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I,o second death) all dead?" Again Paul says the idea s+:ems t o get into some minds t.hat the
in Heb. 9: 27, b L and as it is appointed (not as Bible is a book of mysteries, and cannot be unPage.
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once t o die, and after t h i s the judgment." W e cispiritual meaninan and that which appears on
The Raging Elements. ........................ 89
read there is a death after the judgment, and it the face of i t is not its true meaning. That is a
SeDulchralCuriosilies.. ...................... 89
~liurchNews.. ............................. 89
is called a death tor, or on account of, sin, and mistaker~idea: for, instead, the Bible purports t,o
Contributed Artieles :
is also called the second death. Question-What
be God's -.<illrevealed to man, all5 if i t is someRedemution. P. Holler. ...................
caused
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first
death?
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reve:.iied i t carlnot be sometlling mysteThe Bible-No 3 . J . Ridley.. ...............
Separation. Mrs. C. Case. ................
inan's transgression caused death, and Paul pas- rious, for t.!~cyare opposites; and that he designed
Mr. Baxter's Antichrist J . E. Clark.. .......
itively says all sinned in Adam.
1 it
t o be understood is evident, for he says, that
"Disobediint to P~rants." J. P . &Iarquand...
"One B*pti~n." J. S. Lawver.. ...........
Again, W h a t is the penalty of sin? as we have b L the things that are revealed belong unto us a ~ ~ d
Camoaisn Paoer. A. A. .................
positively proved that Adam sinned, and that all t o our children forever (Deut. 29: 29).
~ l v a ' & ~ dThings. Mrs. L. D. Carey. .....
Bible Investigation. C D. W. Scott. .......
t,he race sinned in Adam. God says the penalty
T h e Lord has given u j an infallable rule by
Comfort in Affliction. D. S. Morris. .........
c:f sin is death. Paul says in Gal. 3: 13, " Christ which to ir:terpret his wo:.d, and that is the way
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Heart Breatnings (poetry). ...................
Again, in Gal. 4: 4, Paul says, " When the full- as recorded in the book itself and also in history.
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of a woman, made under the law, to redeam them that he should be born in Bethlehem (Mich. 5 : 2 )
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md you wzl see what also to search the word of God for the mind of
1 the Creator concerning them, and t,hen their
hobby preachere are wisdom will be pervaded with t r u t l ~tnat will
to prepare them for corning wrath, of which these
luraged in
!;ohby preachers aiuc? cyclones, earthquakes, and fiery trials arc just
,road until the means j the forerunner.
The Philade@hia Ledger, in a recent issue reother class. Weeds
: tending, but if you marks upon the la,te destructive storms and
that have visited the
n, and the weeds kept disastrous ~o~nflagrations
world, and adds by way of ioquiry :
"Was there anything in the atmospheric conhction in this matter
uth, preachers, papers I ditions at the times of these fires to give uilusual
otency to the nonsumi~igelenlent ? This is not
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here in the office have the extraordinary atmospheric disturbauces
.able t,llat we s]lould which have marked this season, anrl which, to
us i some extent, characterized the period a t which
a distance
1 he Chicago fire occurred. I n this lastWe an- mentioned year, and near about the . time of
~g on bare groond, UP the Chicago calamity, there were most disastrous
,hanlr God ! we have a i forest and prairie fires in Minnesota and Wiscon; and intelligent persons who were eyewill pull in spite of
ve on." That team is i:tnesse~ to them, in Wisconsin, testified that
I hot blasts swept the country for miles in advance
carts the
of the fire; that ,peat luminous balls traversed
LO support and help on the air ill the afaicted districts; and that nkw
They have pulied the flames started up at considerable distances from
;he evidence of the past :hcz:zi? body c.? the conflagr:ttion. Assuming
I these statements to be true, and they have not
ire.
1 been questioned within onr knowledge, there
read this paper and would seem to have been something in the air
h~ be uzed in the Lord's of that region, a t that time, which g a v e it exrou to arousa to action. ! traordinary potency to excite combustion, to
f e e d fire, and to carry it over long distances.
bbese tracts, and
I What can our meteorologisLs, physicists, chemT
their work? Look
&a, and other scientists tell us about this?
the side of help. Let 1 Giyen these coincident circumstances, are there
Caleb and Joshua for any relations between them, and does the atiety by donations for its I mosphere a t times get into a condition to make
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:achers who are at man- II ~t
extremely susceptible to fire, or to give it an
1 unusual power to excite and feed combustion ?
If they are not
) If there be any such influences-evenif there be
Ost,
them
go and 1 only a suspicion of them-and
if this season,
lead, arid that you will ! with its long list of hurricanes, severe storms,
veakness and stren,pthen"l
and disastrous forest and city fires be one oi
go on, and you will be the seasons when such agencies may be potent
in the air, then i t is a season to be on guard
leantime, let those who against the beginnings of fires, whether by 'acto introduce the paper cident' or by spontaneous combustion, or by
~d God ill bless their the fire-cracker and rocket-stick.
Those
[ready in your hands are people are wise who do not tempt fate or undertake to defy the powers of nature."
lone.
s u c h inquiFic6 ,;;e \\tp1l
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u u u tcj :-,.
i::.li..,..-e rtf the
f ELEMENTS.
Almighty is better. Most people regard these
e for some time pwt re- fearful scenes as but "visitations" to this earth.
called "elemental dis- 1 We remark, however, that instead of belng
t the world, as the ac- '(visitors," they have come to stay, and by the
earthquakes, fires and best of evidence, both scientific and Biblical,
In to them. But their 1 they will not cease their work until the final
Ice have led people to re- shaking of the heavens and the earth, which
thing besides mere dis- shall result in "the removing of those things
.ful raging and a furious 1 that are shaken, as of things that are made,
,r some future disaster of that those things which cannot be shaken may
remain1' (Heb. 12 : 27).
nitude.
Having the mind of the Spirit that first moved
of nature that are manleneral as to create suspi- ( upon the chaos of matter, and brought light and
g =any wise heads, who order to nature, we may rest assured that this
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The author of this 'epitaph had read J&miah's ti~scriytion of t,lle death of Rachel's
children in lrjs thirty-first chapter wl~erelie declares t,hat while in death's state they "xere
not."
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Jacob's children, rrhen spszkicrrnsrr
brethren, saia, "Oue is not,," reierring to Jose?';,
whcm they supposed dead (Gen. 42 : 32). They
had learned this idea of death from their father,
Jacob, who mournfully exclaimed, "Joseph is
not," referring to his supposed death (Gen. 43 :
36). "Was, and is not," in Rev. 17th, describes
the beast before and while wounded to death.
I t was evidently customary in the days of patriarchs and prophets to spaalr of death as a state
of temporary non-being. This old epitaph is in
striking harmony with the above quotations.
I n Anvell church-ya,rd, Hartfordshire, Eng.,
on the tombstone of Thomas Manger is the following :

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"That which. a beiug was, w h a t is it., show ?

That heing which was, what ie it n~,w?
'To be ;utie.t 'tis.is not to be, you set:,;
'That which now is not, shall a being be."

In our conflicts for the hope of Iarael it is

truly cheering to read these long-ago testimonies.

THL:Iowa Stat.e_Carnpmeetingis td commence

on the 10th of August. See the change in the
date in the notice.
BRO.J. RIDLEYwrites in a:private note of a
reccnt two month's trip in southwestern' Iowa,
as pleasant and resulting in good. He sowed
the seed of truth in some new fields, and some
started for the kingdom.

ELD.GEO. W. GREEN, of Memphis, Ind., reports baptizing three persons a t Muddy Fork
church, on the 8th inst.,Land there are others
expecting to go forward in that ordinance eoon.
The interest therc is on the increase, and God's
name is bcing g'::rine<.
THE church in North Fairfield, Ohio, has no
regular preacher. Bro. Harvey writes us that
Bros. Jefferson and Alling from Norwalk supply
them occasionally, and that they have good
social meetings, and .they llve in hopes that the
Lord will send some one among them to preach
the word of divine truth. May it be so.
.ONE N. H. Barbour, called Dr.
with h1s confreres, J. H. Paton and C. T.
Russell, is traveling around the country, going
everywhere that they can find Adventists, and
preaching that Jesus has come secretly, and will 1
soon be revealed, and mingling in their lectures
1
a lot of "Age-to-come" trash, all to subvert i

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their hearers. They a r e not endorsed by hand arlri lamps trimmed and well burning. The
A t present, the ,I~
Adventists, '(Age-to-come" folks, o r anybody eyes of the world are upon us, and if we let our of California is at this
thefwili be lost.
the 17th of May, and
else, yet having some money a n d a few sympa- light go
It
is
over
ten
years
since
I
first
experienced
in the name of the L o
run awhile. ~h~~
thizers they
the love of Chrrst, and I have attended many serve the Lord, and
have been to Ohio and Indiana and a r e working
lneetings, b u t do not re~nemberhearing one ser- works. Sr. M. J. Clar
westward. We are
informed lhat One mon on the second coming of C l d s t until last preaching, relieved or
them
in Union
Ind"a few days winter, and that was by Eld. Mabey, at South Carpenter, of Vallejo.
that they
break
evbry Advent IXume, Whiteside county, Ill. Thailks be to .has been among us wii
church in the l a r d . W e guess not. Their H
~ ging, we
~ have ~a little ~
baed of~ chris- >
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whole work is proselyting. T h e Lord never tians t'here who are a t work i n earnest, and are Fro111 Hettie M. P a
sent t h e m on their mission. Give them no letting their light shine; and we have prayerBRO.B U ~ ~ : - I
place, and go not near them o r countenance meeting every Thursdayevening, which is well cere thanks for the re,
att,ended, and the interest is steadily increasing. welcome visitor, the
them.
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% 2-good ylz:~p;;ct. filr grind work to he tj~n,nl<fillthat I have
done here; and may God give us all faith to be- once more ifperusing
C.L
lieve that we rnay see the car of salvation move I should dearly love
, forward and the cause of Christ prosper. I be- brethren and sisters ai
From Eld. D. T. Call, H&ockbriclge,0.
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BRo. BuRn:-After so long silence 1will write I lieve -that the lack of faith arnong God's children the description of
you a line, that you may know how we a r e get- is a great%inderance.
pleasure. My prayer:
" Oh, for a faith that will not shrink,
ti11g along here in your old field of labor. T h e I
How i t cheers my 1
Though pressed by every foe ;
from the loved ones, a
church here is still alive, tllough not as much
That will not tremble on the brink
to meet with them. I
alive t o the nearness of the coming of Christ, and
Of any earthly woe."
ing here, I was permi
their condition, as they should be. I am preach- 1
sister once a week a t l
ing to the church ill hfillville llalf of the time, and Froin Charles F. Barlow, Roue, Iowa.
BRO. BURR:-I thought i t a duty as well, as a ated from ,her, slle bej
working new fields the other half. The people
privilege
to write
the T1ues, and let the Nebraska teaching r
are showing a deep interest in the gospel of the
i brethren know that I and my little family are
alone here among stra
kiiigdom, arid many are acceptiilg it. I must say
to serve Our Master
Our weakness, and
Baraboo.
that 1 like the appearance of t h e T1nrEs in i t new
dress very much, and shall always pr;ty that it 1 leaking for our Lord. T h e TIMES is a welcome
I look forward
may continue to carry comfort and cheer t o tile messenger t o as. W e read i t with much interest. my sohool, when, if ri
hungry
like
keep once more with somc
waiting and longing ones, who are looking for It feeds
but
there
are
many
around
us
in
need
and hasting unto the coming of t h e day of God." them,
People here think net;
its
they
contaill'
We
give
them
For myself, I can say that the cause of Christ of such
to three dances durin;;
is dearer t o me to-day than ever, and his truth is i to OUT "eii?llbors* believing they will do some ty of tile church-mrr
here
clearr.than ever before, and I feel more and more / good. There are no
party. How sr-a;:
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.-faith: !rut l,?e s r t . millin:; t o fight the battle alone lI..;iiY..,
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-like hotilg ...; :ha I :!'a; ..,nd Ll:$:r..
of the Lord than ever before. Oh, Bro. Burr, i t 'till God gives the increase. My Prayer is that Kindly
rc,;l
is precious to iLmu
that we are iIl his care, and he will raise up a people here that will preach his
burns within me when I hear Frorn,Mrs. C. C. Ft
that whatever onrnes upon us is for our good. truth. A 1 ~
them
preach
'L peace and safety," and that t h e
Last January we were called upon to'monrn the
BRO.BuRR:-I can
loss of a darling child, who had heen with us only 1 world is growing better.
and his goodness enE
I have given away
one short year, just long enough for our hearts
B r o . M o o d ~ ' stracts for his children and lr
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0"
"The Second Co~ningof the I ~ o r d , " and we seen and unseent o twine their arms of love around her, wheu she
was taken from us, and we were left to mourn, think they are doillg a little ~ o o d . The report plenty of
again
But, glory t o God, Jesus is corning soon, and he 1 has been circulated about tlie.~leif;hborhoodthat to murnlur. B~~I 2
tlle
coming to an end, the name of the JAor,5
will restore her to o u r arms. Pray i'or us. I re- I am blcwirlg
and tlx: Methodist preacher told nle he did not those that put
main yours iu the "tie that binds."
--cf------I want me to talk my peculiar views in his meet- did not raise
I.
ings. B u t by the grace of G-od I an1 cietonnined been cares for Thz5 2
Prum Geo. Breclca?nridge, T:~nmpico,Ill.
fight the good
faith, and lay
care for us UCS
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Brio. B u n ~ : - A s 1 feel i t my duty t ; do
~ all 1
eternal life.
I
do
t
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can for t h e cause of Christ, I take this opl.)ortuI have a class in the Methodist Sunday-school. I rejoice t ~ z rrt
r
nity t o write a few lines, this being the iirst time
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After Sunday-school we have prayer meeting, and and
I ever atteinpted to wr'ite for publioatiou. TL
/ I am determined t o hold u p the truth as long as
ye
subject I want to speak about is the ten virgins
I live, and may I do i t with the Spirit and the 9:
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that' are spoken of in Matt. 25. I understand
understanding; do justly, love mercy, and -;rG
those ten virgins to mean the churcli, and not 1 humbly before my God. Let us ii? :
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fi8L
b
the whole world, as it may be supliosed by some
ma- : ii:! .w~n-'a .IT!
L-lv-3
heads aud :.ejoice, for our r?.>x;<::
thnt
f;;re -,risr rirgi.~s yarn tlil church.
I,i 1,. 'yhe time ilk,s come r i j ; < = zL2 :-T
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t h e other five welr the world's people. I claim
tcrbe made, '6 Behold, the BriJegr*:,= I.:=5c::
S.
F U @ ~ B I U I . ~'- m
that the ten mean the church, aud if this is the
y c out t o meet him." Brethren, przy irr 2. z? -.ei au;r!L m w h
case I say it is no wonder that we die those wllo
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From your brother in Christ.
Tvere once true disciples of Christ languish
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