ask in all seriousness what could allowed to appear in one of our can be found in the laws -of men minds of men. We mortals have to.
learn this reveateffTCttgtiOT, tts~W
_ I n ot prove if jdluwo.l
n>a.> . iLxt
Scriptures in tins way ? A study our cause. And because I have purifying virtue ” of the law of learn everything else ; and our at­
of the context Will, I think, satisfy undertaken to counteract its influ­ God is no greater or better than tainments in this learning, for many
every one that Paul’s meaning is ence, by a fair, courteous and res­ that of the law of men, seems to me reasons may be exceedingly slow
found in this, that the penalties for pectful argument and presentation much out of place and away from and imperfect, as we are notinfalli*
violation of the law prescribed in of the truth, I am subjected to, a .the truth. Our efforts should be to ble, and countless difficulties often
it are not for the righteous man personal attack, to ridicule, misre­ exalt the . law of God ill the con­ lie in our way to embarrass and
but for the character that lie men­ presentation and abuse, and under victions and hearts of men. Apart mislead us; difficulties, too not too
tions in the list given immediately,, my earnest protest it is repeated in from jits connection, I would heart- seldom of a very serious character,
The kingdom of God in its devel­
after, the statement. When Paul the columns of the HERALD. A oily approve of much that lie has
month
has
passed
and
not
a
word
said about the law of love. But opment in the intellig *nce and the
declares, as lie* does in Rom. 13,
wh
e n the eft'ort Is ina^l c fa^platT ~,i' i 7, ''fi,nArt 7rr~
TtTgvneral
.Wat the SUU nul-> ■ ,Uw. 4, a 12‘-
s
even
"The
true
.statem
e
nt
that
it
in
antithesis
to
what
God
has
com-
historical growth on the earth, as
minister of God tu the.. Chris tian
gained
admission
to
his
-columns
mandeil,
I
cannot
resist
the
convic-
declared by Jesus, is like a “ seed­
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for good, and Peter says tliat they
because
it
was
under
a
false
head-
tion
that
great
violence
is
done
to
grain cast in the ground ’’ in its
are for praise of them that do well,
ing'and
over
a
false
date.
Notone
the
entire
law
of
God,
since
we
arc
progress ; it does not read) at once
i. e., Christians, and for vengeance
word
of
sympathy
or
encourage
­
clearly
told
that
we
manifest
our
an
infallibly perfect expansion and
on evil doers, we can see that these
statements are in harmony with ment has appeared. I have been love to God and man, by keeping maturity. God, who knows all the
the statement in Timothy, only in left to bear the whole burden of a bis commandments. And now I infirmity of our nature and of our
the way that I have .statrrb- and gross outrage all tnèse weary pray God that we all, writers and lot on earth, waits with mercy and...
that it is a wrestling- of Scripture weeks, and. 1 can aland it no longer. readers, may be enabled to realize charity on this slow and imperfect
I say emphatically that such teach­ in our lives here, and the happy growth of thre divine truth in us;
to quote tlie language to prove that
godly men are not under the law of ing and such attacks must be kept fruitions of heaven hereafter, the and .man should be also merciful
out of the paper in the future. The hope inspiring words of the Holy and charitable in his judgment of
God and Christ.
Another of the great evils of our teaching I am opposing is in effect Spirit in Rev. 22: 14, “ Blessed are his fellow-beings in this regard.
day is the prevalent spirit of law­ infidelity. It is advocated by the they that do his commandments, But how often, alas, are we, poor
lessness. It is manifested , in aiu various so-called , philosophical that they may have a right to the mortals, cruelly intolerant where
unwillingness to submit to whole societies of the day. It is taught tree of life; and may enter in God is mercifully long suffering and
some restraint. The authority of in and by the liberal clubs. It is through the gates into the city.”
forbearing ? This important truth
Helix, Or., Nov. 15, 1882.
the
foundation
of
Nihilism,
Com
­
fathers and mothers, of the State
as regards the subjective develop­
munism,
Agrarianism,
Spiritualism,
and the church, Is contemned and
ment of the truth of God within us,
Religious Liberalism.
and
all
such,
abominations.
It
•*
-
despised. Unbelievers ami godless
should also make us less confident
made
a
Booth
and
a
Guitteau.
It
The
tendency
of
our
age
is
un
­
men say that for a man to submit
in ourselves. Spiritual pride as tn
to ami oliey amy law that comes murdered our President# Lincoln mistakably to liberalism in religion knowledge or perfection of life, is
from outside of himself, that he and Garfield. All must remember and theology. On all sides this always rebuked in the word of God.
does not find in his own heart and j the impudent and blasphemous current of thought reveals itself
The recognition of these two
claim
of
Guitteau,
that
he
was
It is one of the legitimate and di­ sides of Christianity, the objective
mind, is to make himself a mere
God
’
s
man,
and
that
he
bad
a
law
rect fruits of the general, all-charac­ and the subjective—the first, the
slave, and toyield to tyrany. There"
is only this difference between this in his- mind and heart, that com- terizing, all-pervading spirit of free­ perfect divine form, as given in the-
teaching ami that
the articles p»lled him fee remor e G arfield," and dom uf ourttnnes. Religion, theol­ New Testament; the second, the
under review. Its advocates make that hence it was not murder for ogy, the Church, can pever remain human conception of this, often so
it universal, ignoring God, and re­ him to do it. It is because men unaffected by the tide of human very defective, as we se it in the
cognizing no difference between have imbibed such , teaching, and thought and life that sweeps over history of the church in its forms of
men.
He, acknowledging God, are hence unwilling to submit to everything around them. The ob­ doctrines, ordinances and life ; the
the wholesome restraints of law, jective in the Christian religion, as distinction between these two, and
and recognizing
o
o the fact that there
are godly and ungodly men applies that our jails and prisons are occu­ God has fixed it in the Holy Scrip­ their mutual relation, we must re­
the same teaching to the godly pied. It makes men unfaithful to tures, must ever remain the same ; gard as of the utmost importance to
man while he holds the ungodly private and public trusts. It opens but the human conception and for­ us to guide us in our efforts after
man to the restraints of law. As I the way for pleasure, revelry ami mulation of it, that is, religion, the­ “ the truth as it is in Jesus ;” to en­
have licfore said, this is sophistical folly, for vice, immorality ami ology, the Church, in their subject­ able us to form a Correct judgment
and fallacious. The fact that a crime, to be followed just as far as ive forms, are subject to change, for of others and ourselves in rrl gious
man is a godly man, so far from a man’s inclinations may lea<f him. the better or the worse. Man can matters; to give us alike wisdom,
say that it was the inten- j claim po right to change or deform confidence and charity in regard to
freeing him from any moral obliga- 1 i do not
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tions, really intensifies every one
Original Contributions.
of tlipm. The idea that it is
“ Ye Are Not Under Law, But morally right for a godly man to do
Under Grace.”
anything that would bo moral!/
. BEPLY TO ELDEli 8. 0. ADAMS BY B. U. MOSS.
wrong for an ungodly one, is so
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