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rut ND SAB FATH HFR.41_,De " Here is the patience of the Saints : Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus." Rev. 14 : 12. VOLUME 54. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., FIFTH-DAY, AUGUST 7, 1879. NUMBER 7. medimval views was somewhat abated, the rocks of interminable agony, is now sweeping In fine, it presents at present an array of tal- Rtuitint & 1 ttialli doctrine of an eternal hell was still presented back again toward the shores of final restora- ent and a mass of publications so vast in to the sinner as a motive to obedience. Such tionism. He alone will be able to stay this quantity, and so pointed in argument and for- IS ISSUED WEEKLY BY an idea has figured very largely in all the Cal- terrible drift, who, from His throne in Heaven, cible in illustration, that it must become an The Seventh—Day Adventist Publishing Association. vinistic teachings, even down to the first quar- can control not only the tides of the natural but important factor in the solution of the most b ter of our own century. From that time, also those of the spiritual world. If God shall weighty problem which has been presented to ELDER JAMES WHITE, President. however, there has been a rapid change in not come to the rescue, the consequence will the Christian church for ages. M. J. ChArmAx, Secretary,f. H. W. KELLOGG, Treasurer. public sentiment. The pulpit has been speak- be incalculable damage to the cause of truth. Whether looked upon from the natural or Ira- TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or One Dol- ing with less and less certainty of sound each No system of religion ever devised can bear, the theological standpoint, the advocates of lar a Volume of e5 numbers. year upon this great question, until within without injury, the strain of such terrible ex- this theory seem fully to be masters of the Address, Review & Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. the last decade it has become manifest to all travagances of teaching on the part of its situation. When discussing the question of that a change of tactics has been adopted. ministers. The thinking men of the world Scripture teaching on this subject, they all A PRAYER. The instances in which, at present, a resort are certain to come to the conclusion that in- insist upon a literal interpretation of its say- is made to the old terrors for the purpose of ETERNAL, infinite, all-wise, dividuals whose religious sentiments can from ings, when such an interpretation is not ren- And ever-present Lord! impressing the impenitent, have become ex- time to time experience such radical changes, dered impossible by the nature of the text or We bow before thy " great white throne," tremely rare. This fact had become so mani- cannot be safe leaders of the public mind. context. Instead of resorting to metaphor And call thee, Father, Godl fest that Phinney, who was a radical of the If they would stop here, their conclusions and figure as an easy method of removing ob- Jehovah, King ! we know thy power, old-school theory upon this subject, was con- would not be so erroneous. Unfortunately, We feel thy tender love! stacles in the way of a given opinion, they We hunger for the, manna sweet strained to publish in the papers of the coun- however, this would not be characteristic of employ this method of explanation in cases That cometh from above ! try an article calling the attention to the mod- human nature. The danger is that the con- where it is manifestly the only true one. In ern departure, and deploring this marked tempt that they hold for the individuals the study of the Bible they attach to the 0 God, the paths of earth are rough, change in the teaching of the pulpit. whose weakness has been thus clearly mani- terms life and death the same signification Our feet are bleeding, sore ; This remonstrance, however, fell powerless. We yearn for rest at thy "right hand," fested, will attach itself to the book of God which belongs to them in common parlance, And "joys for evermore "! The revolution was too nearly complete to be from which they have claimed to draw their as well as in the sacred writings generally, in- But, Lord, between us and that home stayed. Nay, more ; the allusion to the doctrinal opinions. If this should be the stead of following the practice of many mod- Lie conflicts over sin ; change seemed to precipitate it by acknowl- case, then we have before us an era of •the ern theologians who are compelled, in order to Sustained by thine almighty arm, edging the fact of its existence. Steadily and most terrible infidelity which the world has support their doctrine of the soul's unending The battle we shall win ! rapidly the old landmarks are being removed, ever witnessed. life, to employ the former as signifying hap- Our hearts are faint and trembling oft ; and the new order of things is being entered Relief from past mistakes can never be piness, and the latter as signifying misery. The'way seems weary, long; upon. In the transit, former issues have found in the restoration teaching of the pres- In other words, when the school of inter- Our strength is weakness, but in thee been lost sight of. It is not now a contest ent. If that doctrine is true, then the Bible preters under consideration find God declar- Is strength eternal, strong. for the old hell with its billows of fire and its 0 fill us now with peace divine, is false. It speaks with no doubtful tone inc, that " the soul that sinneth it shall die " And soften and subdue myriads of the damned, doomed to be con- upon that subject. If in the world to come (Eze. 18 : 4), they understand him to mean These hearts of stone, until they throb signed bodily for eternal ages to its fiery there is to be forgiveness and final redemp- relatively the same as he did when address- With love andjoy anew! flames ; but it is simply a struggle for the de- tion, then the book which we call the Bible ing individuals in the use of similar language. fense of a modified conception of the idea of gives a sound upon doctrinal subjects alto- Again, when they read that " the wages of The toil, the pain, the weariness punishment. In that idea is found neither a Will soon be ever o'er ; gether too uncertain to be of any value to the sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal In future days unrest will flee, local hell nor everlasting torment, except as world as a shaper of opinion respecting the life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. And sorrow come no more. it will be realized in remorse of conscience future state. Candid men will readily per- 6 : 23), they are constrained to believe that he This earth will brighten, ne'or to fade, eternal in its duration. But even this ex- ceive this fact, and they will inevitably reject who yields himself a servant to sin will be re- With one long summer day ; tremely diluted form of opinion cannot pass warded—not with an interminable existence 0 hasten, Sun that never sets, either the men who teach it and the Bible And melt the mists away! unchallenged. The intellectual pendulum in along with them, or else they will repudiate in misery—but by the cessation of that exist- its reaction is passing on to the other ex- the doctrine, and cling to the Bible, finding ence in death; and on the other hand they We ask these favors in One Name— treme. Radicalism in the one direction is, therein authority for some view which shall decide that he who becomes a servant of A Name that's "all in all "! as ever, the parent of radicalism in the avoid on the one hand the unreasonable doc- Christ will receive for his services an exten- Through Christ we bow and plead and pray, other. The minds of men tortured by, and sion of his life throughout the eternal ages. 0 hear us as we call trine of an unending hell, and on the other, The "coming and the end" are nea utterly disgusted with, the unreasonable and the possibility of future restoration on the Once more, when they ascertain that eter- O save us even then 1 terrific teachings of the doctors of divinity on part of the sinner to the favor of God. This nal life is to be given to those who by patient And thine the glory and the power the subject of future punishment, have been being true, the question now arises, Is there continuance in well doing seek for it (Rom. Forever, Lord. Amen. unable to eliminate from those teachings that 2 :5-7), they feel that is safe to conclude that ELIZA R. MORTON. any intermediate position at the present time, which was erroneous, retaining that which which is defensible and sufficiently developed the eternal life promised means a life which was true. They boldly question now the cor- to meet the exigencies of the case I We be- shall never end, and that as those only who rectness of these teachers even in the matter lieve there is. seek for it are to obtain the same, it is cer- Our Coufrittufur, of the eternal duration of punishment, as While the great masses of mankind are tain that they never possessed it naturally ; modified to suit the modern theories of greater rushing past the central point of the true faith else there would have been no need of their lenity.